Evening star., 1932-03-09
HE|N|E DUE TODAY
TO SIGN CONTRACT
Judge Looks Fine in Sharing
Fielding Practice With
KuheI at First Base.
BY TOM DOERER.

X The great conflict has end
- ed-the stupendous tussle
of verbs and 10-word tele-
grams. The non-resisting twain
broke when one faction gave away
Peace, happiness and tranquility
reign at the training camp today
of Mr.. Clark Griff1th's Washington
Nationals.
Heinie Manush, the balky holdout,
has signed meaning of course, he
has practically signed. II one must
get very technical with this fuzzy
business Mr.. Manush has not signed,
because he will not arrive at the bat
tie ground until late this evening. But
he agreed to sign at Griff's terms in
a short brief and snappy wire re-
ceived by the Gray pilot last night.
That ends that. And the matter
comes to a close with Heinie getting
only the original slice OF his very fat
salary of 1881. He was just on the
verge of taking deeper clip when he
took second thought and agreed to
come to camp.
Ended as Was Expected.
There never was much doubt here
that the balky outfielder would
be on hand in time to avoid being
plastered with fine. But while Heinie
loses a chunk of wherewithal, he also
gets himself a few days off from
Biloxi's sunshine and fresh air which,
they are saying, Is what Heinie did
not want. sfter all, because he was
getting plenty OF West Palm Beach
sun rays and beach air.
Mr. Ragusin of the Biloxi Chamber
# Commerce no doubt personally will
take up the matter with Heinie and sell
him Biloxi's air, giving him plenty Of
advantage and then showing him why
Biloxi is better than West Palm Beach
by two sea gulls, nine date palm trees
and two cans OF shrimp.
But the air now is clear Of rumors
and everybody Is down to the task Of
making the infielders perspire and the
batters hit.
Judge Cavorts at First Base.
For the second time during this train
ing siege the infielders broke into hectic
practice today. Out there on first base,
Just as sure as the chiefs prediction.
were Joe Judge and Joe Kuhel scrap
ping it out for that initial sack job.
Judge displayed plenty o. pepper and
took a longer turn at the job than his
younger rival. A Winter Of gym work
told its story as Judge galloped, bent,
leaped and sidewise tucked in the pellet.
Gentlemen, Mr. Judge looks sweet out
there and If his legs are aging and bit
rustry Mr.. Martin must have filled them
full of anti-creak oil before breakfast,
for there was not sound from the
underpinning.
But Kuhel carried no anchors. No,
sir, he did not. Joe from Kansas City
tucked in his allotted number. Quietly,
business-like and with no more alarm
and circus work than did Joe Boley play
his position at short for the Athletics.
Over on second were Johnnie Kerr
and Buddy Myer. displaying a lot for
johnson and Griffith, while Bluege, at
third, and Cronin, at short, snapped up
grounders and took liners just as you
have seen them do it.
Only the background Of palm trees
broke up picture which might have
been Griffith Stadium last year.
Tough Day for Rockies.
1t was another tough day for the
rookie pitchers, too. They speed up and
seem to sense that it will not be long
now before some one gets little notice
to take ride on Pullman. These
boys are getting on a nervous edge and
are beginning to quietly ask observers
how they are looking and what chance
do they think they have of sticking it
out
Within a few days Grif will have
reached that point where he will have
to do some deciding and cut a pitcher
or two from his pack. There would
be no sense in telling the customers
back home just who is going to get
the ak until the kid gets it. 1t is easy
to speculate and name two or three,
but it would be unfair ID the rocks in
question to chop off their ears in print
before Griff his to do that unkind job
himself
Lynn Grifith, however is going nice
~. Ragland the big Mississippi boy,
who has the State down here pulling
for him, is going over pretty srnartly,
and Bob Friedrich, the Cincinnati
youngster, has been slowed up by a
stiff neck. But so are the other boys
moving along, and it will be up to Mr..
Griffith to do the choosing for you.
Nice Bunch Of Kids.
So far as my unbiased eye can see,
this entire outfit Of kids would look
nice to have around on anybody's ball
CLUB. AND as Tor the rest OF the team,
outside of the catching department, it
is as about set as any you ever will
see and the matter at hand is merely
to get them into shape.
OF course. there's young Boyle out
in the outfleld. Something's got to be
done about a needed pinch hitting out
field When Manush and Dave Harris
get here 70 begin work then more will
be known. AS for the catching you'll
have to wait. also. Maple is down to
weight and is fast. Bolton is going well
and the veterans Ainsmith and Char
rity are in first class shape Roy
Spencer is as sure as last Sunday
And sitter all, even though there have
been weeks Of drilling here the aspect
OF the layout is no different than it was
before the pack of players arrived.
That is to be fair about the matter
Yet. touching back on young Boyle.
I can say with a slight bit Of authority
that the young man fees that year
back in the minors would b. OF greater
benefit to him than a season on the
bench with the majors He feels. it is
said, that a busy berth back as far as