Evening star., 1932-02-21
MATS EARLY SQUAD
SPEEDING TO BILOXI
Boyle, Thomas and Bolton
Only Players With Pilot on
Camp.Bound Train.
BY TOM DOERER.

n \ OAROE, Va, February 20.-To-
nu days movement of the Wash
w ington Base Ball Club added
another man to the original
troupe Of nine members of the club and
newspaper men speeding toward the
Biloxi training base when it reached
here this afternoon.
He is Luther Thomas, former Wash
ington sand lot hurler and property
of the Chattanooga Club. He is ma
tive of Charlottesville, where he has
been farming all Winter. Thomas will
proceed to camp to shape up with the
Griffs. He reports to Chattanooga at
the opening of the season.
Cliff Bolton, catcher, was due to hop
aboard late tonight at Winston-Salem,
N. c., completing the present contln-
gent.
Manager Walter johnson spent the
afternoon making Coach Al Schacht
wonder why the cards he draws are not
as important ones as the big fellow
from Bethesda pulls from the pack.
In another corner of the special
Coach Nick Altrock was trying to find
three-letter word to fit in his cross
word puzzles, and as he hit upon few
of them old familiar quail hunting
spots and golf courses disturbed his
word planning as he pointed out with
yarn attached each Of the spots in Vir-
ginia.
Bid for Mascot Declined.
out any official mascot again this sea-
son much to the disappointment of
Floyd Hannert, feet no inches of COL
ored boy from Washington. who made
his plea to Manager johnson just as
the train started South.
Floyd. decked like Broadway hoofer
and loaded to the chin with recon-
mendations, claimed to be the best COL
ored mascot on this side of the Mason
and Dixon Line. His mascoting
brought luck and games won to Ports
mouth and Charlottesville, according
to the little boy with sartorial great
ness, but johnson declined the prof
fered luck, indicating to the mascot
that if there were any ball games to
be won by the Griffs this year it would
have to be done with bat.
Floyd departed in blue funk Of
disappointment. leaving only the men,
ory of sartorial brilliancy in his wake
letters from youngsters in the vicinity
OF washington, in which the boys
apply for the position of official mascot
with the Griffs.
Boyle a Lanky Six-Footer.
Johnny Boyle, the elongated right
hand hurling sandlotter and Villanova
collegiate and the only player to de-
part from Washington aboard the
Southern Limited at 1:35 this after
noon. Is six-footer, and, according to
Manager johnson. will take on a few
pounds of beef at camp to help him
toss over his fast ones. Johnny talked
business with Griffith back in 1880.
They discussed base ball and Johnny's
chances during five-day visit Of the
big boy to the Capital.
The conference resulted in the Bay
onne, N. j.. player deciding to attend
school at Villanova for a year and
then reporting to the Griffs this sea-
son. Boyle has had two years of high
school Tipping and two of semi-pro
hurting as a member of q twilight
league in Jersey.
At Villanova last year he tackled up
but one lone victory in the only two
combats in which he figured. A sur
plus Of hurlers at the Philadelphia
school kept him inactive.
Upon his annual good-luck wishing
jaunt, Sylvester Breen of Alexandria,
Va, the perennial fan, rode with the
boys from Washington to Alexandria.