Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-18

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, March 1S.- Manager
George Moriarty of the Detroit Tigers
is in a position this year to emulate
Hughie Jennings feat of 20 years ago
in lifting the team out of the slOughs
to a pennant.
jennings took hold of the Detroit
managerial reigns in 1907, after the
club had gone pennantless for 20
years, and piloted it to three league
championships in a row.
Moriarty faces the same situation
He has team with abundant ability
The players for the most part have
finished regularly around the top in
the individual standings, and yet the
team has continued in a slump Tor
the past several years.
Base ball fans are specializing as TO
whether Moriarty can succeed in lead
ing the squad to heights by his sys-
tenn of applying velvet where Cobb
failed with. sand paper.
NEW YORK. March IS CP).-The
doubtful honor Of being the last
athlete to arrive in the New York
Yankee training camp at St Peters
burg. Fla. will go to Herb Pennock,
slender southpaw. if he decides to
desert the holdout ranks this season
Earl Combs. outfield, dropped his
suitcases in the Yanks hotel lobby
yesterday and called for bats and a
uniform. He was late through the
necessity of being separated from his
tonsiS. Is
The Giants entertained the Car
dinals at Sarasota. Two home runs
in the final frame were necessary to
| enable st. Louis to win, to 0.
Frisch and Hornsby, snapped by
| the Giants and Cards respectively,
| faced their old mates for the first
| time. Hornsby got lone hit and
| E'riSch none at all.
| Brooklyn threw Columbus for an
| SO loss at Clearwater.
BOSTON, March 10 R).-The Red
Sox have won three straight exhibition
games. They beat the Pelicans at
New Orleans yesterday, to 2. Jacob
son ripped off two fine doubles and
single and Regain connected for a
smashing right field triple.
PHILADELPHIA March Is R).-
Scarcity of pitchers Is hampering the
Philadelphia Nationals. So handi.
capped are they in this respect that
the Columbus American Association
team has been asked to cancel an
exhibition game scheduled for Plant
City on Monday. There are ii pitchers
in the Phillies' camp at Bradenton,
Fla. Four are on the sick or injured
list and several others are not FAR
enough ahead to work in regular
contest.
Yesterday the Athletics were de-
feated by the Boston Nationals. l3 TO
5, in seven-inning contest at ST:
Petersburg, after the first game had
been forfeited to the Braves by UNI
pre Frank Wilson of the National
League, when Ty Cobb and Kid
Gleason refused to leave the field
when ordered by him to do so. wilson
left the American League after q
mix.up with the former Detroit man
ager in 1921. President Ban Johnson
having decided that the umpire was
wrong.
CHICAGO, March Is H).-Manager
Mccarthy is a bit peevish over the
epidemic of charleyhorses and lame
arms that still prevails among the
Cubs, who have been at work almost
three weeks. He said that in the old
DAYS players did road work in the
Winter time to tougher up their legs
and that pitchers worked out in cell
lars. if necessary, in order to report
in condition. The Cubs moved to Los
Angeles from Catalina Island today
for a three game series with Los
Angeles and Hollywood.
The White Sox also took a jaunt
from Shreveport to Fort Worth, Tex,
where they will do battle with Jake
Atz' Texas Leaguers In the Texas
city they met an old team mate, Dick