Evening star., 1923-03-01

porting for toll at the hour of 10 80,
and thud OF base balls thrown and
dertook the limbering-up process tt
work later on.
Typical Tampa weather prevailed
an almost cloudless sky and faint,
balmy breeze. with a bright sun that
caused the mercury in the thermom
"ter to climb from ~ degrees to the
- mark in the period of an hour and
:, half that the boys frolicked around.
and opened pores that had been
closed since uniforms were laid away
last fail
Take it easy" was the order of the
day, and with Manager Bush on the
Job to enforce ii, assisted by Coaches
Gibson and Altrock, the enthusiastic
juveniles were persuaded to forego
the natural tendency TO cut loose, a
procedure frowned upon in big league
circles the first day out
Bucky Harris. brown as the pro-
verbal berry from many weeks on
The links here, and sam Rice. already
lean and fit from his golting activl-
les in the capital this winter, were
not among those present; not BENG
required to show up for the diamond
Goings until later on.
Another absentee was Pat Charity.
who kent his aforementioned mates
company in chasing gutta percha
balls on an adjacent course. Omar
rity'S arm failed him completely last
season, and great care is 10 be taken
this year to make sure that the come
back he is eSsaying is not hampered
by undue haste in his condltlonlnS.
Patsy believes that the excess or
throwing he indulged in mere lasl
year in working out with the young
hurlerS was contributing cause 70
liz wing going dead. and this mistak e
will not be repeated. the DurlF
backstop has been excused from dolns
any work with the ROCKIES inns
,nf,ine and for couple of weeks
nroI,aI,ly will not be required even TO
lob a bali He will get his legs ano
wind in shape first and then test OUT
his arm by degrees.
None of the men Bush is to boss
dis season looked better on first IN
suection than Jezebel iecuIlseiL
zachary Zach has spent the winter
doing chores out Of doors arouliu ,He :!
III f.rmstead in Noath Kalina and is
Tho picture of health. He is hopelui
;hat the off season rest has removed
he kink in his elbow that potneLeu
him last summer. and is willing TO De.
a Seegar that he VIII WIN l"ch's
games Of ball this year.
Wallace Westinghouse WarmOth.
the sturdy southpaw who mans from II
ittIe Rock by reason of following d
'rursa of sprouts outlined Tor MIN
during the winter by Presldent .Irll-
.ifh. is considerably narrower or oean,
,han when with the Nationals H,s 1as i.
falI and looks hard as na!iS. me
s:tn.p goes for Pete Lapan his Soutn-
ern Association playmate, VINO Is eA
pected. to put UP real scrap ~ ..
berth as mitt wielder. Both tnese
birds have been knocking around IN
,Iln high-class minor circuits long
enoueh TO have absorbed lot OF base
bal. knowledge, and they are Ieeh n
,,,ed rs sure to figure prominently IN
II
Bush's calculations Wneh inc pi
scissors are unSheatneu.
Ana, RusseH, the veteran spitbail
uitcher shows the effects or a WINTER
of idleness in BaltlInore VIZ spnearine.
opportunity Tor eHercIse' aPPe
drawn and pale.
Icbosaphat Beaselievrc Brlllnear1
is another apparently In neeu ,.hf,,I VI
slime and fresh air. The youth1ui
infthander has been rusticatlns IN
Virginia but he is colorless ana
r3bby. \ couple of weeks or poinns
out in this south Florida atmosphere
,,-ilI work wonders with him. but Tor
- ,,d staeer like Russell the process
IN he much slower and considerably
more painful.
This fellow Beach. given names be-
ing HcZekiah Kronkheit, is a Draw
InCking lad but the prize for both
height and displacement goes to Bar
thoIomew Eandegrift Potter. The
Squire" as he is known down IN the
Appalachian League, where Cnartes icy.
the Knoxville club, is looking forward
to graduating from his teens TINS
month. He towers above SIX feet In
height and is uncertain Just now
much over 200 pounds he weighs. A
lavman would guess about ton.
William Waddingt0n Hargrave, back
stop, corralled from the champion
New Haven club of the Eastern
League is a ringer for Lapan in
stature being short and broad, but,
in addition. is red-headed, with snap
py brown eyes and generous COM
niement of freckles He blew in from
his home town, Fort Wayne, Ind.
shortly before midnight.
On the train with him came Jonk-
heer Baskerville Hollingsw orth. Hol-
ungsworth was a team mate of Con-
roy, Wade and Fisher, at Minneapolis,
and halls from Knoxville, Tenn. lie
is a we'll Set-up youngster. dark In
complexion, and according to Grifhth.
hacks as much natural ability as any
young hurler ever picked up by the
Nationals. although he will not be
given a chance to demonstrate it for
p!a4v d"rS yet
practice. for the first day hardly
can be dignified by the term. The
boys spent most of their time playing
r":n', = loosen up their muscles, and
the only bats called into MAY were
iit.Izeu 4cr the purpose of propelling
bunts. calculating to get &C.
cumulations of rust out of
their respective spines. All Of the
work today was confined to the
race track in front of the stand, and
the grass plots adjoining the dia-
mond, for Mike Martin would permit
nary a spike to mar the surface of
the grounds he has been coddling for
several weeks now.
Arriving early In January: the
doughty trainer rain r. of Of tnedtiaa the fna
foot ball games staged there in the
fall and when the concessions here in
connection with the south Florida fair
pulled up stakes in midwinter the
infeld was wreck. Miguel has had
TO practically rebuild the entire dia-
mond He has done a good job of
it, but is anxious to give the newly
sown grass a few more days to sprout,
and until he gives the word any one
who disregards the keep off" sign
will be venturesome SOUL
The new grandstand is an even more
commodous structure than first re-
ports Indicated 1t has a capacity of
$500 about one-third of it box seats.
and judged by the interest manifested
in the initial workout of the Griffmen
today, may be filled on more than one
occasion some three weeks hence when
the schedule of exhibitions with the Ma
iional League clubs gets under way.
The new dressing quarters for the play
rrs are ample and modern. Only the
water heating attachment remained to
be fixed this morning, and when this
was done in time to make the customary
she4erS available. the old-timers in
the party voted the facilities provided
frr the Nationals this year the best they