Evening star., 1932-04-02
CLUB IN FINE MOOD
AS It HEADS HOME
Win Over Brooklyn, First
Major Foe, PIeases-SIam
by Cronin Tells.
BY TON DOERER.

- ELMA, Ala, April 2.-Your
Uncle Clark Griffith's Ma
~ tionalS, with a ninth-inning
victory over the Brooklyn
Dodgers tucked away under their
belts, now are to enter into a sort
of family tuSSle with the Chat
tanooga club of the Southern As
sociation. Some got off here for a
game this afternoon, while a third
of the party went rambling on to
Chattanooga, where there will be
tilts tomorrow and Monday.
1t was a merry, satisfied flock that
came into this 'Bama town this morning,
pleased with weeks of training and
tickled with the way the exhibition
games have gone in their favor
Rockies knowing that their ears may
be pinned back within the next few
days were happy just the same Rook
hurlers, who know that if Ad Liska
shows any kind of form in the grape
fruit battles here they will be left for
Chattanooga to null over, did not seem
TO care a lot.
WHETHER Biloxi again will be the
w training site of the Nationals
still was a matter of doubt today
Brooklyn has been invited to train at
Biloxi by the Chamber of Commerce
and civic organizations, according to
Tony RaguSin, secretary of the Chamber
Of Commerce. The Dodgers will not
train at Clearwater next year, but they
will not train at Biloxi, either, accord
ing to members of the party discussing
the subject back in Mississippi last
night Miami, it is said, will be the
practice ground of the Brooklyn team.
Clark Griffith, however, was agreeable
to the Dodgers training at Biloxi, but
two teams drilling at one park would
be impracticable, players agreed.
CRIFFITH was much heckled and a
~ little peeved about the rumors that
trades were on for some of his
players and that Joe Judge was to
become Dodger property.
More runors than would fill Aunt
Minnie's hat have been floating around
camp about trades and sales, but all
of it is mere chatter at the moment.
There is no doubt but that Brooklyn
could use Judge. But so could Detroit
and Cleveland and it is two to one that
neither would let the veteran first
sacker get out of the circuit by the
waiver route.
That there will be q deal after the
team gets back home is not so vapory
In substance. Walter johnson and his
boss are hard after a pitcher and both
would trade their vets for anything
that appears to be pitcher.
Judge, however, Is going great. His
triple yesterday against the Dodgers
was great one and his stops were
fast, smart and as youthful as the next
fellows. Surely, as Judge looked yes
terday, any club in need of a good first
baseman would have pined for him.
VEsTERDAY's first major league
l. clash for the Griffs was a ball
game the boys back home would
have liked to have seen. It was sizzler
from the tap of the gong, see-sawing
and then bursting wide open when Joe
Cronin rif1ed a ninth-inning shot into
left field, which sent the winning run
romping home to end the conflict. lilo.
With the Score standing at 1913 in
favor of the visitors to Biloxi, Judge
opened the Nationals ninth with walk
and Bluege also strolled. Here Kerr
picked up Ragland's bat and smote a
I1AOuSn 10 put one run
across. Berg'S pass filled the bases, but
Bluege was nipped at the plate on
Myers roller Manush singled over the
tying run and following Vests strike
out Cronin's crash put the Dodgers out
Walter Johnson's promise that he had a
new and greater punch to his machine
looks to be okay.
Not only did the sockers do their
best, but Fred Marberry used a wicked
bat on the enemy, hitting a homer.
Fred had one bad inning, in which the
Dodgers took him over for six runs, in
the third. Seven hits were registered
off his slantS.
Ragland was pounded for three runs
and three hits in the eighth, Cohen.
the Dodger left fielder, smacking out
a triple that upset the big rookie.
Biloxi's final gesture was a pleasing
one. A crowd of nearly 1000 fans, the
biggest ever to turn out to see the
Griffs in action at Biloxi was on hand