Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13


first encounter of the training
i campaign with another big league
ball club, the nationals today
were pointing for the two-game series
to be played at Avon park with the
Cardinals.
The National League champions are
to be tackled tomorrow and Friday aft
ernoons and Manager Walter Johnson
has an idea they will be tougher Gus
toners than were the Braves yesterday
at ST. Petersburg. SO he chased his
charges through an exceptionally siren
uous drill this morning at Plant Field.
The short series with the Cards will
bring into action for the first time
this year two more of the Nationals
pitching staff. The program that john
son has tentatively prepared for his
moundsmen calls for Irving Hadley and
Arch Campbell to toll three innings
each tomorrow.
These fellows have had more than
two weeks of training now and the
pilot figures they are ready to show
something in hurting way, even though
they still need more conditioning be-
fore they will be at the peak Of form.
CantreIl Also Listed.
Sharing the mound burden with Had
ley and Campbell in the first of the
games with the st. Louis Senior
Leaguers will be Guy Cantrell. who
pitched against the Tampa team here
last Sunday. Long Jim Weaver and
Paul Hopkins. others who showed their
wares here the first day of the week.
are slated to start again Friday. The
third pitcher for the final tilt in Avon
Park probably will be the left-handed
Lloyd Brown, who broke into the battle
against the Braves yesterday at st.
Pete.
Those of the Nationals hurting staff
may expect an abundance of work from
now on, according to johnson. With
the club suffering from pitching short
age, all of the boys may expect to get
into two games week when as many
as five games are scheduled within
seven days and some of them are going
TO be sent into as many as three en-
gagements in a week.
Really this pitching shortage is a
serious handicap in some ways. The
pitchers have so much to do during the
daily batting drills that picking for
games hurlerS who have had as much
as two days respite from mound serv-
ice is next to impossible. To date, john
son has had at his command but 10
pitchers and some of these he is forced
get fit to take the hill.
Johnson had looked for a pitching
staff stronger numerically after the first
week OF practice here, but Paul McCul-
lough's illness and Sam Jones refusal
TO accept the terms offered by the club
upset the pilots calculations. Now
johnson has little hope of getting much,
II anything, from Mccullough this year.
Latest word from New Castle, Pa,
McCullough's home. is that he is too
III even to answer telephone and that
he is making little progress toward re.
CoVery. johnson reasons from this
gloomy report that the expensive pur-
chase from Toledo of the American
Association could not possibly get into
good pitching trim within three months,
If in that time even, should he get up
and about within another week.
johnson intends taking to Avon Park
about the same squad, excepting the
hurlers that journeyed yesterday to
st. Petersburg, and starting the same
lineup that opened fire against the
Braves. These starters will play through
the greater part of each game, too, Wal
Ter has announced.
Cronin to Be Used.
Joe Cronin will have more of
chance than Sam Rice to break into the
pastiming, it seems The young short
stop may relieve Ossie Bluege for an
inning or two in each of the games. but
Rice Is slated to play in part of but one
Goose Goslin, Joe Judge and Buddy
Myer will not make the trip to the
Cardinals camp unless Johnson changes
plans at the last minute. They now
are under orders to remain in camp here
for sound workouts tomorrow and Fri
DAY, that they may be ready for action
when the Braves are encountered here
Saturday and Sunday. johnson has not
definitely decided to send all these vet
Grams into this home series, but in all
llkelihood Myer will play in both games
while Judge and Goslin may see few
innings of service Saturday or Sunday
Three young hurlers of the WASH
ington squad showed their wares for
the first time this year in Yesterdays
game and were rather impressive. Bob
Burke, Adolph Liska and Lloyd Brown
performed for three innings each in
the order mentioned and allowed the
Braves but six safeties and four passes
Burke, In his three innings, pitched to
only 10 batters. The lean left-hander
granted but one hit. A single made by
George Sisler after two were out in
the opening rounds. Bob did not waste
may pitches. His control being of high
order.
Liska plainly was pressing when he
first stepped to the hill for the fourth
round and walked the first two men
TO face him. He got out of trouble tenn
porarily when Lester Bell drilled into
a double play. But Eddie Farrell, the
next batter, cracked a double to right
that drove In Boston's first run and
Eddie got home with tying run that
proved his clubs last when Pete Voter
made poor chuck after picking up
Earl Clark's hot smash
The purchase from Minneapolis
breezed through the fifth inning In
great style, but after retiring the first
batter up in the sixth. passed a man
and was nicked for a single Then Liska
checked the Braves himself, taking
Founders hit by the next two batters
and getting his men at first base
Generally, when Liska got his under