Evening star., 1923-03-23

homo.
Men 20 OUT from the landing in
boats alul come back with huge king
fish. jp ihr coast they catch tarpon.
hobby. the ErooklNn manager sits on
III" sunny porch of his cottage and
I",IS about Erooklyn pitchers who are
bigger than taTpon. For n" mas
"Hthered a wonderful collection of
pitchers in addition to catching few
X ing fish on his own account
Erouklyu had a pitChmg staff last
year. Il was r"puted to he as good
- any and some times 1t was. Some
times 1t was better than any and
some times il was like rhiue0cerus
meat hash In 1928 the conditions
are coming Up again where Brook lNn
viii begin with pitchers even II there
are abundant experiments on the in
field aud perhaps shit in the out
GrimeS in Fine shape.
Grimes seems - he in much better
condition than h. was IN 1?2@. Very
likely il is because he went to Hot
Springs to boil out. II that helped
him 50 has TIL" climate here helped
him. He has he-u lucky enough To
wander under The rays of the sun
that is helping bring all good pitchers
- condition ana the combination of
Hot Springs and tlcarwater-note the
prohibition ViildgeS-will make this
|pithaller Il good pitcher this season
"r il will prove that the Spitoallers
are "ut in the National League.
Shrlver VIII" did So well last year
that Robhy had refused more than
on" offer for him. is another who may
IdVe Il good season. In fact all or
the old timers look good. OF the
. r.rw pitchers there Is Dickerniau. who
WaS with Memphis last year and who
won about tw"-thirdS of his games.
Iveryhod% who had anything TO say
sh"ut him insisted that he would
make 4 good pitcher for Brooklyn.
lie stands more than six feet high.
and he is raw -boued. He has hands
in which he can hid" the bail. and he
has been instructed thus early how
T" hide II when he is on the plate 10
ritrn. Enhhy looked at him five
minutes before he found possibilities
of those better pitchers which Brook
ivH appears able TO pick up when
other teams miss them all around.
OUinCer is ii pitcher who played
ball down here in Florida last season.
and Eohby believes that he can ma ke
real star out of him.
New InficIders Look Good.
Some Of the bail players Of other
clubs against which Brooklyn haS
l.taled We're asked what they thouS H.
rf the three nev infielders who have
been tried out. Most of them inclined
Nrry favorably toward Mullen AT
third He had u good reputation m
the Southern Association last year,
and he is apt /" take 1t along Witn
ljm to Brooklyn and else where.
Stewart. VINO n!t%S second base fer
I'rCukIyn. is lii>e.l down in this par
,f the world because he has p!a&ei
in the south.
the. comhiuatrcr has been stewart
p: second Jimmy Johnston At short
and Mullen at third. with Schleihnc''
q: Little Rock in more recent Prar :
tjccs playing first better than nc did
when he began. He iS slow starter.
IL Is not 50 tall as some first base =
]: -" hut he is tni2k and lands on tn"
bail as If h" meant to put everything
CNeI the fence.
With this pony inield playing for
Brooklyn. noucy with the exception
nf Jimmy Johnston. who may be cap
tain Of the team. it is not possible
70 get a line on what the regulars
may do. But suppose that the pony
iuficld should make good. If. by some
chance of base ball luck. all these
Youngsters are about To blossom into
then better base ball, the Brooklyns
would take the field with team that
would carry n threat with it every
minute, because of its pitchers.
Dodgers Have Been Winning.
That is the only way in which you
can reason out the poise of this pres
ent combination. 1t is true that the
arrangement may collapse before the
season begins: but as il is going it is
evident that Brooklyn is building for
success with combination of young
aud veteran pitchers and with de-
termination to give the younger field
crs every opportunity 10 show what
they can do.
tf.er all. ii is about as sensible
y solution as any that can be found.
because there is 50 much to gain If
only half the arrangement goes right
:,nd there is nothing to be gained
if The team were to keep on as it
Is played and finished last season.
That Brooklyn has power is indi-
Gated by the fact that the Dodgers
have been able to defeat other big
league clubs down here in practice
It is true that they are games for
training only. but the BrooklynS have
been set down by the base gall man
EgerS as the team least likely to
shake themselves together, Yet they
have been winning. There must be
some kind of punch to them, even
in the Florida grapefruit league if
they can do that. The fact that
they have Won has rugged some of
the other managers.
Copyright. 1927