Evening star., 1932-02-20
BY TOM DOERER.
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ITHEY'RE of!
There goes the advance
i guard Of your Griffmen,
chins up, hopes high, flag
conscious, bound for Biloxi, Miss,
where they will gather to take
the kinks out Of their muscles,
cobwebs from their shanties and
to pay a lot attention to teacher.
Only one player was In the group
Boyle. sandlot pitcher from Bayonne,
N. ].
Others In the party were Manager
Walter johnson, Coaches Nick Altrock,
AL Schacht and newspaper men.
En- route to the Biloxi training base
Cliff Bolton, catcher, and Luther
Thomas, recruit hurler belonging to the
Chattanooga club, will be picked up.
Bolton will be met at his home in High
Point. N. c. and Thomas at Charlottes-
Vile.
others are converging upon the camp
from their homes in many sections Of
the country.
Mike Martin, trainer, and Frank
Baxter, club house custodian, arrived at
the prepping plot Thursday, while
Pitchers Alvin Crowder and Charles
Fischer arrived yesterday by motor.
THERE should be no holdouts this
i year and only the usual amount of
quibbling with the front Office on
the part of the players. It's one of
those years. Just as there may be very
i,4& d.,
the grapefruit belt, because Uncle Clark
Griffith has planned well for his flag
fight Of 1892.
But it Is going to be an interesting
training siege, Just the same. No matter
how strongly entrenched a veteran may
be you never can tell when an aspiring
youngster will pop up to scatter ability
and flash all over the training lot.
Those kids have habit Of doing that.
And you never can tell when q vet
IS going to develop earache. writer's
cramp or gout. When they show signs
at camp there always Is a furry and
shifting around which makes the fans
ears wiggle and their eyebrows arch.
IN q few days the pitchers will be
i awakening to wonder where they
picked up all Of those extra hurting
arms during the night.
They will be arguing that no one
arm could sting and ache like their
salary whip. And when they go to
raise their Tipping member they will
wonder who tied the Biloxi town monu-
ment on it during the night.
And when some of them try to flex
their limbs they will contend that all
of the armies in the world are having
hand-to-hand conflict within the
muscles and that the Japanese are bonn
harding the International Settlement
again, In the territory adjoining their
shoulder blades. They will think the
Japs are fighting with razor blazes, can
openers and dull saws and that the
can lids, pick axes and broken bottles.
It merely means that your pal pitch
er is going for sweet ride on q Charley
horse. And that billy goat always IS
most frolicsome in the grapefruit belt.
That boy believes all he reads. And
when he voices the belief that the
sunny South stun Is bunk q native will
stand In a downpour and bet him that
it hasn't rained in Biloxi In nine years,
come next grass.
WHEN that pitcher hops out Of
w the hay and puts his foot on
the floor he will Immediately
realize that the first round of the
fight is merely on. His legs will
feel as heavy as the national debt,
as painful as paying q bill and as
futile as trying to borrow q dollar
from q rookie.
There will be blisters on his feet,
peanut whistles blowing In his joints
and carbon In his shinbone. Fire
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