Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17


ENGAGEMENTS have been arranged
likely the club will play more than
The early camp at Biloxi. Miss,
will be the scene OF only three
training tits yet to be arranged.
and but nine games are listed
definitely for the time the Ma
tionals will make Chattanooga,
Tenn, their training base. Seven
other games are slated for play OH
the trip northward from Chat
tanooga and in Griff1th Stadium
here.
The training campaign is to start at
Biloxi, the site recently selected by the
washington officials as their clubs first
Spring base, on Wednesday, February
26, when the batterymen are to report
in the city on the Mississippi Gulf
coast. Inflelders and outflelders are to
Join the pitchers and catchers there on
: Sunday March o, and the entire lot
will head for Chattanooga on March
90 or 81.
Start at Chattanooga March %.
From March % through April Chat
tanooga will be the Nationals training
base. The club will leave the Ten
nesSee camp during this period only
twice, according to President Griffith's
plans for the training session. Short
trips to Birmingham, Ala, and Mem
phis for contests with the Southern
Association clubs Of these towns will be
made.
Thus far only one major league foe
appears on the Nationals exhibition
schedule, the Boston National League
club. Manager Walter Johnsons
charges are to hook up with the Braves
in a series of five games in as many
days, starting at Chattanooga on April
6. other clubs listed for competition
are. the Chattanooga, Memphis and
Birmingham outfits of the Southern AS
ISOLATION and the Baltimore and Roches-
ter aggregations Of the international
League.
= Griffth has agreed to show his club
in games to the Biloxi populace three
times during the brief sojourn in the
Mississippi city. No opponents have
been picked for the Nationals in these
games as yet, although 1t is likely New
2 orleans Of the Southern Association
will be encountered in one of them.
Play Int Clubs Here.
81 A nomenclature series with the
Baltimore Internationals has been list |
ed, the Nationals to play in Baltimore
on the way UP from the South, then
clash with the orioles. The next day
Rochester will be the foe here in the
Anal engagement of the training season.
A game with some Southern Associa-
ton Club may be arranged for March
81. It's q long rail jump from Biloxi
to Chattanooga, and, If possible, Presi-
dent Grifith will make date with some
club to split the train ride. In the
event the game is scheduled, the Ma
tionals will quit the Biloxi camp on
March 20. Otherwise they will stick
around the Mississippi city until the
next day.
The definite schedule calls for only
nine games in the first three weeks fol-
lowing the assembly of the entire club.
and but six of these have actually been
listed. Not until April 4 will the Ma
hibitions. Four Sunday dates have
been filled and President Grifith hopes
to get one Sunday game for Biloxi
This schedule may be enlarged, but
the Washington prexy seems well salts
fed with it as 1t is. He intimates he
wants his charges next Spring to get
more personal attention in training
than possibly could be given them in
exhibition tits.
Games Now Listed.
The dates actually listed for the Ma
tionals' Spring exhibitions follow:
March 22-Chattanooga, at Chat
tan00ga. Tenn.
March 23-ChattanOOga, at Chat
tanOOga, Tenn.
March 26-Chattanooga, at Chat
tanOOKa, Tenn.
March 29-Memphis, at Memphis,
Tenn.
March 3O--Memphis, at Memphis,
Tenn.
April 2-Chattanooga, at Chatta-
nOOga. Tenn.
April 4-Birminghsm at Birmirg-
ham, Ala.
April 5-Birmingham, at BirminE-
4. ham, Ala.
April 6-Boston, at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
April Boston, at Charlotte, N. C.
April 6-BOstOn, at Winston Salem,
n. C.
April S-Boston, at Norfolk. Va.
April 10-Boston, at Richmond,
Va.
April 11-BaItimOre, at Baltimore,
Md.
April 12--BaItimore, at Grifith
Stadium.