The Washington times., 1930-04-04
Miller

and professions represented at
a race track every afternoon to
run the average municipality,
keep it in good health, out of
the tolls of the law and other
wise functioning. For instance.
at a single matinee we observed
a district attorney, a bondsman'
an automobile salesman, rail-
road executive, a physician, a
taxi-cab president with his
brothers and father. detective,
a newspaper publisher, foot
ball coach, a telegrapher, a
Vice President of the United
States, a brother-in-laW, a street
car motorman, a woman real
estate operator. a bank presi-
dent, a mother land her son,
several husbands without their
wives and several with 'em, a
bachelor, a girl and her sister
and a couple of other fellows.
Enough energy going to waste
there to run a good-Slzed town,
keep it we'll, prosperous, thriving
and populated.
In a year of good rockies in
both major leagues, the two
best are Gordon Slate, short
stop, and Mickey Finn, second
baseman, who cost the Brook
lyn Robins a total penny of
$4,000.
And speaking of rockies, they
say our own Alvin Powell, the
Silver Spring Surprise, is far
from being a Slouch although
he will no doubt require a year
or two of seasoning yet before
he can be of any real utility
to the Griffmen.
The travelling scribes have
had high praise for couple of
young infielders the Athletics
are bringing along, Eric McNair
and Dibrell Williams. Arthur
Herring. of the Tigers, has been
pitching splendid early spring
ball and seems too sweet a
young pitcher to be able to
keep it up and Glenn Liebhardt.
an Athletic prospect. also seems
to know what it is all about.
With a year or two around
Grove and Walberg. Liebhardt
could learn plenty, probably
more than by being farmed
out to a good Glass A team.
His main assets are speed and
one of those down" curves
that are very deceiving to the
man at the plate.
The funniest line that had
come out of the Goslin-Grif.
fifth controversy is the one
that Goose has got to pay his
own expenses while in train.
ing. Why, he's already saved
the club several hundred dol
lars training expenses; they
ought to train him for moth,
ing and then give him a re-
bate! Just another Griffith
fairy tale, that's all, and adults
don't believe it.
The baseball season can
really be said to be upon us.
The Philadelphia National
League club is already in the
Quaker City and the other
major clubs are rapidly work,
ing their respective ways to
their home bases.
While no one has yet picked
the Phillies to win the old
league title, they will undoIbt-
edly be much-improved team
this year, carrying on right
where they left off after
very impressive season in 1929.
So far the consensus of opin
ion seems to indicate there is
nothing to the National League
race but the Cubs, but the
Phils will be one of the stun
bling blocks which the Cubs
must surmount.
This college baseball must be
getting hot when enough ex.
element can be generated to
order two men from the field
and forfeit the game to the
opposition because the ban.
ishees refused to carry out the
umpire's edict. A little more
of that stuff and the first
thing we know college baseball
will begin to mean something
That happened in the Catholic
University-Villanova game.