Evening star., 1932-10-30
FIGURES ENHANCE
OFFENSIVE VALUE
Carl Is Rated Better Than
Regarded by Many Fans
in Last Campaign.
BY JOHN II. KELLER

- culated to keep him out OF
commission a long while,
Carl Reynolds should be an Of
fensfvs mainstay Of the Nationals
during the 1888 base ball cam
paign.
At least. Clark Griffith, owner of
the Washington club believes this
and statistics form a good basis
for his belief.
Despite that w-crashing blow de-
iyered by Bill Dickey of the Yankees
il the first game OF the double eheader
in Griffith Stadium last July 4 and
several minor injuries incurred else
where in the campaigning. Reynolds the
past season was more potent factor in
his clubs attack than followers of the
game apparently realized at the time.
Participating in but l02 of the Ma
tionalS 154 games. Reynolds neverthe-
less was one of the clubs strongest and
longest batters and a material aid when
It came to driving runs across. Carl
also was sprightly on the bases Buddy
Myer being the lone National to excel
him at sack stealing.
Reynolds. according to unofficial fig
ures. hit for .305 which got him fifth
rank amcng the Washington batters.
Only Heinie ManuSh. Dave Harris, Sam
Rice and Joe Crcnin hit for higher fig
ures, but neither Harris nor Rice was
accounted a regular Of Reynolds 124
hits, As were CT the eXtra-base variety
and only Manush with a total of IA
hOmerS bettered Carl. credited with 9,
at sn2cking Euch hits.
Reynolds drove across 63 runs.
CTonn drove over mere. So did Ma
nusn and Sam West. But Reynolds,
averaging 81 per game rated better
than West. who drove tallies across at
only rate of .54 per game.
Looks as though Griffith has good
reason to look for much from Reynolds.
providing he keeps in good physical
trim, next season.
TOLD figures, too, reveal that the
~ Washington Club certainly did not
get the poor end in she startling
Winter trade that sent Bump Hadley
and Sam Jones. pitchers, and Jack
Hayes, second baseman, to the White
SoX in exchange fer Reynolds and
johnny Kerr.
Reynolds undoubtedly was of much
more benefit to his new club than was
Hayes to the Chicago outfit. Kerr.
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only 50 games with the Nationals, but
in them he dubbed at a rate of .273
While Hayes hit at only .258 clip for
the White SOX in 1T games.
And the pitchers sent out from the
Nationals failed to shine. Hadley in his
performances for the White SoX and
the Browns of st. Louis finished with a
record OF Is wins against 20 defeats.
Jones, who went through the entire sea-
son with the White SoX, won 10 games
and lost Is.
Doesn't seem they would have been
Q, particular aid to the Washington ball
Club, performing as they did.
DOSS GRIFFITH, hoping to bolster
- the Nationals battery punch, aims
to send some goods to market dur
ing the Winter He already has an
nOunced he is willing to trade almost
anything in stock provided he might
land another Weaver for his pitching
staff or get a catcher that shapes up
better than anything his club now
possesses.
But as Griffith has talked recently,
il doesn't appear likely that Reynolds
will be dangled before prospective bar
terers rs bait when the search for
pitching and catching talent gets not
The washington preXy really isn't pre-
pared 70 give up any offensive power,
no matter how earnestly he declares
otherwise
Kerr might 60 in a trade for Grit
fifth is of the opinion that Cecil travis
the Young Outfielder to be brought up
from the Chattanooga farm, Will be apie
to make the grade in utility roles II
not in better way. Harms 100 may
go on the market. although the Green's
boro. N. c. cop has been quite Valu-
able to the Nationals as plnch batter-
Rumor has it, too. that FREQ Mai
berry. dean of the Washington pitching
staff will figure in a trade. 'TIs re-
norted the White SOx are eager to land
the big Texan, who the past season,
was far off form. Then Griffith mas
Joe Judge. the shelved first baseman'
some young pitching material ana also
Roy Spencer, catcher, who could well
be used as lures in barters.
REYNOLDS. though doesn't figure to go
from the club. even though 1t is under-
stood there are plenty who would ike
to land him and who would willingly
offer the Nationals a good bargain.
cT1LL nothing definite from the
> Washington club officers as to
where the Nationals will do their
training next Spring, but it is almost
certain now that it will be at Biloxi,
Miss. the town used by them the past
two years.
Biloxi. it seems. has offered the
WASHINGTON club attractive terms IN an
effort to get it back and with Grlmtn
ureferring Biloxi to Clearwater, ria
the only other town that has been under
consideration since Orlando, Fla, was
DEFINITELY eliminated by the club presl-
dent-as a training site, everything is
about settled SO far as the MISSISSIPPI
town is concerned excepting the sign
ing Of the papers.