Evening star., 1932-03-18
SNEEzE EPIDEMIC
IS UNDER CONTROL
Bruises Also Yielding to Mar
tins Treatment-Rain
Checks Practice.
BY TOM DOERER.

- as the days target, Presi-
dent William Harridge OF
the American League visiting, Joe
Judge to go to work and Henry
Edwards, American League public
relations officer here, camp affairs
were a little brisk this morning
as the casuals sat around waiting
for the return of Biloxi sun.
Your correspondent, right up in the
front line with the bruised and sneez-
ing, reports the enemy routed and
Michael Martin, your Nationals very
thorough trainer, in full (sneeze) con-
troll of (sneeze) the situation at (sneeZe)
Camp Griff.
With bottle of his secret liniment
in one hand and a spray gun in the
other, Mike went grimly over the top
last night and early this morning, rub
bing and spraying the bruised and Ill
until they realized that being sore and
chilly was mild compared to Mixes
treatments.
MarberTy is better, Spencer's cough
has abated, Vests legs are less achy,
Lloyd Browns arm feels easier, Monte
Weaver'S sore shoulder is improving
and the general run of sneezers on the
mend
However, one more camp member
took it on the whiskers from a cold
germ last night. He is Roy Van Grafiin,
the umpire-of all people-who scowled
his way down to breakfast this morn
ing complaining that the clerk failed
to call him at the customary hour Of
o'clock. At the moment he was regis
tering his kick it was exactly 7:30
O'Clock, showing just how slight cold
down here will affect a man.
Joe JUDGE, the initial sacker, who
has been fielding his position from
the stands in an overcoat and soft
hat, was scheduled to put on the over
alls this afternoon to try his stuff
against the Louisville Colonels of the
American Association.
No reason has been officially assigned |
for the return to the wars of the crack |
little first baSeman, but perusal of the |
two exhib1tton games in which Kuhel |
played showed the latter to have gar F.,
nered but one hit during nine visits to |
the plate.
This, however, would indicate that
Kuhel needed plenty of practice But
Judge Is named to go back to work to-
day, q sudden decision, and it either
backs up Grifith's and Johnsons as
surance that the first base position
Is anybody's-or it means that the Joe
from Kansas City is not in the best of
shape, which your correspondent has
been saying right along.
johnson will not take any more
chances with his regular pitchers for
q few days. Today, for instance, he
had Rags Ragland, Bob Friedrich and
Lynn Griffith listed to do the hurting
for our side. These boys saw action
In the first exhibition game against
Baltimore last Tuesday
Fischer's showing proved that he
needs few more days before getting
into action. His beating by the Bal
timoreanS, however, does not mean that
he is wrong. He is rounding into
splendid condition, but is not ready to
try some of the slants he used against
the Orioles.
A MISERABLE day yesterday kept the
N squad in all afternoon, following
short, but very brisk workout
in the morning. A sheet Of rain came
wnizzing OF the gulf just before noon
and sent the boys homeward at a gal
lop.
A yachting party, arranged BY the
Chamber Of Commerce, was called OF,
as a result of the shower. That was
tough because the boys who thought a
yacht was some sort of bicycle were
donned in commodore caps with big
gold eagles on the front, and all the
trappings that go with yachting. They |
now can take 'em home to the local
museum.
But the inclement weather enabled
President Harridge and Henry Edwards
to make their annual announcement
that everything is jake in the American
League Who would think it wasn't
and, if not, who would think the prexy |
or Henry would say it wasn't?
But Henry elaborated on his Kiwanis |
speech by saying that the American
League race was going to be three
club skirmish this semester, and not q |
one-club farce as it was last season.
EDWARDS believes from his obser-
- vation of the clubs is training in
the grapefruit belt that the Ath- |
letics, Nationals and Yanks will go
down the stretch scrapping as never be-
held before. He thinks that the Nation !
ais are stronger, the Athletics as full OF
dynamite as ever and that the Yanks
will get some pitching from Gomez,
Allen and Ruffing to put them at the
top He looks for the fight to start at
the tap of the bell.
Looking over the llSC OF Jne cluD4s
Edwards sees an improvement among
the other clubs, particularly the Red
Sox, and feels that If Cleveland gets
some pitching it viii be hanging on
the fringe of the Big Three when the
war gets under way.
TRIFFTTH got in his golf today, de-
" spite the weather, and he and Billy
Smith of his Office staff paired to
take q beating. That proved that
there are some other things besides
golf on the gray pilots mind-and
maybe it's base ball