Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08
HOPE TO ADD GAME
ITO TRIO WITH TRIBE
More CLASHES With Atlanta
Sought-Contracts Not
Yet Sent Out.

* OIuIl Gl4CoC Ooyo 10 ClAS
ID scheduling of exhibition
games for the Nationals
this Spring. Thus far President
Clark Griffith has succeeded in
listing Is, and is quite hopeful of
adding half a dozen more to the
lot.
Topping the exhibitions booked
to date are three with the Cleve-
land Indians, the first ever for the
Nationals with an American
League club to be played prior to
the opening of the championship
campaign.
Two OF these engagements are for
New orleans ON Saturday and Sunday,
March Is ana 10. The ether viii be
played in Biloxi, Miss, the training
camp of the Nationals, on Saturday,
March 25. 1t will mark the final ap-
pearance of the Washington club in the
town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast next
Spring.
These games with the Indians were
on intra-league exhibitions at the
American League meeting in New York
last month.
GRIFFITH now is endeavoring to
VI book still another game with the
Cleveland club to be played at
Biloxi. The Chamber of Commerce OF
thai thriving little town has assured
the Washington prexy of support for as
many as two tussles between the big
lsaguers.
- Prexy Clark also is dickering for more
Tits with the Atlanta club of the South
en- Association, with which outfit three
games already have been scheduled.
The Crackers are to train in Mobile,
Ala, something like 80 miles from
Biloxi, and both Griffith and Wilbert
Robinson, former National League pilot,
now handling the Atlanta bunch, be-
1ieve additional contests would prove
profitable.
These old friends are hoping to put
on a home-and-home series, with two
games to be staged in Biloxi and as
many in Mobile.
TAAIP will be established at Biloxi on
~ February %, when the battery
squad will assemble there The
pitchers and catcherS Will get a thor
ough workout before the remainder of
the club reports, for the inflelders and
Cut1elders will not be due on the Mis-
siSsippi field until March 5.
Although the Biloxi exhibition sched-
ule still IL quite sketchy, the Nationals
will have plenty to do after they break
camp before embarking upon the quest
Tor what laurels they may gather in
the American League battling. On the
way up TO washington from the Mis-
sIssippl coast they will enter IL exhi-
mt,ons and four more are to be played
here.
This part CT the exhibition schedule.
which has been announced before. in
GUIDES games at Birmingham on March
26, q, 29 and 90; at Atlanta on March
80 ana 81 and April l at Chattanooga
on April e1ld 3; at Knoxville on April
q and and with Brooklyn of the Ma
tlonal League on April and z and
Buffalo of the International League on
April 8 and 9 In Griffith Stadium.
DRESIDENT GRIFFITH probably will
A mail contracts to his players this
week, although he has not vet re-
oeived the blanks from the Chicago
cf1ice of Judge KeneSaw Lands. com
missioner Of base ball. The contract
Tor the 1888 season contains several
new and altered clauses due to Iegisla-
ton effected at the December meetings
CT the mao leagues and perhaps the
J4dge has been held up by his printer.
heretofore the clubs have had the
blanks az hand before the first of the
y2aT.
However, Griffith has been in commu-
ricatlcn with his players and declares
Re anticipates no difficulty IN getting
them into line. That salary slashes will
&c Iclt by the Nationals is indicated in
The preXy'5 letters already sent them.
He stated clearly the circumstances Of
Inc washington club, stressed the un-
fortunate conditions at present affect
ing the country and intimated that the
players would do well in preparing their
budgets for 1888 for q more limited
mode OF living than formerly.
There will be some dissatisfaction
and perhaps some bitter back-firing in
the players reactions to the Grifflthian
expressions and suggestions. But the
washington clubs boss doesn't worry
over such. Every year after the con-
tracts are dispatched by the club there
is more or less kicking. Rarely, though.
90 the estimates of valuation vary so
mat the differences cannot be easily
adjusted.
Griffith already has heard from sew
e-al Of the Nationals and states they
seemed satisfied with conditions. He re-
c2iVed a letter only yesterday from Fred
Schulte in which the outfelder recently
Procured from the st. Louis Browns
declares he is well pleased with the
Grange and already is conditioning him
Ttf that he may be in fine trim to
Jump into the training grind in the
Spring.
All the letters from players will not
I2ake such pleasant reading as Schultes s.
LlJ Griffith will be prepared to deal
With the squawkerS individually. He
las had plenty experience in that line
and rarely has lost an argument.