Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-24


Wv Washington base ball
club tomorrow afternoon
in Griffith Stadium-if weather
permits. This weather permits
qualification is necessary, win SO
MANY postponementS so early IN
the season because of snow, ram,
cold and anything else that m
duces the management OF the
home club to wait until announcer
day to play. g..
The white Elephants for the hrst
time this year are to show their wares
to the fandom of the National CaplIaI
in three games, accorolng 10 tIle scnSo a.
fine form displayed by them in the
last campaign of the American League
is not certain. It's still good pan
club this Philadelphia club. that
romped roughshod over the Nationals
last year, not to mention the treat
ment it gave the other outfits IN tne
circuit. But the AS were not great
An 1e2a and they have their deficiencies
this season.
During the past campaign the
Mackian horde was blessed with re-
markable pitching. Its regulars, too'
were hitting terrifically. Whenever the
pitchers slumped bit, 1t seemed the
h;tters smotG the ball harder. wen,
the AS still are hitting right Wen,
but with the exception of Robert Moses
Grove. left-handed genius OF modern
base ball, their pitchers are not func-
tioning so well. And this may make
1t difficult for the AS to set such last
pace in the first month of the cam
paigning as they did in 1929.
Last season the Nationals set up the
first step to the pernant for the AS.
R-f.. Tet-, hoy1 SiT111lV QOl1n AS
soon as it went on the field against
the Philadelphia crew. This season
At ought to be different. The Wash
ington pitchers now are not awed by
the sight of a man at the plate IN
the uniform of the Athletics. They
are ready to give each and every men,
Der of Mack's bunch battle.
The next three days should provide
some keen contests in Griffith Stadium
It will be no Sinking Washington team
that face the AS and the rs VIII have
a wholesome respect for their foes.
something they did not have in the past
season Any way one may figure, the
Nationals do not lock set-ups for the
Athletics now.
WHEN the Nationals were in Phila-
w delphia last week, scribes of the
papers in the City Of Brotherly
Love chuckled gleefully whenever they
turned attention to the ages of the
Washington players. TO listen to The
Philadelphia writer's, one might think
Johnson's team to be composed en-
tirely of men we'll qualified Tor i'd
mittance to home for seniles. A COM
parison Of the first eight players in the
line-ups of the two clubs, however,
shows the Athletics have little on the
Nationals AS to brevity of existence on
this sphere. and so far as those in the
batting order whose ages are in the
thlrtles is concerned, the Maclsian me-
LANCE has more than the Griffith group.
To be exact on figures given by base
ball statistical books the first eight
regulars of the Washington batting
order average 1894 years. The first
eirht of the Philadelphia order average
1913 years. Odd, isn't it, why the Phila-
delphia scribes should refer to the Ma
ticnals as the Potomac Pappies."
TAKE look at the ages. Let's start
l. with the Washington lineup West
is 25. Rice, 80; Goslin. %; Myer
26; Cronin. %; Judge. IS; Bluege, 90,
and Ruel, "a Now for the Athletics.
Bishop is 80. Haas, 26: Cochrane, &c;
Simmons. 81: Foxx, "a; Miller, "a;
DYKES. 33, and Boley, 81.
In Rice the Nationals have The old
est player of the two teams, but the
"A lldNC 1Su- al tAlS Ou~ CT N'fAEHo 'i-Ac
tho Nationals but three. What's more
The Nationals can boast of having the
youngest player of the two teams. Joe
Cronin has Jimmy FoXX beaten by
gear.
Potomac Pappic5. Where 60 they get
it?
A NY trade with the Red Sox looks
"A "out" so far as the Nationals are
concerned. Manager Wagner has moth
ing the Washington club wants other
than pitcher, and the Red Sox certain
ly cannot afford to let go any of their
mound corps now. The mound corps is
about all the Boston club has to make
it a going affair. True, Washington has
an abundance of outfielders, but even
though the Red SoX could use another
gardener, what have the Nationals to
tempt the Red SoX into trade that
could be spared? President Clark Grit
nth says there's no trade contemplated
and a careful survey of the situation
wound indicate he means what he says.
TT was too cold yesterday even for the
4 Nationals to practice after reporting
at the ball yard at 1890, and at noon
the business management of the club
called of the scheduled game. Ma
tionals and Red Sox, though. hoped to
fly at one another's Threats this after
noon.
TOMORROW will be ladies' day, the
: first ladies' day of the year at
Gyifith Stadium. All Fridays there
afer. when the club is at home, will be
las'ies' day as usual. On such DAYS the
fa'. s~x will BE- passed through the
e. without charge. But there will
b. y free admission for Boy Scouts
T',,-ir day will not be in order until the
ruoic schools are closed for Summer
Vacation.