Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
GRIFF NOT HARSH
DEALING PENALTY
Base Ball Law Is Followed
by Nationals Magnate.
Team Shows Punch.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

Will have his pocketbOoK MT even
though he decides to sign on the
dotted line and don the uniform
of the Nationals again.
It is now two weeks past the time the
Goose was ordered to report at training
camp and less than three weeks to the
opening of the American League cam
paign. It is held unlikely that Goslin,
should he accept the clubs offer and
Join the squad even tonight could get
into proper playing form before the flag
race starts. And President Clark Grit
fifth has intimated that the Goose now
will have to train at his own expense
should he fall in line and would not be
put on the pay roll that starts April IA
until he satisfies his manager he is in
condition to take the field.
Grin Not Drastic.
Griffith has let it be known he does
not intend to deal harshly with Goslin.
He will infiict no special punishment on
the player, who has not even been in
communication with the club since re-
fusing to report. The Washington ex-
ecutive intends only to follow major
league base ball rules in dealing with
the Goose. These rules provide that:
ANY player under contract or reSer-
walton to any club who shall fail to re-
port within three days at the point he
shall be ordered to report may be fined
500, provided that the club shall give
the player at least one weeks notice of
the time he is to report. Any player
not reporting as above ordered must get
into condition at his own expense and
his salary not to commence until he is
In condition to the satisfaction of the
club manager to participate in cham
pionship games"
H~iR -
quite lenient In GoSlin'S case. Under
the rules he could have imposed the
500 fine on Goslin nearly two weeks
ago. He held OF, however hoping to
hear from the baking player. There
has been no word, though so the club
executive thinks it well to take full ad-
vantage of the major league code. Now
It looks Is though Goslin, should he de-
eide TO sign, will Suffer more of q cut
in his income than if he had accepted
earlier the contract which called for
$4,000 less than the Goose got last sea-
son.
Old Fox Adamant.
Griffith hopes Goslin will see At to
sign. But it is fairly certain the Prexy
will not yield point in his present
stand to get the player back in the
ranks. The issue Is solely up to the
far as the Washington Ball Club is con-
cerned, it seems.
Having played three exhibition games
In as many days the Nationals now will
be out of competition until Wednesday,
when they will engage the Lookouts
here again. They will not be idle in
the meantime, though, for Manager
Walter johnson scheduled morning
drills for today and tomorrow. The
workouts will be long, too. Although
the air here is more than cool at pres
ent, there is plenty Of sunlight and
dry field for practice. So the pilot plans
TO have his men make up some of the
time lost during the damp and foggy
spell that curtailed the daily toll during
the latter part of the clubs stay in
Biloxi.
The Nationals now have a record of
four wins and one loss for their exhibit
ton work to date, registering their
fourth win yesterday in Engel Stadium
when they trimmed the LookoutS for
the second successive time. The score
was to 1. The club showed more OF
q punch than previously, too. For the
first time in the exhibitions it was able
innings when it had runners on the
paths. At that, though, Is Nationals
were stranded.
In all, the johnson band collected IA
safetieS OF Jack Knott, right-hander,
and Ed Wineapple, the southpaw slab
man optioned by the Nationals to Chat
tanooga. Eight of the hits and two runs
were made off Wineapple, who pitched
the last five innings of the game. Ed
was much faster than his predecessor
| on the hill, but inclined to be some
what wild. None Of the four passes ne
! issued, though. figured in the Nationals
Eun-making.
Three Pitchers Effective.
Carlos Moore, Ad Liska and Lloyd
Brown each hurled three innings for
the Nationals and performed I'M
pressively. Neither Moore nor Brown
yielded a hit, but the LookoutS nicked
1iska for two safeties In his starting
frame, the fourth, before he settled 10
work. Liska also issued pair OF passes
and Brown gave one. Moore looked
much better than at Birmingham last
Friday, when the Barons all but
knocked of his ears.
George Loepp went to right field be-
cause johnson wanted to give the vet
eran Sam Rice rest, and George cele-
brated by whacking a double and
single and polling long sacrlf1ce ana
walking twice in five trips to the plate.
He also made two fancy catches in the
early battling and once dashed many
yards to get under a foul. Altogether
George had very satisfactory day. 1t
was a fine one, too, for Sam West. He
eocked two singles and triple, getting
one of the singles of the lett-handed
Wineapple. Between them Loepp and
West gathered five of the Nationals
seven markers. Ossie Bluege and Jimmy
Mcleod, who shared the third-basing
Job, got two hits each, one of Bluege's
being good for three bases.
It was a single by West, a pass TO
Loepp and a two-base wild chuck by
Second Baseman DaShiel after picking
up Barnes grounder that gave the Ma
tionals a marker in round !. Loepps
two-bagger, an error, Hayes sacrifice,
Judges walk and Bluege's triple netted
two runs in the third. and Moore's sin
gle, Vests triple and Loepps sacrifice
meant two more TALES in the fourth
frame.
The Lookouts got their score in the
fourth, when Dashiell and Gooch, nrst
two to face Liska, singled and Bigelow
and Barrett followed with long sacrifice
fies. Liska then walked Treadway, put
thereafter never was bothered by the
Chattanooga batters.
The scoring of Wineapple was done
in the Nationals sixth batting turn
Then West and Loepp singled and
Barnes deep hoist to Barrett in right
put West over. Loepp swiped second
caught and counted as Charity singled
It was Carlos Moore day at Enge
Stadium, and fans from Cleveland
Tenn, Moore's home town, presented
him with a travelling bag when III
stepped up to bat for the first time
And Moore responded with q snapp!
single to right. He made his days bat
ting record read 1000 by singing agar
in the fourth.
johnson used three first basemen
Judge was at the sack five innings