New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
GIANTS ARE NOT
 READY FOR PLAY
Manager Jobn McGraH Not in a
 Happy Frame of Mind

San Antonlo, leX., MATCH " Ni'- Behind with their training schedule and smarting from series of lusty lickings at the hands of supposed ly weaker club, John McGraw and his Giants are not in a happy frame of mind as they prepare to wind up spring labors here.
 Just around the corner, so 10 speak, is National league campaign, and the McGraw men are not ready. First, there was bumper crop of holdouts, and the big guns struggled in slowly. That made McGraW fret ful. Then the weather became ca pricious, and the boys have taken too many of their workouts on the ovcrstutfed interior furniture.
 AS fitting climax. the Giants havo been taking it on the chin with alarming regularity in practice bouts with the Chicago White Sox, who apparently have thrived on Texas weather. The fact might not be inn portant at this stage, but the Gothamites received three hearty beatings and were held to an Il in inning tie before they finally achieved a victory over the Windy City dele gation. Four more scheduled exhibi- tons with the Sox have been can- celled on McGraw's plea that his club needs practice.
 There is consolation for the veter- an pilot, however, in the premise that no team as good as his can so on being bad forever. Except for what has come to be an annual pain in the region of second base, the Giants appear to be thoroughly healthy organization. They had enough to finish third In the last race. The club certainly is no weak CT.
 Eddie Marshall, rangy youpgster who compiled .3l6 batting aver age with Bridgeport last year, ap- pears ready to plug that gap at sec ond. He and Andy Reese, who es- sayed the task most of last year, have waged lively scrap for a month, with Marshall holding an edge. If the rookie can hit anything like last years mark it will De an improvement over Reese's .2S3 and give the Giants a fairly explosive in field.
 Big Bill Terry. who whaled the ball at a .372 clip last year, and threw in 14 home runs for good measure, leaves little to be desired at first, and Travis Jackson and Freddie Lindstrom are, of course. fixtures at short and third. Lind strom hit .319 last season, Jackson .996.
 Melvin Ott, the versatile boy wonder" who cracked 179 hits, in- cluding 42 homers last year, again may be expected to supply the big punch in the Giant outfield. He was about the only punch last year, ex- cepting the veteran, Eddie Roush, who hit 1924 in 1l5 games. Chick Fullis and Fred Leach. other mem- bers of last years fly chasing corps, did no hitting to speak of. A trio of newcomers who may put addition al power in the outer works are Johnny Mostil. obtained from the White Sox, and Sam Leslie and George Fisher, slugging recruits from Memphis and Buffalo. Leslie rapped .S76 for Memphis in 1929 and probably will stick in the big show.
 Although his chuckers have been slow to attain top form, McGraw is untroubled about that department In Carl Hubbell and Bill Walker he has a pair of the niftiest southpaws in the business, and Larry Benton, Fred Fitzsimmons, Joe GeneYich and old John Scott are veterans who can be depended upon for a bundle oi wins if they get a fair share of the breaks. Hubbell salted IS away last year and Walker 14, including his last eight starts.
 Among the most promising of the youngsters seeking a place on the payroll are Joe Hevins. bought from Memphis: Jim Tennent, a big fire baller from York of the Pennsyl. vania leag,fc; Leroy Parmelec, UT from Toledo and Ralph Judd. whc joined the club last fall and won his only three starts. Then there is the veteran Hub" Pruitt back for an- other fling at the majors after win ming l5 out of 22 for Newark last season. McGraw bas hunch Pruitt will make him d winner.
 Bob O'Farrell and the large Fran. cls Hogan again will teak up to give the giants great catching staff That department is, perhaps, the least of the clubs worries. O'Farrel Int for sos in 9l games last year and Hogan had a .H97 mark in l02 con. tests.