The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-30


So. YOU washington fans have
a brief spell OF waiting before you
can tell for yourselves the way
YOUR favorite team is shaping up.
Discounting all the hearsay. which
has seeded up from the South and
eauging the work Of the team as
eve-witnesses rather than rough
secondhand information. A week
from Thursday you will have an
opportunity to judge for yourselves.
And a week from Friday you can
verify it.
But the immediate present takes
the world champions over course
which would discourage the occu.
pants OF the Covered Wagon were
they hitting the trail which con-
fronts the Griffs.
The gypsies say good-by to hos
pitable Florida tonight and board
q prairie schooner for equally grac-
ious Georgia, and whatever the out
come Of today's fifth military post.
Their sixth combat Is scheduled at
Fort Benning tomorrow, the game
starting at 1:3O o'clock in order to
allow the Giants to make q get
away for Memphis. /.
Then the galIoping Griffs carry
on to New Orleans where on
Thursday and Friday the Pelicans
win be given two lessons in major
league diamond calesthenics, by q
team, which, by all standards Of
measurement, IL best fitted Of any
I'm the business to administer it.
The Griffs travel all day WedneS-
day,
The back trek win begin follow
ing the Pelican encounters when
Harris squad moves on to Mobile
for games with the Southern Asso-
citation team next Saturday and
Sunday. At Birmingham. the Giants
will be picked up again one week
from today after which the teams
win hound-dog each other through
Atlanta, Augusta, Washington and
points north.
Including today's game at Jack
sonYtale and the four previous Griff-
Giants spring tonics at Palm Beach.
West Palm Beach, Sarasota, and
Tampa, the petit world series has
completely captivated each vicinity
to which 1t has moved.
The Florida fans know they are
being served with the best in base
ball and acknowledge it on each
occasion with legal holidays, loads
of hospitality, miles Of red, white
and blue bunting, street parades,
fireworks and everything else which
goes with the acclaimfng OF a VIC
tor. The spirit is not only accorded
the world champions, but is also
extended to the vanquished Giants
Of last October. Everyone wants to
zee the famous John McGraw, mas
ter bean Of baseball, and they flock
to see Long George Kelly and Tall
Hank Gowdy, as If indeed they
might both be separate side-shoWs
IN some Inherent carnival.
In fact, no two teams ever
played One-night stands through
the pampas that could boast Of
greater number Of cOlOrful In
and that starts with the great
Walter Johnson and goes right
down through both teams, not
forgetting the sensational Lind
strOm who furnished many Of
the high spots Of last autumn's
classic. Mercenarily speaking
both teams calculate to erase
much Of their spring training
/. over head through this very
magnetism, which vertically
hypnOtizes people into the parks
where they nave been an at
traction.
Yesterdays jaunt down to st.
Augustine, where the Toledo
American Association mudhens
roost, was conducive Of q pleasant
and profitable Sunday from an
athletic standpoint as well as a
historic one. Besides the practice
game, which the Griffmen won by
3 to 1, the players who came here
visited the old Spanish prison, the
old slave block, Ponce de Icons
original fountain Of youth from
which one and all took a sip, the
alligator farm with its 1,0O0.year-oId
diamond alligator, the old
est house in America, and the
narrowest street in the world, which
Is just wide enough to ride a
bicycle up its one-way traffic
system.
Bucky Harris was much elated