Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14
PLAYERS EXPECTING
TO UPSET PREDICTIONS
Band Provides Program for the
Early Arrivals at Griffith
Stadium.
THE LINE-U

With triple play, Hoover to Con-
molly to Ruel," which won't go down
in the oficial scorers book, Washing
tons Nationals and Boston's Red Sox
this afternoon will lift the lid of the
1880 base ball season, day in advance
of the oficial openings of other teams
in both the American and National
Leagues.
His salary wing" well limbered by
many months of medicine ball tossing,
President Hoover is not expected to
strain himself tossing out the first ball
of the base ball season at o'clock this
afternoon. The ball, provided the Chief
Executive is not too wild, will go to Tom
Connolly, dean of American League
umpires, thence to Harold Ruel, Wash
ington's little catcher, and then be put
in play as Umpire Connolly gives the
words, play ball." for the first official
time this year.
Senate Quits Work.
There was such a prevalence of Sen
ators mourning dead grandmothers'
this afternoon that the Senate quit
work at LAO o'clock, just in time to
allow those who were unable to sup
press the boy that remains within them
to go to the opening ball game at Grit
nth Stadium.
Senator McNary succumbed first to
the itch of the base hit and the swung
strike He moved adjournment this
afternoon, stating that certain MEM
bers were not prepared to go ahead
with the discussion of immigration"
The adjournment motion was met
with a roar of ayes" Senator Cope
land, amid the uproar that accompanied
the adjournment, shouted he was "sus-
picious of that statement"
Fred Marberry, Washtngton's leading
moundsman last year, has been assigned
opening game. Opposing him will be
the bespectacled Danny MacFayden
youthful ace Of the Red Sox mound
corps.
Washington will present a veteran
team this year with not single man
in the lineup who has not had at
least a years work with the Nationals
Consigned by sport writers generally
to a place in the second division, the
Washington club opens the American
League season with a record of II wins
and losses in exhibition games played
along the tank town circuit from Mis-
sissippi to Washington, and with new
hope that the predictions of the dag
nosticians may be knocked into a cooked
hat Included in their list of victories
during the Spring exhibition season is
a string of IL straight wins against
major and minor league opposition.
The Goslin hold-out incident is closed
and the Washington club enters the
1890 pennant race hopeful that the
pace set by the team during the closing
weeks Of the 1929 season may be MAIN
tanned and carried through the entire
season Of 1880. Manager Walter john
son and his ball hawks believe the team
will start this year where they left off
last october, when they staged a late
season rally that brought them from
seventh to fifth place and promised, for
a time, to put them in one of the
first division money positions.
Tradition DEGREES that the President
of the United States shall toss out the
first ball of the season when the club
opens in Washington. During the day
word came from the White House that
If rain seemed probable the President
might not attend the game. The sun
Shone during the morning, but grad
ually thickening haze gave promise of
an overcast afternoon.
Fans in Line Early.
Grouped in boxes, in the grandstands
and on the bleachers surrounding the
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