Evening star., 1927-05-06

noon, Manager buthy 11dIIlS AleAS
been doing more than nurse his
severely bruised leg. The field gen
eral of the Washington ball club has
been giving considerable thought TO
his pitching staff, as indeed he has
since the start of the championship
campaign. and Bucky has about con
cIuded he will follow for a time the
general program adopted for the
Yankee series that wound up his
clubs home stand.
According to this, Stanley Coveles-
bje. Fred Marber1y, Hollis Thurston
and Horace Lisenbee will be called
anon TO assume the bulk or tne
hurting burden while the NauohalS
are trekkng about the western part
of the circuit for the next 10 days.
OP course. they will not have to 90
All Of the pitching during the TRIP
II IS not reasonable to suppose they
7,p,Ild he able to do SO, in view OF the
ir-and.out performances of all the
,,,tartet exccpt I.isenbee since the race
to. tbo American League flag started
OCCASIONALLY Harris may sWlng 10
C.eoy-ce MURRAY or Al CroWder as
starting slabman. Garland BrdAtoIl'
+ha c1Ih's ONLY somthpaw with any
,.1e1 amount of big league experience
viii take care of the relief roles ~,
There is a chance that Harris wiz
,.a,.1, his general program a plt W,
morrow in the first Of the "eoteI III n
1ilts Unless the weather IS eSpeclaiiis
favorable to the somewhat uAe - go. 70.
salary wing of the spltpalilnS cot~I Iii
1he slab assignment very Hkely ~, ~,
oo TO Murray. Harris has an ita tue"
George would prove qulte Ss 20
against the Browns ana OH q nG4 Eo,,ts-
such small dimensions as SP ,le+
mans Park. although lately the pa1
ters George has pitched agaill9' no
driven the ball high ana Iar'
When game time arrives tomorrow
+he Nationals are apt to have TWO ol
their. regular outfield in action, II not
1heir .f1rst.string infield combination
sam Rice's sinus trouble has Deen Ie-
1ieved TO a great extent. Stu1Iy stew
ard NAV continue to operate around tiie
second sack, though. Manager harms
declares his right leg, that was so pat
tered by Irving Hadley's pitch the
other day IS quite strong once more
but he NAV not be permitted to re-
1IIrn 10 the game as soon as ne lhIhhs
he will. The pilot and regular seconu
sacl5er has been injured so much TINS
Spring that this time Trainer Mike
Martin and the club physician want
him to be in thoroughly fine trim be
fore he resumes his job. Before the
Nationals left Washington yesterday,
the club physician stated Just now
much Improvement there must De IN
the injured leg before Bucky coulo
take his place on the field again ana
left to Senior Miguel the matter OF
Judging whether the leg was just So
Fifteen games are scheduled during
+l,is Western tour. Three are to be
nIayed with the Browns at st. Louis,
while Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit
each is slated to see the Nationals IN
four games. the cities to be visited IN
the order mentioned. The club VIII
have a day of rest in Detroit, no game
being scheduled for May 20, which VIII
break the playing dates in tordland
evenly. The Western trip ends on
Nav %, and the Nationals will have
10 speed from Detroit to Washington,
for they are down for battle IN
Clark Griffith Stadium with the 1anks
on May %.
Manager Harris decision to employ
MarbeIry as starting hurler is quite
pleasing to the pitcher. Fred is no
stranger To Lu6 Slelb 6lL tihL ChNSNS -
a game. even though American League
fans apparently have an idea that he
has started few. He has been start
ing pitcher in "a games since joining
the club in the early part of the sea
son of 1928 In that year Marberry
started four games and pltched
through in two of them. In 1924 ne
went to the slab at the beginning OF
an engagement IA times and hurled
six complete games. Fred also start
ed world series game against the
Giants that year. In 1925 he was
used exclusively as relief pltcnef'
hut last wear he started five games
and went through three OF them. 80
far this season he has started oniy
once, but has been in 231s innings
and unfortunate enough to be charged
with thpee losses. Although FREQ
neared gthe American League record
for the humber Of games for pitcher
in one season last year when he en-
tered ca contests, he worked only 1873
Innings. His big year with the Ma
tionals was 1924, when he was III 19o
innings.
Two young pitchers, who had been
with the club since training started III
Elorida the middle of February. were
left in Washington last evening.
They are Decatur Jones, who mas
been turned back to the Chattanooga
team of the Southern Association,
and Dick Coffman, purchased from
that club. only TO be farmed out.
Jones. who showed some promise as
a moGndsman when he came up from
the Iookouts last September, seem
ingIv has been unable to get into
proper condition this Spring Con-
man. not yet 20 years old, was very
impressive in Florida training and
those in charge of the Nationals be
lieve that another year in the minors
will prime him for the big show.
Bob Reeves showed yesterday i'm the
second inning Of the game i'll Wash
ington just how good he is around the
third sack. The former Georgia Tech
boy figured prominently in the dis
posal of LaZZeri. Dugan and Collins.
After snaring Tony's hot low liner
Bob went back of the bag for smart
stops of siZzlers from the bats of Joe
and Pat, and followed them with
rifie-shot retiring heaves TO Judge.
National pitchers were tough propo
sitions for Babe Ruth during the
aDkCS SttieS III W dSAiAllS lOij' L liz
Bambino was able To hit them only
for $50 and all of the four hits h'
got in is times at bat in the foul
games were singles. The big fellow
scored twice got three passes ant
whitfield five times. He drove only
two runs across during the series.
Muddy Ruel saw lot of the base
paths during the Nationals home
stand this week. He stepped to tn
plate ~ times in the five engagement
Ii lAIN NIkIQ