The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-16
Cruising IN
Sportland
WITH EDDIE ASH

1888 4AhdS py tine tCOOlnS and &C.
Eepted the third. calling for $4,000
aor this years pastsning. He is the
handspring Of the Flatbush inheld.
fie was paid $4,000 in 1880.
Wright Is the ball player with the
plastic shoulder. He ruined his
throwing arm playing basketball
aaring the winter of 1928 and was
unable to toss the horsehide at all
me next season. The surgeons got
DuSy and brought the arm back to
ne Dy taking flesh from the players
nap and transferring 1t TO his lame
shoulder.
THE operation gave Wright
- new power house and wing and
ne was star in 1880 after. recover
ing from another ailment,
sprained ankle. The big fellow
turned in a batting average Of .321
Tor his team last season. Wright
vas developed In the American As /
ISOLATION by Kansas City and went
70 Pittsburgh for a big price. The
Pirates traded him to Brooklyn
when he showed signs Of slipping.
Uncle Wilbert Robinson's medicine
got him back into his stride.
johnny Riddle, Indianapolis
catcher, has recovered entirely form
the Illness that bounded him last
year and writes from San Antonio
that the has brought his weight up
TO 185. He is living at the 7. M
g. A. there and Is taking Just
enough exercise to keep from be-
coming lazy. Pleurisy and appen-
dtcitis cut him down last season.
TSHE Villa Goodrich, in Sarasota,
4 where Johnny Corriden's In
dams will make their headquarters
during spring training, has been re-
decorated and a heating plant in
stalled. The hotel manager also
says he has installed ventilating
system, which brings laugh
Trainer Jim Pierce has been down
there about ten days.
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Pierce reports the baseball trunks
arrived without falling apart, and
work on the training field has be-
gun. Catcher Tom Angley, wintering
in Sarasota, has started to exercise
y little, according to Pierce. Tom is
the overweight member Of the Tribe
household.
Ted McGrew, National League |
umpire, who is spending the winter
at the home base, Indianapolis, will |
90 south with the Indians tosget in
shape and act as urnpire-in-chief
for the Tribe exhibition games in
Florida and at Washington park
when the Corridenites return north.
It will be quite a Hoosier party in
Sarasota this spring. Secretary
CIauer will drive down this year to
reduce the rented car expenses. You
can not street-car in that territory.
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Signs of spring in the dead Of
winter. Jack Hendricks, assistant
to President Norman Perry and
chief Indian scout, has done his bit
toward stimulating business by
helping the trucking business. He |
has moved his family to an apart
nent at No. East Thirty sixth |
street. Jack win make the spring
training journey with the Tribe and
renew friendships in the sunshine |
state.
A L CLOUDS, veteran telegra-
IN. pher and Tribe BOOSTER. again
will make the spring trip with the
Hoosiers as vacationist, and Will
depart with the first squad on
March /. He is well acquainted In
Sarasota and hopes there will be an
Improvement in weather. down there
over last year. SO far this winter
Florida has had little to boast about. !
PeYhaps in the distant future
baseball teams will be scran1bling
for training camps in the far north,
especially Medicine Hat 1t was
warmer in the province of Alberta
Thursday than in Miami. The beach
mamas in the beach pajanas will
get their pink toes frost bitten If
they don't watch out
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A s payment for shortstop Luke
n Appling, Ownie Bush's White
Sox have sent catcher Chick Autry |
to Atlanta. This leaves Bush with
four backstops, Tate, Berg. Henline
and CRUDE. Tate will be first string. |
one of the four will be sold or used
in 8 trade. Appling is the young |
man who collected $6,250 when the
Crackers sold him to the majors.
He was smart and got a bonus
promise out Of the Atlanta owner
that was upheld by the national
baseball board.
s. G.
Andy Lotshaw, indianapolis, we'll
known trainer with the Chicago
Cubs, Is visiting relatives here be-
core making the annual trek to
Catalina island, California, where
The Bruins pitch camp. Lotshaw
was home run king of the minors
wears ago before the days of the
lively ball. He walloped twenty
nine one year.
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Lotshaw predicts the Cubs will
Av high under Rogers Hornsby and
improved pitching and says when |
the 1881 race is run the Wrigley
uastin1ers will be right up there in
the pennant seat. Andy denies the
report that said he engaged In a
rlubhouses tiff with Hornsby last |
summer. TITS all Jake between Us"