Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
.MACKS HAVE LONE
ROOKIE SOUTHPAW
Connie Is Short of Favorite
Type of SIabmen-NeWS
From Other Camps.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TORT MYERS, Fla, February 49,
- Despite Connie Mack's liking
for left-handed pitchers, there
is only one rookie southpaw in
this years squad of boxmen working out
with the champion Athletics, Alfred
Mahon, a semi-pro from Nebraska.
Available literature on Mahon states
that he is 20 years old, stands feet IL
inches, weighs ITS and in one of his
final high school games struck out 20
opponents in is innings.
Photographed for the talkies beside
Ehmke and Rommel while they I'M
wound easy pitches to Mickey Cochrane,
Mack said:
ION my right is Ehmke, the pitcher
who won the first game of the world
series with Chicago. Besides myself
apparently only one other man in the
country picked Ehmke to pitch the flrst
game and moreover win 1t. That was
a man in Texas who bet $400 to $4,000
that Ehmke would pitch and win Che
first game.
THE other pitcher is Eddie Rommel
the boy wonder, who pitched in the
seventh inning of the fourth game and
received credit for the victory He tells
me he will pitch more than one inning
in the next series"
BY the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, February
26.-The New York Yankees catching
staff has one onsolation-no1e of the
fouls of the 1880 season will be as hard
to snare as are base balls dropped from
an airplane.
All of the clubs receivers, Bengough,
Dickey, Hargrave, Jorgens and Karlon,
tried their hand at this interesting
pastime yesterday. An airplane flew
$50 feet above the camp and its pas
senger tossed out base balls while the
catchers took turns trying to catch
them. Not one was caught.
WEST PALM BEACH. Fla, February
IS (Pl.-A dozen faces were missing
when the ST. Louis Browns started the
annual hmbering-up exercises yesterday,
but BILLY the Red" Killefer, manager,
was not alarmed.
He declared they were only struggling
in and the full complement Of % who
were scheduled to take part in the first
workout would be here in day or so.
Killefer says he will allow his ath-
letes to observe midnight taps" with
an $3.50 reveille and practice beginning
two hours later.
NEW ORLEANS, February 26 (P).-
Carl Lind, the Cleveland Indians
sparkling second baSeman of 1928, has
arrived at the Tribe camp two weeks
ahead or schedule in perfect condition
and fully recovered from the intestinal
ailment which kept him of form last
season.
The likewise early arrival of Out
fielder Eddie Morgan and demonstration
that all the battery men present ex-
cepting Joe Shaute are in the best of
condition boosted the Tribes optimism.
Shaute rested q tender shoulder all
Winter and needs plenty Of exercise.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, February rs [A9
Manager DOME Bush of the hopeful
Chicago White SoX has graduated his
early squad from purely conditioning
work into the technical end of base ball
The pitchers yesterday were given a
lesson in the art of covering first base
and another drill Of the same kind was
up for today. Sergt. George Connally,
the rubber-armed relief pitcher, arrived
yesterday, leaving Dutch Henry as the
only member of the early squad yet to
appear.
PENSACOLA, Fla, February 26 (P).-
A big fellow leaned longngly over the
wire fence behind which the Red SoX
were having their first workout of the
Southern training season. Then he
walked in, shouting greetings to all the
boys and asking for "Mistah Bob"
In less time than it takes to tell big
Ed Morris. pride of the lowly Red
Stocking mound staff, was in President