New Britain herald., 1925-01-19
OLD TIMERS TAKEN
 ON WITH Cn''
Griffith SiSns Them !.
 Others Sign Youngsters
By Tho Associated Pross.

Washington, Jan. 19, -- With the cry going up in other cities for young blood, Clark Griffith, proud l persident Of worlds championship | baseball, anxious to hold his team at
 the top of the heap. has thrown all
 precedent to the winds and injected
 into his lineup a sprlnkling of tried
 veterans for the 1925 campaign.
 Manager Stanley Harris will take t1 Tampa for spring training, pitching staff whose mainstays have
 been for years familiar figures on Imaior league fields In addition 10
 Walter Johnson. who now is ex- ipected to join the team as a result
 of his failure to buy Pacific Coast
 franchise, the mound crew will in" clude George Mogrdge and Tom Zachary, last years southpaw bul- Warks: Dutch Ruether, obtained
 from l-,ooklyn; Stanley Covelcskie, bought from Cleveland; Vean Gregg. | the veteran from Seattle; Fred Mar
 berry. who did such brilliant work last year IS relief hurler; Curley Ogden, Joe Martina. Paul Zahniser, Benson Brillheart, Allan Russell, an- other relief pitcher; Kelly, a recruit from Memphis, James McNamara, obtained from Wichita, Kansas, at fancy price and several other young sters.
 The club, in the opinion of both Griffith and Harris, has been great ly bolstered in reserve strength. Weakness in this respect almost lost ! the worlds series for the team, and immediately after the championship they began efforts to build up a ma chine which would go along more smoothly in the face of injuries.
 Mike McNally, former Yankee substitute inhclder, was obtained in deal with the Boston Red SoX Tn which Third Baseman rrothro was sent to Boston. Spencer Adams. a Pacific Coast league shortstop also was bought. These two, with Judge, Harris, Peckinpaugh. BIuege and Shirley will make up the infeld eligibles
 In the outfeld, Rice. Goslin, Me Neely, Matthews Karlyle, leading Southern association hitter last sea son, Leihold and Rhinehart, South Atlantic league recruit, are available. Rice and Goslin will have no trouble holding their jobs, but McNeely is expected to have hot fight on his hands, despite his great work of last season and his s50,000 hit that won the last game of the worlds series. Carlyle, especially, is expected to furnish keen competition for reg ular place in the lineup,
 Harris will take the veterans of his club first to Hot Springs for a. preliminary period of workouts, as he did last year. This plan. he be- lieves. permitted the club to enter the season in better condition than for several years. It also brought the veterans up to an even standing with the younger men in this re- spect.
 The Tampa training quarters have been used by the Washington club for several years and President Grif- filth has given no indication of q de- sire to change. The Tampa club of Ithe Florida state league has been able to put teams in the field for practice with the nationals in years past and the plan has worked well for both clubs.
 John McCraw's New York Giants will furnish q good part of the oppo- sition for the Nationals on the spring training jaunt northward. the two teams resuming hostilitios where they left off ill the worlds series. After coming through that series with a club handicapped by weak ness, Manager Harris feels confident that he will duplicate his success, He believes that the club is great deal stronger than last year
 Prospects of the team depend great deal on the effectiveness Of Johnson, who has reported himself in good condition. It is pointed out, however. that Harris will have four veteran left handlers, Ruether, Gregg. Mogridge and Zachary, to put against teams which have shown a weakness for portside hurlers, and much is expected by Washington fans from this combination.