The Washington times., 1929-02-01
MARTIN OFF,
ONN)RRON.
FOR TAMPA
BY Kirk Miller

Preceding Manager Walter
johnson, Catcher Muddy Ruel
and parcel Of rookie pitchers
by three weeks, Trainer Mike
Martin entrains for Tampa to-
morrow afternoon at 2:30
aboard the Orange Blossom
Special.
The following Saturday Ground.
keeper Emil Haisman will board
: the crack Seaboard Air Line RATHER
for the same destination and in
such a manner the clutch of the
1929 baseball season is slowly being
engaged with the gears, as they say
over at the automobile show.
Martins main business In Tampa
during the next three weeks will
be to act as liason officer between
the owners of the Plant Field, the
beautiful baseball villa in the Smoker
City, and the Washington ball club,
which annually trains its team
within those exquisite precincts.
1t seems that the Florida State
Fair which annually disports itself
at the same location Immediately
raises havoc with the locale, locker
rooms, outfield and infield and it
requires an expert hand, such as
Mike Martin, to put the baseball
house in order down yonder.
Then, after Mike has all the
dirty work done. along will
come this HaiSnan fellow, who
knows more about growing
grass than the State OF Ken
tucky itself, who will nurture
the outfield and tOp.s0h the IN.
field so that the Young Griff-
men can't blame the terrain
for any failure to field and run
bases.
Meanwhile, President Clark Grif.
fifth is strongly silent about some
very important business matters
outstanding between himself and
Goose Goslin, Buddy Myer, Jack
Hayes and Spencer Harris.
Ten days ago the idea was broad.
cast that the first three of that
quartet were dissatisfied with their
contracts, and therefore refraining
accepted baseball parlance, this
species of athlete distinguished
from their more aniable brethren,
are usually identified as holdouts.
Griffith declares however. they
are not holdouts, and it can only
be concluded he has invented. some
unique and unfamiliar classification
for them which does not reflect
so directly on the size of the sSl-
ary offered. It does seem strange
to the casual observer that Dazzy
Vance, of Brooklyn, who is not
satisfied with Wiibert Robinson'S
idea of commensurate salary, is
an admitted holdout; that the same
is true in the case of Gordon Coch-
rane, the Athletic catcher. who
wants more money than originally
proffered, yet Goslin and Myer and
Hayes and Harris are not holdouts
in the interpretative mind of Presi-
dent Griffith.
It may be that baseball
admits of player having one
status in a certain city which
doesn't necessarily hold good in
another. A player may refuse
to sign a New York contract,
for instance, because he wants
more maEunna and be hold
out in the eyes Of the world.
A washington player holding the
same attitude toward the instru-
ment which Is supposed TO tie him
to his club lis rose by another
name perhaps he may even be
thorn in the side OF the club Off
cials or a pain in the neck to
them,
Be that as II may, the Tampa
telegraphic facilities moan not ,of
the signing of any of that quartet
to which, incidentally, may be
added the name OF Catcher Ed
Kenna. who has some ideas OF his
own as to what the hired hands
should receive for the business of
backstopping over stretch of six