Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

tractable during negotiations with
club headquarters here and nov
is in line for the 1880 campaign
He is Charles Solomon Myer-ol
Buddy Myer, if you will have it so
Charles Solomon'S letter of &C.
ceptance now repoSeS in the
archives of the Washington club
offices and according to President
Clark Griffith the young fellow
who resides in ElliSville, Miss,
between diamond seasons appar-
emily is well satisfied with what is
to come to him.
With the acceptance of terms by
Myer, Griffith has in tow threefourths
of the lnf1eld Manager Walter johnson
very likely will send into action at the
start of the next American League
campaign. Joe Judge, flrst-base veteran,
accepted terms some time ago as did
OSSie Bluege, who everyone hopes Will
be able to perform better than ever at
third base since his trick knee has been
cisco youngster, who again is slated to
assume the shortStop position f1anking
Myer, remains out Of the fold.
That Myer is determined to get a
throttle hold on the second-base place
at the jump-of this year instead of
SQuirm into the berth is indicated in
q desire expressed by him in communi-
cations with the Washington Office to
permit him to do some preliminary
training at Hot Springs, Ark. Buddy
has asked that he be sent to the Spa
for a thorough workout before report
ing at the Biloxi Miss, training base
and the request has been given Grit
fith's Ok
will Tramp Ozarks.
So Buddy is to leave his Ellisville
home the middle of this month for the
Arkansas resort and for three weeks
will go through course of exercise and
baths calculated to take the kinks out
of muscles that have not been so pliable
for a year or two. Not only will Myer
tramp over the rugged hills surround
ing the Spa, but he also will immerSe
himself in the various sulphur, mud
and steaming water pools that have
made Hot Springs famous the world
over.
Buddy will not be without company
at Hot Springs Sam Rice, venerable
outfielder of the Nationals, left town
yesterday, headed for the Ozarks. Like
Myer, old man Rice feels it will be
better for him to loosen somewhat be-
ing routine to come at Biloxi. But Sam
isn't planning to do the same condi-
tioning work as Myer does at the Spa.
Instead, the veteran gardener intends
to do most of his exercising on the
many fine golf courses about the Ar
kansas resort.
Both these players are to report at
the Biloxi camp March 9 and they
should do so greatly benefited by their
workouts at Hot Springs. That Rice
feels it necessary to get in a bit of early
training should occasion no surprise.
Sam. as Nick Altrock would say, is
getting young no faster" He is, ac-
cording to the base ball records, nearly
80 years old and when a ball player gets
that s~- along in his career he needs
some extra tonic. Myer, though, Is
only II his twenty-sixth year and at
first consideration it might seem odd
that he needs the preliminary tune-up.
Would Regain Speed.
Buddy, though, believes the extra
training will enable him to show more
foot in play this year than he did
last. He feels that in 1929 he was con-
siderably slower than he was the pre-
vious year when he played with the
Red Sox and he does not want to feel
so sluggish this year. That Buddy Is
justified in thinking he lacked his usual
American League may be realized when
his record is scanned.
With the Red Sox in 1928, Buddy
batted at a .313 clip and socked the
bali hard. He f1elded for an average
of 969 at third to finish third among
the hot corner guardians of the circuit
and p1fered 80 bases to lead the league
in that respect. With the Nationals in
1929, Buddy hit at exactly 800 pace,
fielded only 1856 at third base, where he
started the campaign, and put .958 at
second base, where he played the great
er part of the time. He also swiped
only 10 sacks to fall far behind the
league leader. If it wasn't loss of speed
that caused this 1929 slump. Buddy
Goes not know how to account for it.
The Nationals headquarters will be
shifted to the Southland this week.
Wednesday morning President Griffith
will close his desk at the Georgia ave-
nue. park and head for Dixie. He will
be accompanied by Eddie Eynon, secre-
tary of the club, and a personal secre-
tary Griffith will stop of In Chatta-
nooga for a day or two to see how the
lookouts of the Southern Association
are shaping up under the guidance of
Joe Engel, chief executive Of the minor
outfit as well as lone scout of the Wash
ington club. Griffith, of course, takes
keen interest in this Southern ksSocia-
ington farm.
Moves Office to Biloxi.
From Chattanooga Grifith and his
party will proceed to Biloxi and estab-
lish headquarters in the Biloxi Hotel,
where the remainder of the business
of lining up his players for the i'm
pending championship race in the Bar
nard circuit will be done. How easy
will be this task remains to be seen.
While the Washington chief has moth
ing to Say-as uSual-concerning hold
outs, It's well known that several of
the boys are not so eager to accept
terms offered and may have to be
spoken to sharply before they will sign
on the dotted line.
Most Standof1sh of the Nationals
at present are Goose Goslin, erstwhile
humping outfielder; Fred Marberry.
the clubs leading pitcher last year, and
Ruel, clever little catcher, and Sad
Sam Jones, willy pitcher. Nothing salts
factory to the clubs powers-that-be
has been heard from this quartet re-
Gently, and in all likelihood none Of
the four will close until he confers
with Griflth at the Southern training
camp.
Manager johnson at present does not
plan to get to the conditioning field
at Biloxi before his pitchers report
there on February 26, little more than
three weeks from today. AS johnson
considers the matter, there will be moth
ing for him to do there before that
time.