Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-14

By the Associated Press.
~ ETROIT, March 14.-Marty Nc
AIanus, obtained by Detroi.
from the 81. Louis Browns. is
~ showing great form at the
Tiger training camp in San
Antonio, Tex, and indications are that
he will be regularly assigned to second
base.
Manager Moriarty is particularly
pleased with McManus' work and pre-
diets the ex- Brown will have his best
season this year.
McManus obtained four hits out of
five times up in an exhibition game
with San Antonio yesterday.
Tiny owens, a recruit pitcher hiss
been released to Minneapolis of the
American Association by Moriarty.
NEW YORK, March IA CP)-Bob
MeuseI, heralded rs half of the Yankee
hoIdout problem along with Herb Pen
mock, has arrived at st. Petersburg
Fla, from the movie studios of Cali
fornia, but says he is no holdout at
at all.
Meusel and Miller higgins, his
manager, played Sunday golf on the
same course, but did not meet.
After three weeks of training the
dozen rookie heads in John McGraw $
camp at Sarasota. The lineup appears
to be Terry, first; Hornsby, second;
Jackson, shortstop; Lindstrom, third,
with DevOrmer and Cummings back
stops and Lebourveau, Rousch Har-
per, OFT, Moore and Miller splitting
outfield duty.
At Clearwater, Otto Miller, assistant
to Manager Robinson of Brooklyn.
insists the club has the finest team
spirit he has noticed for years.
CLEVELAND, Ohio. March IA up.
Manager Jack McCallister has set
about to remedy weakness displayed
in the Cleveland Indian batting in
practice games at Florida training
camps last week. While the Tribe
broke even in four games played, he
is not quite satisfied with results of
the first two weeks training.
Joe Sewell is expected back in the
regular lineup this week and will
undoubtedly add some batting punch.
McCallister is expected to farm out
10 rockies from the Tribe this year,
starting the season with 20 players.
CHICAGO, Ill. March IA LA).-The
Chicago White Sox opened their
Spring training exhibition series with
the home club at Shreveport with a
1913 victory yesterday, featuring two
of the Sox new pitchers, Ted Blan-
kenships brother Homer and Charles
DaYnade, a Southern League south
paw who promises to stick. Alphonse
Thomas finished out the game.
With the stick the Sox demon
strated they are growing effective.
gathering Is hits. Ike Boone. center
G1J 10
Johnny Mostirs fiance, Margaret
Carroll of Whiting, Ind, is expected
here today to cheer up the Sox cen
ter fielder, who is recovering from a
dozen ugly razor wounds. self inf1ict-
ed last Tuesday. Physicians say Mos
til is in fine shape physically. but
still is moody.
The Chicago Cubs are back at their
Catalina Island camp today. with
three disasters on the books, written
by the Hollywood and Los Angeles
Coast Leaguers.
PHILADELPHIA, March IA CP).-
The Philadelphia American and Ma
tional League base ball clubs today en-
tered one of the most strenuous weeks
of their training season in Florida
camps. Five exhibition games with
major league rivals We're scheduled
for the Athletics and four for the
Phillies.
The Athletics program calls for con-
tests with the Cardinals today and to-
morrow, the first game to be played at
Avon Park and the second at Fort
Myers. On Thursday and Friday the
Athletics battle the Boston Nationals
in st. Petersburg, and on Saturday
they meet the Phillies at Bradenton.
In addition to the Athletics, the
Phillies meet the New York Giants,
Buffalo Internationals and st. Louis
Cardinals during the week.
ST. LOUIS, March IA P).-Vice
President Branch Hickey of the Card
inals, has left the Avon Park camp
and rumor has IT he is en- route to the
homes of the two holdouts, Pitcher
Flint Rhem and Shortstop Tommy
Thevenow.
1t is feared they are losing condition
by their absence; the assignment of
positions is also up in the air because
Of uncertainty, regarding the pair.
TEn Waite