San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-21
SENATORS LOOK
|bETTERDESP|TE
SOCIETY STUFF.
Washington Has Worries,
However, Especially
With Pitchers.
TIED UP AT TAMPA
Florida City Signs Crit
fith's Gang to Five
year Contract.
TIED UP AT TAMPA
Ry JOHN Il. FOSTER.

Tampa, Fla, March 21.-After all.
when it comes to the class of the af-
3l!sr the white flannels. white shoes
and Panama hat effects. the after
noon tea. the evening concert and the
occasional dance, the entrec TO all OF
the golf courses. the wide long piazza
on which TO sit and watch the hand
some bellies and their gallant escorts
saunter and salute. the Washington
Club has all the grapefruit league
beaten around the Horn.
The Tampa Bay hotel with its won
derful galleries. its long distance walk
ing effects is the tavern de luxe OF
all the taverns in our new league.
1t is filled with curios and the
Washington club. Some of the curios
are almost invaluable. They were col
lected by the late Henry Bradley
Plant and the hotel is literally an
art center. The Washington club was
collected by Clark Griffith and there
are times when he thinks that II Is
almost invaluable and other times
when he wishes that he were-weli 1t
is not right TO use the word defunct.
because that is an exaggeration OF
the truth.
Says It's Matter OF Pitchers.
Griff says nc has some tiptop young
players and you are inclined TO be-
lieve him when you watch the team
play. George Gibson. the old Pitts
burg catcher. known far and wide as
"Gibby." who quit the task of man.
aging Pittsburg because the players
threw him down, says it is matter
of pitchers with the Senators in 1928.
"Gibby" is coaching the. pitchers and
that is one thing in which he excels.
10 hppn here
to work with the team since it ar
rived at Tampa. and of course when
he does Join he will take his time and
get along in his own way. Mogridge
is going better with Gibson handling
him and if there is as much in Brill
heart as Gibby thinks there is. he
viii make pitcher out of him. Han
kins is being worked and Allan Rus
sell is taking his time.
DOME Bush is following his own
ideas about handling the men and
after a good look at Washington in
action it is safe enough to say that
/. the team will not do much loaflng
6fier Bush. That young man is a
hustler. IL
Tied Up for Five Years.
Tampa has treated Griff very well.
The town has tied him up for five
years and built him new concrete
stand. The folks have fixed up the
ihfield some better than the old in
field even il it is in the same place.
The outfield is poor. This is the
campus which was made famous in
1919 when Ruth. then boy of merry
wears with the Boston Americans, hit
The ball so far toward the Tampa
river that Billy Sunday autographed
it.
The other afternoon Washington
and Boston played the opening game
on the new field and the PLAYERS
seemed determined TO try to beat
Ruth's record for home run. 1t IS
now insisted that Judge hit the ball
further than Ruth. He didn't on the
fly. The ball may have rolled into
suburb which was not touched by the
Ruth hit. but the fly part of the Ruth
hit carried further than the fly part
of the Judge hit.
The Washington team has some eN-
ccllent young players. But 1t IS cas-
ily seen that Judge will play flrst
and Harris will play second. Gagn0n
is being tried at short. lie piaHeu lne
other day against Conlon of Boston.
Roth of them kicked the ball. Boston
seems TO think Conlon is going to
make good. Washington hopes that
Gagnon will make good. Both young
sters can stand another year IN the
minors. but there are no minors 10
whom they may be sent. At thlrd
Coproy is being given a good workolt
for Washington. He is a player Ike
Wild Conroy.
Evans Has Sore Arm.
Evans. the old Cleveland outfieid,
or has been tried at third and WI
GET more trial because he can play
third base. Whether as a STEADY ne
would be up to the demands OF tne
position is something different. EVahs
>kpxan to snap them across the ula-
mond with too much speed 700 cary
in the season. Ordinarily he mas
f;ne arm and when the soreness works
ont of his muscles he will go ahead
with little trouble. 1t will be up TO,
him then to prove how capable he j.
for the position.
Peckinpaugh is almost certain 10
nlay better at short this year than
no did last. He will be better &C
customed to the team. If either Con
row or Evans makes a real player on
the right side of Peckinpaugh, the
Washington infield will be different
proposition when 1t gets down TO
work this year.
Whatever combination Bush tries
in the outfield when he gets ready
to announce his lineup of regulars for
The season is bound to be better than
that of 1922. Owner Griffith seems
to have one of those teams which he
has had SO often in the past. one that
can be depended upon to make fight
for any game il only the pitchers will
come through for him. :,
'The pitchers aren't Ii Ike they used
to be-" he said. Il don't care what
anyone says about pitching. / know
that when i was in the game as
pitcher there wasn't a one of then
against whom l had TO fight who
couldn't pitch to the batter. Darn it:
they knew the batters. Nowadays all
these pitchers are pitching to the
plate. That isn't pitching; that's
throwing the ball at target
Washington will come up with a
better team than last spring if Griff
doesn't have bad luck.