Evening star., 1932-03-28
SUFFER ONLY ONE
LOSS IN 10 GAMES
Griffs Score Over Orioles for
Fifth Time-Triple Play
at Biloxi.

~ uOXI, Miss, March 28.-Ii
K the exhibition games played
IL thus far this Spring mean
anything, the Nationals bid
fair to make the going rough and
tumble for their American League
opponents this coming Summer.
To date the Nationals have lost
but one game in competition with
Springtime foes, that to the Louis
vile Colonels at Mobile a week
ago.
In all they have taken part in 10
games and won 9, excluding the two
victories of the second team over the
Gulf Coast semi-pro champions, the
Biloxi Bakers.
Baltimore has tried no less than five
times to earn the verdict over Walter
JohnSon'S lads and five times the out
come has been just the reverse Of Fritz
MaiSel's desire.
Louisville was met three times once
here at Biloxi and twice at Mobile. In
two of these the Griffs came out on
top. Toledo and Spring Hill College
also were numbered among the victims
OF course, these triumphs in the
grapefruit area were made at the ex-
penSe of minor league teams and so too
much credit cannot be attached to the
glory to which the Nationals are help
tng themselves.
No major league club will have
heigned to set foot in these out-of the
sway parts until this coming Friday,
when Brooklyn's Dodgers, no longer the
clowns of the National League, accord
ing to advance reports, move on Biloxi,
with Hack Wilson, new leaf turner,
among them.
MORE victims of Washington batting
1v1 and Washington pitching fell on
two fronts in this vicinity yester-
day. At Gulfport Baltimore met de-
feat for the fifth time at the hands of
Fred Marberry, Monte Weaver and
Frank Ragland. The score was 8 to l.
At Biloxi the Washington seconds again
took the measure of the Biloxi Bakers
In game featured by triple play. The
score of this set-to was 8 to 2.
The triple play, which caused much
chatter at the dinner table tonight, was
made in the seventh inning after the
Seconds had salted away the game bv
virtue OF Dave Harris hard-hit single
scoring two mates
There were two Bakers on base in the
seventh, one on first and one on second.
And there was none down. The batter
blasted line drive directly at pitcher
Bud Thomas. Thomas, unable to get
out Of the way, hung on to the ball
Wh1rled quickly and heaved to Second
Baseman Harris for the second out and
Dave Just as quickly snapped throw
TO Nick Altrock, playing first for the
third.
Nick played the entire game on the
initial sack inasmuch as Joe Judge was
with the Regulars in Gulfport and Joe
Kuhel is sporting an injured hand and
CID not get into uniform Altrock per-
formed in flrst-class fashion.
CoMETHING like 500 fans. lured to
~ Gulfport for a glimpse of "Old
1ronSides" on exhibition there.
Watched the Nationals trounce Balti-
more.
Johnson's men slowed away the de-
cision as early as the second inning, in
which they Tailed twice. For good
measure they pushed across two runs in
the sixth and four more in the eighth.
Baryl Richmond and Walter Tauscher,
the latter a former National, were the
pitchers whaled.
While their mates were pounding the
two Baltimore hurlers for 13 hits, Mar
berry, Weaver and Ragland were hold
ing the Orioles to six, only two of which
came in an inning
Marberry, making his first start of
the season, hurled the first three
innings and granted four hits and no
runs. Weaver was nicked for one hit
and no runs in the second three inning
shift. Raglsnd toiled the final trio OF
stanzas. He also allowed one hit. Of
Rags in the eighth, a triple, by Heinie
Sand and Rogers long fly accounted
for the lone Baltimore run
Baltimore will be met again to-
morrow.
morning workout that included every
thing from batting practice to road
work