Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
PLAYERS HURRY|NG
TO CAMP AT BILOXI
Show Remarkable Spirit by
Reporting Before They
Are Due.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON,
Snnrts Editnr. The star


L. the players from whom the
1881 edition of the Nation
ais is to be chosen will be in camp
here toiling under the direction of
Manager Johnson, and from the
way members of the second squad
are beginning to drift in it is like
ly most of them will be at hand a
bit ahead of schedule.
Fred Marberry blew In yesterday eve
ming from Hot Springs, Ark, where he
has been taking the baths for the past
three weeks, Sam Rice is due some time
today from the same place, Dave Harris
Is expected at almost any time, Buddy
Myer probably will check in about the
middle of the week and it will not be
surprising If several of the others for
whom the reporting date is next Sun
Gay beat the barrier by day or two.
This willingness on the part of the
athletes to get to work is regarded as
q good omen, for it usually is evinced
only when they feel they are destined
to accomplish something worth while in
the pennant race. 1t indicates, in other
words, the boys are confident the team
Is going somewhere.
Marberry in Good Trim.
Marberry looks to be in fine shape
and reports that the five teammates
who sojourned at Hot Springs with him
also are making good progress toward
getting into condition. He left the Ar
kansas resort Friday with Myer and
went by train to the latter's home, in
Ellisville, couple of hundred miles
north of here, where he joined Mrs.
Marberry and finished the trip by motor.
: The only Griffmen now at the Spa are
Heinie ManuSh, Harry Rice and Bill
Eargrave.
Fred confided that in addition to the
inevitable daily tub in the radioactive
water for which the spa is famous and
q taunt over the hills in the vicinity
he made 1t regular practice to indulge
IN forenoon session of warming up
with one Of his mates, Hargrave usually
receiving his losses, as he may do fire.
quently during the season.
AS result, Marberry believes he
mas gotten away to running start in
the business of prepping for campaign
OF moundwork. He appears to be still
. bit heavy, about 10 pounds or so,
but his legs are strong and his wind
good and he is confident he will be
able to get rid of the superfluouS weight
remaining well within the month and
Q half left before the curtain rises on
the American League championship
season.
Hargrave Too Heavy.
Although Fred did not specifically
say so, one gathered from his COM
ments regarding the situation at the
preliminary conditioning base that Har-
grave has more work in store for him
than any of the others, the impression
gained being that the squatty catcher
has many pound to shed before he
viii be able to move around in an
effective manner.
It. was Marberry who voiced the
opinion that Myer probably would come
on to Biloxi ahead of his reporting
date, as Buddy is expected to linger at
his upstate home only long enough to
straighten out some business, but 1t
was President Clark Griffith who i'm
parted the information that Harris
would be an early arrival.
1t seems that Dave wrote In from his
place Of Information at Greensboro,
N. c., to say that he tips the beam
well over the 100 mark, which is his
best playing poundage, and that he
was anxious to get the reducing bust
ness started. Permission readily was
granted.
Golf Lures Sam Rice.
The arrival today of Sam Rice is ac-
counted for by the fact that the veteran
outf1elder has a theory in regard to
training which he always follows. Sam
has the notion that the regularly pre-
scrtbed 81 baths which he takes each
Spring exact a certain toll in the way
of stamina, and after finishing the
course he likes TO loll around for
week and do nothing more strenuous
than bit Of golflng each day before
plunging into the business Of base ball
He has timed his arrival so as to carry
out this regime exactly.
After Sabbath of idleness so far as
base ball is concerned, but fully util-
lied by all the players in various forms
of recreational activities including shut
f1e board on the concrete courts in the
hotel grounds, which is getting a big
play from the boys this year, the usual
diamond calisthentics were resumed at
the ball park this morning.
Also a force of Office assistants was
busy distributing posters through town
and around the countryside advertising
the tits the club is TO play here starting
next week.
Here's a New Game.
These placards are attractive in APP
pearance. and bear smiling likeness OF
Pilot johnson, but 1t was not discovered
until the full consignment had been run
of the press that in the largest type
used the word exposition" instead Of
exhibition" appears in announcing the
games.
from the usual variety remains to be
seen.