Evening star., 1933-03-19
|ONLY AN Al ROOKIE
| CAN CRASH LINEUP
Richmond or Yerkes May Do
as Lefty Decreed Need of
Any Flag Winner.
BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

A VALON, Catalina Island,
~ March 18.-When you've
1 \ got an outfit that romped
away with the pennant the
year before, and virtually the en-
tire cast back again, there's no
particular reason for sitting down
and worrying over future pros
poets.
That's the position Manager Charley
Grimm OF the Chicago Cubs finds him
self in this Spring. so about all he has
to fret about is whether he can reach
into his scanty grab bag of youngsters
and come up with a southpaw pitcher
who will stand major league wear and
tear.
The Cubs released their only expert
enced southpaW hurler, jake May, dur
ing the Winter, and there is some sort
of an CID axiom of base ball that no
club can go on to bigger and better
things without one capable pitcher who
throws from the off side.
For that reason Manager Grimm has
brought five recruit moundsmen to the
Catalina camp this year, and three of
them are southpaws. If one should
click in appropriate fashion the Cubs
will be lot better off than they seem
to be just now. If one Of them doesn't
click Bill Veeck will have to go forth
and beg. borrow or steal a major league
southpaw some place. And that's a
rather large order now or at any other
time.
THE Cubs are said to have tried 10
i get Wild Bill Hallahan or one or
two other lett handlers during the
Winter and couldn't co it, despite the
fact that they we're willing to pay the
Wrigley price, which always has been
liberal
So Grimm is going to trust to luck
and his three fork-fsted youngsters
Only two of them are given serious con-
slderation. They are Beryl Richmond,
who won IL and lost IA games with
Baltimore last season. and Carroll
Yerkes, who won 10 and lost II with
Albany, N. Y. The third one is Roy
Henshaw, who was plucked from the
campus of the University of Chicago
He is a midget as pitchers go. being
only five feet eight inches tall and
weighing $50 pouncs. He had a great
record in college, however, and seems to
have lot of stuff that confuses hitters.
But he probably will need minor league
schooling before he's ready for the
higher strata of base ball
There are really four other recruit
hurlerS out here striving for jobs, II
you want to call Leroy Hermann and
Lyle Timing recruits. They are young
sters. but aren't really recruits in the
strict sense Of the word, as they were
with the Cubs last season. Timing,
especially. shows great deal of prom
Use and stepped into the midst of the
Cubs late drive for the pennant last
Fall to hurl some excellent base ball
There's sort of secret hope he's going
to turn out to be another Lon Warneke
THE other young hurlers are Lynn
L Nelson, who was in camp last
Spring and was sent to Seattle
for further seasoning. and Buck New
som, who came from Albany along with
| Southpaw Yerkes. Both Nelson and
Newsom are right handlers. The latter
got late start in showing what, if
anything, he can do in the way of big
league hurting, because he had no
sooner stepped off the beat from the
mainland than they carted him away
to the hospital to whittle of some soft
corns on his toes that we're exceedingly
| sore
| Breaking in on the Cubs as pitcher.
| however, is going to be ore of the
| toughest of all Jobs, when you consider
that Grimm still has such old tried and
! true standbys as Warneke, Guy Bush.
Charley Root. Pat Malone and Burleigh
Grimes. If any Of the youngsters can
make the rifle in the face of layout
like that it's pretty certain they'll be
considerable pitchers.
The Cubs have four catchers on tap
| this Spring. The holdovers are Gabby
| IL q arr1a t1,n
newcomers are Bill Campbell. who
prepped with Los Angeles last season.
and Gabby's young brother, John Hart
nett, who was brought along on Gabby's
word that the kid is due to be a whale
! Of backstop. Believing the trait MAJ
be family one, Grimm decided to
take a chance. So John is here.
HOWEVER, if anybody beats Gabby
i / out as the regular receiver it's
likely to be young Campbell. Over
in Los Angeles these who watched him
| last year say Campbell is a bang-up
catcher and ready for the majors. He's
hitter too. having had an average OF
.3l9 in the Coast League last season.
There are only two young fellows
striving to oust somebody from the in
field. They are Del Young from Fort
Wayne and Harry Taylor. a first base
to hang around as Grimm's understudy
But If Young expects to beat Woody
English, Bill Jurges or Billy Herman
out Of their infield jobs he'll have to
show a world of stuff.
The same situation confronts the
outfield recruits. Vince Barton is back
again, and so are Frank Demaree, Mike
Kreevich and Marvin Gudat. At least
two of them probably will stick as
utility men, but the regular outfield is
pretty certain to be Riggs Stephenson,
Kiki Cuyler and the newly acquired
Babe Herman.
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