Evening star., 1923-03-08

Coaches Gibson and Altrock haNil
seeing that the player, performed
sure that none overeXerted himself.
With onl! d couple Of notable eA-
ceptions the entire squad was on
hand this morning. Roger Peckin
paugh, of course. is at Hot Springs
taking the water cure to get his
ancient joints oiled up and Is not due
to arrive until = Week from today.
Walter Johnson is another Yet to
show. the serious illness of his young
son having detained him in san Fran
cisco, where the little fellow WAS
taken TO have an operation perform
ed. No word Of any kind has been
received from Barney in a week.
The only other absentee was Bill
t.onroy. vino was expected to arrive
later in the day.
Those who participated in their
first workout yesterday We're Iniield-
er OsSie Bluege. Outtielder George
McNamara and Pitcher Slim McGrew.
Bluege looks better than when he
first joined the club last spring. but
is of the lean. sallow type. Indicative
of sub-normal health Mcnamara,
like Fisher, is of the average height
and weight considered most desirable
for an outiieldcr around five-feet ten
inches and l7O-pound mark.
Mctirew towers 50 far ,,bov. any
OF the other players that he appeared
70 have added even to the great
is even thinner than usual. due 10 the
fact that he is just recovering from
an attack Of influenza. aud because
% this his initial workout vas re-
Strictcd. being confined to u short
session Of fielding buuts after he
warmed up his wing by tossing for
few minutes.
Jimmy O'Neil former Washington
shortstop who has been out of the
game for two years was in the
party which came through from
Washington last evening with Joe
Judge. Goose Gosltn. George MoGridee
aud Chick GaGnon, while Dicl;
Wade came in on the train from Chi
Cago.
Iiczekiah kronkeit zach again was
excused from occupying the rubber
In the batting practice. as was Dad
,Iiankins, the hurlerS. that Hargrave
being Brillheart. IToilingSWorth. Rus
sell. Narmoth and Zachary. Each
officiated in the box. for about ten
minutes. the wand wieIders being
Harris. Lamott". Evans. Fisher.
Rluegc. Mcnamara. LaDan. Charity
Euel. Zachary, Harsrave and Bush
himself. The midget manager cracked
the first ball offered by Warmoth on
d line to left center and proceeded to
pick en- up and lay EN- down in
sprint around to second that COM
pared favurably in speed with any
thing shown by the rockies
Bush also injected himself into the
neIdlng practice for q spell. altGrnat-
Ing with Evans and Bluege at third
base. Tic failed 70 burn any balls
across the diamond but got all his
throws across and with his looping
method proved Il model of accuracy
for his charges. Bluegc was shifted
over TO share duties with Lamotte at
short about midway OF the session
and demonstrated in both positions
that his hands are as mobile as Of
Hore, also that he has lost none of his
ability At getting away throws from
any position. Harris had no opposi-
ton in covering the terrain around
second, and as Altrock was doing the
hitting SchaCht was stationed at the
initial sack. Al demonstrated by his
work there that as first baSeman
he is pretty fair pantomist. He got
no easy chances to handle. Nick saw
20 that
Prior to the practice. Coach Gibson
assembled all the pitchers in the
clubhouse and gave them an carful of
good adNic" about training methods
Taking each mans case separately. he
1oJntcd out the things his observa-
Ton Of their work indicated they
should avoid. told them why. and Of
5ered many suggestions calculated to
5acilitate their progress toward get
ing into good condition. The boys
listened attentatively. Gibby has
sheir confidence
Billy Smith, former manager OF the
shreveport club Of the Texas League
snd other teams in the minors who
1iow is on the Washington pay roll,
got on the job in directing the distrf-
button of handbills advertising the
exhibition games the Bushmen are
so play with National League teams
Jereabout this spring. Smith will act
rs secretary of the club for the pre-
season games and on the Joint tour
Rra
after getting to Washington. will
start out and look over the PLAYERS
With college teams in the eastern
section.
Grin has announced that games
with the Brooklyn club negotiations
3or which have been pending for sew
oral weeks. have been agreed on. The
BuShmen will appear in Clearwater
on Monday. March 10. and the fol-
lowing thursday return game will
bc staged here
Before activities on the field started
yesterday a camera man representing &
ono Of the large film exchanges set
up his machine and took a shot of
the squad. If it is shown within the
course of a week or two in the news
Teel at your faYorite movie house it
will be noticed that Altrock appears
IN two places in the group. Nick ac-
complished this feat by running from
ono end of the line to the other while
j. was being taken.
In the grand handicap sweep stakes
event yesterday that mark ed the
termination of golfing activities for
the Washington players until the
season ends next October Altfock de-
feated Griff, Harris. Rice, Ruel Char
Tity, Schacht, Billy Smith and a.
couple of the newspaper men, in
handy fashion by shooting a snappy
81. Griff, who was placed at scratch,
conceded four strokes to Nick and
turned in a card of SO. Some of the
other totals were hard to compute,
there being no adding machine on the
grounds.
I'm nm editorial appearing in one of
the local papers the municipality of
Tampa is roundly panned for charg-
ing what is termed "a fee for hos
Jitality' in eXacting per cent of the
gate receipts at the exhibition games
played here. This paper contends
shat the presence in Tampa OF g. big
league ball club is a tremendous ad-
~ertising asset to the city. which
could we'll afford to pay the club to
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