Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
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MACK PICKS TEAM
TO OPPOSE CARDS
Takes Club to Fort Myers.
Higgins Says Yanks Not
Well Advanced.

BY the Associated Press.
~ T. PETERSBURG, Fla, March T.
Miller Higgins believes the YAM
y KEGS are not progressing as they
~ should.
I'VE ought to be farther adj
vanced," he said. This cold has made
it impossible for the pitchers to do any
really hard throwing. 1t means that the
rest of the week we will have to crowd
seven days work into three. That means
danger to arms and legs"
FORT MYERS, Fla, March (P).-
Manager Connie Mack took personal
charge of the Athletics today when
squad of 10 players set off for Avon
Park for the opening game OF the sea-
son with the st. Louis Nationals.
He announced the following starting
lineup: Orwall, first base; Dykes, second
field; Foxx, third base; Haas, center;
Miller, right; HasSler, shortstop; Yerkes,
Breckenridge and Walberg, pitchers.
A half dozen others, Mack said, would
get into the game.
BRADENTON, Fla, March (P).-
Charley Ruffing, a 24-year-old pitcher,
who showed great deal of promise two
years ago. only to lose IS games while
winning 10 last year. has ambled into
the Red SoX camp here carrying 23O
pounds and determination to do bet
ter
He explained that what he needed
most was better control, but Manager
Bill Carrigan evidently decided that his
extra poundage demanded attention first,
so he had him working hard picking up
hunts under boiling sun.
DALLAS. Tex, March 7 (P)-Man-
sger Lena" Blackburn appears to have
decided already as to the makeup OF
his White Sox infield.
Blackburn has intimated the lineup
will be: Autry. catcher; Shires, first
base; Kerr, second base; Kamn, third
base, and Cissell. shortstop. A merry
fight is waging for the outfield posts,
however.
With Bill cissell doing most of the
hitting, the Regulars" defeated the
Coos" to 8, in the first practice
game yesterday Eli Ward, big right
handler from Ypsilanti, Mich, State
Normal. was the goat" of the game. He
toiled four rounds for the "Goofs." walk
ing seven, hitting one, and allowing four
| hits.
NEW ORLEANS, March Z P).-
Manager Roger Peckinpaugh of the
Cleveland Indians has placed full re-
sponsibility for every ball thrown upon
| his catchers, with the liberty to rebuke
| the pitchers if they go wrong.
Hard-boiled is the word he has passed
| along, with the idea that man can't
cordially pass compliments and conso-
| lations while he's sweating to win a
ball game.
The pitchers today were in the
stiffest workout they have seen with
| the passing of bad weather.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March
Z OP).-The first major casualty of the
| Browns became known yesterday when
| George Stanton, likely looking rookie
| first baseman, was ordered to st. Louis
| to undergo an operation to remove a
1 bone chip from his knee. The injury
| occurred@seyeral days ago.
| Batting of the Browns has shown I'M
provement as the players work out
under baking sun. Tom jenkins
up with the Red Sox couple of years
ago, made the longest hit yesterday
Jenkins was with Wichita Falls last
year.
| PHOENIX, Ariz., March 7 [P).-Witll
| the non appearance of Roy johnson
outfielder obtained from San Francisco
Manager Bucky Harris of the Detroit
Tigers was in anything but iovial
mood today. <f
Johnson, who is holding out for a
share of the purchase price, had prom
ised to report yesterday, but did not
and Harris began to wonder who would
play in the outfleld with Harry Rice
and Jonathan Stone.
The daily workouts are continuing.