Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14
BACK HERE SUNDAY
TO MEET YANKEES
Play 81 of First SO Games
at Home-Beat Rochester
in Exhibition.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.


after a Winter of peace
and quiet, but tomorrow the Ma
tional Capital will be just that
nothing more. Following the
ceremonial start of their cam
paign at Griffith Stadium this
afternoon-Weather permitting
Nationals and Red SoX board a
train for Boston, where tomorrow
they are slated to give the MasSa-
chusettS metropolis it's first sight
of the big league brand of the
national paStime this year.
When the Nationals finish here today
they will not be seen in competition on
their home lot again until next sunday
when they are slated to entertain the
Yankees, Babe Ruth and all. In the
meantime they will tackle the Red Sox
on three successive days in the Hub and
then shift to Philadelphia for two games
in as many days with the world cham
pion Athletics.
And their next stand at home will
last but one day. for a week from today
thew are to visit Philadelphia for an
other tussle with the club that was the
bane Of their existence last year. After
that, however, they will show on their
home lot, with the exception OF one
day-May 16, when they are to play in
ladelphia-through May rs.
All told, Manager Walter Johnson's
charges are to play 81 Of the first SO
games on their schedule in Griffith Sta
dunn this season. Before the end of
May Washington fandom will have seen
in action here all rivals OF the Nationals
in the American League.
Brown Boston Starter.
johnson has announced he will use
as pitcher against the Red Sox in the
Boston opener tomorrow the left-handed
Lloyd Brown instead of the right-han
ed Irving Hadley. The pilot nominated
Hadley for the contest while the Ma
tionals still were in training in the
South, but has decided to save the
chunky chucker for another day Had
ley had hoped to pitch tomorrow, for
his home is in Lynn, near Boston, and
he gained much of his reputation as a
pitcher on the sandlots OF the Hub.
Although the Red Sox have been con-
Sistent tailenders in the circuit for years,
the Nationals expect no bed of roses in
Boston Oddly, the Hub outfit has gen.
orally been tough nut for the Ma
tionals to crack. Last season Johnson's
charges barely managed to win the an
nual series with the Red SoX and did
so only by whaling them Soundly here.
In Boston in 1929 the Nationals were
able to win but five games.
This year they are hopeful of getting
of to good start in Fenway Park, the
home of the Wagner warriors. They
are going to Boston in better trim than
they were at similar stage in the cam
paign last year and probably much
better team than they were then. With
a fair break they should be successful
There's a fine spirit in the club, its
pitchers look good and it has been hit
ting better than many critics figured it
could Perhaps Boston will not be such
q poor spot this time.
LookOuts Get Powell.
On the eve Of the start here several
changes in the Nationals roster oc-
Cured. The most important involved
the transfer under option of Jake
Powell, hard-hitting rookie outf1elder. to
the Chattanooga Club, Washingtons
farm in the Southern Association. He
left for his new post last night. The
Silver Spring boy gives promise of be-
coming a first-rate hitter and fielder,
but he needs polish which he was not
likely to get sitting on the bench in the
big league. He is sent to Chattanooga
with the provision that he be played
regularly in the outf1eld or returned to
the Nationals. Jake is little more than
20 years years old, so he can we'll af-
ford to take some schooling in the minor
circuit. And he ought to come back
ready for the big time.
Chattanooga has turned back to the
Nationals two players sent the South
ern club under option. They are
Arthur Freeman, outfielder, and Ed
Wineapple, southpaw slabman. Free
man, recruited from the Alexandria
sandlotS last Summer, comes back be-
cause he needs schooling in a circuit
not quite so fast as the Southern.
Wineapple is returned because OF
classification rule in the Dixie league
that gave Chattanooga an excess OF
ing around the Nationals, though, for
President Griffith is shipping him to
the New Haven club OF the Eastern
League under option.
The Washington preXy now is en-
deavoring to find berthS for Freeman
and Gordon Phelps, catcher, brought
up from the Prince Georges County,
Md, sandlots. He hopes to place them
with a club close to Washington, al
though no deal is likely to be closed
within week. Griffith still is seeking
Earl Webb, outfielder, of the Cincinnati
club on waiver. Webb is a veteran and
swings from the left side, but Manager
him, even though the Nationals al
ready are top-heavy with left-hand
bwingers.
Mats Gct seventeenth.
The Nationals yesterday wound up
their Spring exhibition series with a
7-to-5 victory over the Rochester Inter
national League champions to make
their record for the training period IL
wins in 10 starts. The big leaguers
were given a good tussle by the Red
wings, who battled their way to a tie
as late as the eighth round. A homer
driven into the left field stand by Joe
Cronin in the Nationals half of the
eighth broke the deadlock, however, and
as the home side went on to get two
more TALES, the lone marker registered
by the visitors in the ninth did not
hurt.
The Nationals were outhit, IS safeties
to IL, by the Redwings, who pummeled
Irving Hadley for six hits and Carlos
Moore for the remainder. They got but
one run off Hadley in his five innings,
though. Tex Carlton and Larry Irwin,
left-hander, pitched three innings each.
and Ira Smith two innings for the Red
wings. Carlton allowed five hits and
three runs, Irwin two hits and Smith
five hits and four tallies. Cronin was
the Washington attack leader, getting
two singles in addition to his homer.
Play was somewhat loose, the Red