Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
YOUNG SDUTHPAW
MAY PROVE STAR
Adds Control to a Good
Curve-campbeII, Burke
Blank Jacksonville.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

Uses to be one of the shining lights of
the Johnsonian mound corps this year.
He is Lloyd Andrew Brown, native Of
Beeville, Tex, and base ball habitant
various places in the United States and
Mexico.
After clubbing through the game for
more years than many an Older player
has served in the pro ranks, Lloyd An
drew appears to have found himself
Walter johnson, his manager, thinks So
But better than, that the left-handed
Lloyd Andrew thinks so, and the abil-
ity he has displayed in training this
Spring, plus confidence, ought to carry
the young fellow far in his chosen pro-
feSsion.
At present Brown is idling, for only
yesterday Trainer Mike Martin lanced a
boil on the pitchers leg, and one does
not care to do much just after one has
boil lanced. 1t was no ordinary boil
that Brown carried, but highly devel-
oped one, about as big as a horse
chestnut, so it may be day or two be-
fore he swings into action again. How
ever, he is likely to be seen in one Of
the games here with the Barons and
the Giants. Brown is a determined
young man these days-not one to let
anything like boil keep him idle Tor
long.
This is Browns second year with the
Nationals. The young pitcher who
came up from Memphis to the Wash
ington Club didn't perform so impress
Sively last season. He was in q games
and toiled to record OF victories
and as many defeats He went the route
against the Browns. He started against
the Indians and beat them in game
stopped by rain in the seventh. In
other starts he failed to finish.
Handicapped Last Year.
In fact, Brown was so ineffective
that even he often wondered why Bucky
Harris, then manager kept him on
the club. The young left-hander really
never was in shape all season. He
started with a sore arm, couldn't do
much with a curve ball that formerly
had been his main asset, and, worst Of
all, lacked control. 1t was simply
poor year all around for Brown.
This time it promises to be different.
The boil he is getting rid of now is
the only physical handicap suffered in
training. He reported at the Tampa
Camp in pretty good shape, worked
faithfully, and when the exhibition
schedule began probably was somewhat
ahead of all others Of the National
throwing his curve better than ever
and has mastered control, too, it seems.
ably effective.
Lately he has been experimenting with
the screw ball" that has made Gar
land Braxton, a fellow left-hander, SO
effective and soon may be able to add
it to his pitching repertoire. Brown
already commands considerable respect
from opposing batters. If he masters
the screw BALI he should be remark
Manager johnson, who never saw
Brown work until this year, wakes en-
thusiastic in discussing Browns pros
poets. The pilot thinks the young
1eft-hander now has about all needed to
make fine pitcher and expects to get
much from him. Walter looks upon
Brown as capable pitcher mechanical
ly, with plenty of courage and shrewd
knowledge of his art. And that's how
others who have seen the pitcher per-
form this Spring regard him.
Brown is what the profession terms
good ball player" Not only can he
pitch, but he can make good showing
in an infield job, and he's no SLOUGH as
bat. He apparently is good player to
have around a club. He's been in the
paid ranks actually for eight years
After playing town and high school ball
around Beeville he went to Tampico,
Mexico, at the age of Is In 1921 and
put in two years in the Oil League there
as a member of the Freeport Oil Co.
nine Then his friend Curtis Walker, a
fellow townsman of Beeville, got Brown
a chance with the Phillies. Walker,
now a Cincinnati outfelder, was with
the Quaker City team at that time.
Brown trained with the PhillieS at
LeeSburg, Fla, and was farmed to VII
Transport of the New York-PennSyl-
vania League. He was with them long
enough to win eight and lose eight
games before he fell i'll and had to
return to his home. That was in July,
1928. The Phillies released him the fol-
lowing Winter and he hooked up with
Paris in the East Texas League. He
won Is games and lost IL with this
seventh place club and was sold to
Wichita Falls of the Texas League.
Purchased by Dodgers.
He finished the season with this team,
but in the Spring of 1925 he developed
a sore arm and was shipped to Ard
more Of the Western Association. For
Ardmore he won II games and lost /,
and on July was sold to the Dodgers
for $4,000. He remained with Brook
Ign to the end Of the season.
He went to the Dodgers 1925 train
ing camp at Clearwater, Fla, q week
after he had his tonSils removed and
was in such a rundown condition he
could make no Roadway. Brooklyn sent
him to Memphis, but while playing the
outfield for the Chicks on June is he
broke an ankle. After the break healed
he found himself with Knoxville, for
which he played first base and outfield
to the finish of the 1925 campaign. For
Knoxville he batted .309 in 70-odd
games.
At the end Of the 1926 season Brook
Ign recalled him, only to sell him to
Memphis, where, in 1927, he pitched
under the management Of Clyde Milan,
now with the Nationals, to record of
10 victories and defeats: Upon Milan's
advice Brown was purchased by Clark
Grifith for the Washington club, and
now, it seems, Brown is about to prove
Milan's advice was sound.
Two other Washington pitchers In
dicated by performances yesterday that
they may be quite helpful to the club
when the American League season gets
under way. Arch Campbell, who toiled
six innings, and Bob Burke, who went
through three, while the Nationals were
scoring their first shut-out Of the train
ing campaign in 4-to-0 game at jack
sonville against the Tars Of the South
eastern League, were exceptionally Ell
fectiye.
Campbell was reached for a single by
the first man to face him, then did not
Weld another safety until the sixth.
when the lead-oh batter again singled.
Arch issued but two passes and he
famed four. Burke granted pass In
the seventh, was whacked for two SIN
giles in the eighth and double IN the
ninth, but one Of the hits OF him was
somewhat fiuky. Both Campbell ana
Burke threw deceptive curves, hooking
the ball much better than they had IN
earlier performances this Spring.
washington batted against two pitch
ers for IL safeties. AL but one came