The Washington times., 1932-03-03
SHOWS
PEP|N CAMP
SESSIONS.

IntS Is the SSCOTLU Oy SETLeS
of reUietDS of major league teams
in training by international NetoS
SerUice correspondents. Others
tDiH toIlotO.
BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN
CLEARWATER, Fla. March 8.
Those free and easy" Brooklyn
Dodgers of another day are being
transformed into a hard-working,
business-like aggregation at the
local ball park by their new
manager, Max Carey, successor to
the genial Uncle Wilbert" Rob-
inson.
It's all business at the Brook.
lyn camp. Gone and forgotten
is the tom-foolery Of a year ago.
There Is to be! no trip to Havana.
Sloppy Joe'S" bar is just a
memory to the Brooklyn boys.
Stresses Efficiency
Carey, a leather complexioned.
aggressive fellow with a cold CLINT
in his eyes, is StreSsing efficiency
first" The way to win ball
games, he claims, is to get "the
maximum efficiency" out of a
club. That's what he intends to
do with the Dodgers. Carey adds:
II think we have wonderful
possibilities. Here is a club
with great latent power. It's
a question Of getting them back
into their stride of two years
ago. If hard work will do it,
we'll get there"
Manager Carey would not pre-
dict where the Dodgers will finish
but believes they are strong
first division club.
Every day Carey forces his play
ers to go through calisthenics
They get a stiff workout that
would do credit to West Point
Cadets and when they are
through they are dripping with
perspiration. They already are
far ahead of other clubs in phySi'
cal condition. They got a bad
start last season and Carey does
MT want 1t to happen again.
Hard-Hitting OutfieId
Carey thinks he may have the
greatest hitting outfield in the
major leagues-"Lefty" O'Doul
Hack Wilson and Babe Herman
With Johnny Frederick ready fol-
reserve duty. # O'Doul, Wilson
and Herman hit like they did in
1880 they will have a punch
no club can SurpaSS. Carey con
tinueS: .'
I'VE will make runs-We're
that kind of q team. Maybe
we'll have q better pitching COM
binatiOn than we thought we
would have. And If we get the
hitting and the pitching that is
in the club, watch out for uS!"
ODoul and Wilson are due to
join the club today. Herman still
is a hold-out but is expected to
come to terms. The rest of the
regulars, with the exception OF
Third BaSeman Wally Gilbert are
in camp. Carey declares:
81 don't anticipate any trouble
in handling Hack Wilson. I
know Hack. He's one Of those
sensitive players who must be
jOllied along at times"
Carey views the addition of
Wilson and Pitcher Waite Hoyt,
the American League veteran, as
ten strikeS-providing they make
good. AS Carey expressed it:
Both Wilson and HOyt know
it's strictly up to them. That
they've got to make good this
year or pass out Of the picture"
The Brooklyn ball club will
start the season with Bissonette
at first base. Mickey Finn and
FreSco Thompson will fight it out
for the second base job. Glenn
Wright will handle shortstop but,
in case his weak ankle fails, Cor
don Slade will supplant him.
Either Gilbert or Bobby Refs will
perform It third.
Quinn Relief Hurler
Herman, Wilson and ODoul
will be the outfield combination
perhaps a weak defense but
potentially q powerful offense.
Lopez and lombard will do
the Brunt of the catching. The
starting pitchers will comprise
Clark, Vance Hoyt, Heimach.
Shaute, Phelps and possibly
Moore. quinn and Thurston will
handle the relief work. Then
there are five fine looking young
pitchers up from Hartford
Mungo, Gallivan, Mattingly
Jones and Krider.
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