Evening star., 1932-03-08

IN nOXI, Miss, March 8. --
K Rookie hurlers went into
l. action for the second day
today, popping the pine
apple from the mound at plenty
of mean hitting. Crowder and
Fischer toiled a few minutes, also,
and the action that resulted was
very pleasing to Grih and john
son, as the Nationals went sour
rying into the third week OF
training.
A kink or two developed as a result
of today's and Yesterdays hard drilling
Bob Friedrich's neck was stiff today
and he was ordered out of action upon
the advice of Trainer Mike Martin.
Rags Ragland, the Mississippi boy,
pulled up with a sore leg and was
ordered to rest up. The workouts have
now reached a serious stage.
Joe Judge is facing his 1882 task with
more enthusiasm than was to be ex-
pected. Joe's new role is not the most
encouraging to a veteran, and many
would have gone into training action
with a more or less 1stless attitude.
Joe knows what Is facing him and
has known 1t for some time. Yet he
spent all of the Winter evenings in
Washington prepping and getting into
shape. He came to camp in both
happy mood and in the best physical
shape he has been in in years. He was
IA pounds under last years weight the
day he arrived.
nLANS are under way for the first
/ game here next Sunday against
Baltimore. Opening day cere-
monies will be in order with Mayor
Kennedy tossing in the first ball, amid
band playing and speechmaking. Griff
and Tony Ragusin of the local Cham
Der of Commerce have worked out the
details and everybody Is anxious for the
show to start. The game also will mean
the touch of competition needed by the
Griffs to whet their keenness for the
exhibition tilts to follow.
Add to those who are making weight:
Howard Maple, who reports his weight
to Trainer Mike Martin every morning
Today Howard, the rookie catcher
touched ITO pounds, about 10 pounds
under the weight at which he came
here, and pounds under the poundage
he packed when he was an all-America
foot ball player in 1928.
Martin has a half dozen youngsters
report to him every day. Each is max
ing weight. Mikes advice to them Is
"ret down to the weight at which you
feel best and then. being young, you
can pick it up whenever you feel that
YOU need it."
Mike will make lot OF chorus girls
out of this outfit before he Is through.
He Is forever talking diet and weight.
And not only the rockies, but the vets
are paying attention.
WOULD you like to know where Jim
w Londos, the champion wrestler
and great bronZed figure of
sports, secured the foundation for that
tan.
Biloxi and Biloxi sunshine, gentle
men, and the story here is that Jim
came down 2 years ago and laid the
basis for it. He left the Biloxi Hotel
each morning, rowed over to Deer Is
land, q few miles across the bay and,
sans clothing, laid in the sand nearly
all day. He continued this process for
over a week, leaving here the color of
a hickory nut.
This, according to good authority, is
how Jim keeps the high color to a re-
markable physique.
THE boy sent down here to give the
i batters something to hit is rated
as the best pitching prospect to
have come to camp in years. He Is Lu-
ther Thomas, the Charlottesville, Va,
youngster. property Of the Chattanooga
club.
Thomas is so rated by several Of the
veteran players in training and is the
particular rookie hurting prospect OF Al
Schacht, the Nationals third-base
coach.
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