New Britain herald., 1930-03-27
By WILLIAM BRACCHER (NEA Service Sports Editor)

(NEA Service Sports Editor)
 Pensacola, Fla, March 27.-Elis- torical legend has it that the word Pensacola means City of Sorrow But I am told the city had that name long before the Boston Red SoX be- gan to train here.
 The Boston Red SoX, as you know. is the tail end American league base ball entry. The Rcd SoX have been tail-cndcrs since the years 1859, which was year before De Soto made a supply base of this pretty city.
 The late Harry Frazec, onc-tlme president of the Boston Red SoN, had just sold De Soto to the Yankees for 5000, legend has it, and Dc Soto had come to Pensacola to get ill shape for the season.
 MT. Frazec Great Salesman
 Dc Soto was not the only player Harry Frazce sold in 1j39 or the years following. Besides De Soto he sold Babe Ruth and-but why go into that? Mir. l'razee sold every body--including Harry Fazee. The net result to the Boston Rcd SoX has been most depressing.
 The decline of the Rcd SoX has been baseball legend. But toward the flag end of the 1929 season. the team started perliing up a triflc- pn nt n oytfl n n lar and look around to find out what | it was all about-but there was inn provement shown, just the same. Now Heinie Wagner, the new man ager, is taking up the shaping of the 930 team about where Manager Bill Carrigan left off. And there is mo- where 10 go but up.
 "I'd like to have a couple moro left handed pitchers" Hcinic told mo, and maybe some lcft-handcd ! batters.
 'I hope some of the young fcl- lows break through with some good baseball. You know We didn't have the punch last year-batted last, and were only a shade better than the Tigers in fielding. (Thc Tigers were the last and the worsD.
 If we can just go up another notch this year I'll think we arc getting a little better, anyway"
 Think Of Chicago, Heinic I had in mind to tell licinie that it would be dirty trick to play or the Chicago White SoX, but didn't have the heart' Hene is trying hard to make team of the Red Sox and he is so serious about the whole thing, and all, that you have to re- spect him.
 To get technical about it, there may be come changes in the inGcld Phil Todt, who batted 9G2 last year may be displaced by young Bill Sweeny, who batted .335 for Toron, to last year. Steve O'Ncil think! Sweeny ought to bc ready for fas company this year.
 A young man who battcd .3i7 fo, Milwaukee last year Otis Miller looked good around Bill Rcgan's spo at second base. Bobby Reeves. q third, has been finding competition from a flashy kid from Shreveport Ernie Holman. The shortstop jol seems destined to go to Bill Narlcs l ky who hits a few points above tn, other shortstop entry, Hal Rhyme 1 thought that doesn't have to be s, very high, either. None Of the Ike, SoX infielders batted as high at 30 last year. and that is ono of the req sons why Boston has not been mak ing runs.
 Gardening Material Looks Coed
 There is good material in the out field, young fellows who bat an, | field. The agcing Ken Williams vii not have his bit bat in there thf year, but Johnny Eothrock. who hi 800 last year. has begun 10 fin, himself; Bill Barrett can sock tn southpaws; Russ Scarritt hit .2n last year and should go higher thai that this season; Joe Cicero, rccalle, last fall from Pittsield. sockc, American league pitching hard in tn closing days of the 1929 campaign Johnny Winsctt batted .34G for Mo bile last year. and Tom Oliver, for mcrly of the Macl;s, hit .3GG fo Little Rock last season.
 The catching is good. Johnny Hey ing and Charley Berry are the hold overs, with three youngsters on tn roster who look good Bob ASb. orn sen (hcavcn help the box SCOT