Evening star., 1932-04-06

LlOQdIS 1Ork-uSU6Q CWlFleT, !,
has gone arm conscious.
Mr.. Brown has arm on his
mind-if you know what l mean.
That is no place for any one to
have his arm, particularly a left
hand hurler, upon whom Uncle
Clark Griffith places so much de-
pendence this coming American
League base ball season.
Walter Johnson is trying to make
Lloyd keep his arm off his mind and
get down to work. But Brownie is in
sistent. Your uncle's very promising
portsider insists that his Tipping fin
Is populated by family Of pins, needles
and ice picks.
He is so convinced that something is
wrong with his arm that he left the
team today to go back to Chattanooga
for treatment. He will put himself
under the care of Lee Jensen, youthful
trainer of the Chattanooga Club, who
Is said to have a curing system which
brings shopworn arms back to first
class shape.
Is Liska a Sample?
But I'm wondering. Mr. Jensen is
working on Ad Liska'S arm. And after
looking at Ad trying to put something
on the ball other than hope and a
prayer last Sunday afternoon over in
Chattanooga I'm still trying to get bets
that Ad never used his arm at all that
afternoon.
But there are members of the Ma
tional's staff who believe there is moth
ing at all wrong with Brownies arm;
that he simply has become arm con-
scious and, as result, believes the
ordinary twingeS which occasionally
come into pitchers arms are something
serious and portend disaster.
So more to relieve a mental condi-
tion, they say, than to fix up an arm
which is okeh, Walter johnson has per-
mitted the southpaw to go over to Chat
tanooga to have the trainer look it over
Brownies arm was just so-so yester-
day afternoon against the Knoxville
Club of the Southern Association. He
had one bad inning out of four. a
spot where these minor league club
berS walloped him for four blows and
two runs. But these young men from
q lower class loop had one of those
days, you know. They socked Monte
Weaver, the reformed professor, and
prof's arm. Yet the Smokes belted
two of the sweetest home runs you
would want to see off the pedagogue's
fast one. Henry Jones' Smoke first
sacker, and Howard Friegau, the third
sacker, smacked the onion over left
field fence. a distance of 339 feet some
feet deeper than left sector in Yankee
Stadium.
One of Those Smacking Days.
1t was one of those smacking days.
Moe Berg, the catcher for your Ma
tionals, got one for himself in the second
inning. Then Joe Kuhel, pinch hitting
for Weaver, smacked the longest one
of the day, high one over center field
fence, a distance of $50 feet. Bluege
also registered one.
Brownie went in to relieve Monte in
the sixth, when the enemy had four
runs and four hits piled up on the
professor. Three doubles and two hon.
ers had been chalked up against Monte,
who was having one CT those days when
he could not remember whether he was
out there in the ball orchard or on the
train back home. Homesickness makes
a fellow do funny things and Weaver's
peculiar trick was to keep sticking the
ball in the groove. Which was what
the doctor ordered for the Dixie hitters.
Brownies hurting wasn't as bad as
the three runs and the seven hits
booked against him. Those Knoxville
boys were on a rampage and pair of
boots by Buddy Myer and Joe Kuhel
did not help. The pair of mistakes
gave the Knoxville Club run, while
Denny Burns and Bill Prince, a pair of
rookie right -handers for the home club,
kept your Nationals power house from
functioning.
Reynolds Bat Silent.
For instance, that mighty bat of Carl
Reynolds, the willow which is supposed
to make the hitting difference between
last year and the coming season, was
as still as a dry at a wet party. What
Carl hit you can have. He never got
the pellet out of the infeld which is
rare down here for the punching right
handler. Carl has been going to the
hitting market and getting all the gro
ceries you would expect But, while
Reynolds failed to aid the Nationals
cause. Buddy Myer and Joe Judge
shared triples which meant runs and
the cracks of Berg and Kuhel did the
rest
And when you figure that Kuhel
came in cold, took two turns at the
plate and got two for one, one homer
and another single, which he tried
to stretch into a double, but failed, it
was not a bad day for some Of the
members of the club
Washington took the fracas 10-7,
nailed up three homers among its IS
hits and looked a little frayed at times.
But when a team comes to the top 10
out of II times while touring the citrus
l. l.