Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-08
EACH STATE SEEN
AS HOUSING CHAMP
Yanks, Macks Prime in Dixie,
Cubs, BUGS, Giants Prepare
on Pacific Soil.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

BY GRANTLAND RICE.
7 OS ANGELES, Calf, March
| 8.-The battle between Cali
L. fornia and Florida as train
ing camp centers will reach
one of it's tallest peaks this season.
California comedies the American
League debate to Florida with the
Yankees and Athletics training under
the blue Spring skies that hover above
Ponce de Icons tabled Fountain of
Eternal Youth. But California already
is claiming the National League pen
nant with Cubs, Pirates and Giants now
hard at work getting ready to exude
pink from every open pore.
California is right in this respect
the Cubs and Pirates will undoubtedly
be there when the late September
showdown arrives-and the Giants at
least are possibility.
Here is the way the situation looks
at this angle CubS-a good, all-around
ball club with a flock of high-grade
pitching in the persons of Pat Ma
lone, Guy Bush, Lon Warneke, Bur-
leigh Grimes and Charley Root - one
of the best pitching stats in either
league.
one young star such as Warneke
happens to be is big jump in the
pennant direction-aS he is pretty sure
to cash in on Is games-provided there
Is any cash loose. Bush, Malone and
Root are consistent workmen and Bur-
leigh Grimes looks to be in much better
shape than he was year ago.
This Cub pitching staff gives Chicago
q great chance to pick up another pen
nant. There is nothing as helpful to
the morale of a ball club as steady
pitching day by day-and the Cubs can
bank on steady pitching from April to
october.
Pirates and Giants.
THE Pirates, working farther north
L along the California terrain, are
just about an even shot with the
Cubs.
They have the leagues best outfield
In the two Waners and Freddy Lind
strom, fast, hard hitting, run-get-
ting trio who will break up many a
close contest before the 1888 season
closes out.
They have good infield and good
pitching to count on-some young
pitchers who are now just about ready
to cash in on more experience.
That big slump we had last sea-
son was a funny one" Paul Waner
SAID. I'VE seemed to have the pennant
packed away. We had good lead and
were just breezing Then about three
OF us quit hitting and some of our
best pitchers began to wobble 1t all
happened without any warning. And
before We knew it we had not only
blow a big lead, but were five or six
games back. I don't think that will
happen again"
It will take considerable amount
OF base ball to dislodge both Cubs and
Pirates-California's two main selec-
tons.
What about the Giants? They will
be much better ball club than they
were a year ago. They will be quite
a ball club if they can get good pitch
1ng-but this is the big gamble.
The Giant staff at this early date
doesn't rate with the Cubs-or match
that of the Pirates, Dodgers and Braves.
They can bank on Fitzsimmons and
Hubbell-and here the banking fades
out. The rest is a guess.
II Travis JackSon'S UNDERMINING
doesn't cave in and both legs hang on
Tor the duration of the campaign, Bill
Terry will have much better chance to
Keep somewhere in the middle of the
show
Jackson is great ball player on two
legs-and no man is a great ball player
working on only one.
These three clubs are now getting
great weather to work in. 1t has been
sunny and balmy-but not too hot
somewhere in the neighborhood of IS
or 80.
Waner and Motion Pictures.
LEW may know it just at this mo-
L ment, but Paul Waner, the crack
Pirate outfielder, has gone into the
motion picture business on large scale
Waner has shot nearly 10000 feet of
deep sea fishing and bird life around
the Florida Keys.
He has herons and cranes in album
dance-the ids, and, better than all,
the hamingo, in large groups.
He has two striking features in the
capture OF an 1,800-pound sawfish and
devil fish or ray about the size of a
big room.
Max Carey, the Dodger mandarin,
helped in bagging the 1,8OO-pound saw
fish, which has jagged snout about
feet long made out of bone This is
the prize schnozzle on either land
or sea.
The ray was harpooned and one of
Waner's young assistants was thrown
overheard as the harpoon landed. In
place of swimming back to the boat
he caught the heavy line and climbed
on the broad back of the ray for
two-mile trip out to sea.
Waner himself is one of the best
fishermen in the country.
He would just as soon hook a big
fish as hit home run and spends
most of the late Fall and Winter
months in small boat, hooking any,
thing from an amberjack to a saw
fish or sailfish. The two Waners-
Paul and Lloyd-are among the lead
ers in the brother act, as both are
stars.
In this respect no one has yet matched
the Delehantys, who had five brothers
in various leagues. They were headed
by the famous Ed Delehanty. one of
the hardest hitters of all time. Jim
Delehanty was above the average. There
were Lave and Monte Cross. Lee and
Jess Tannegil and flock of others
one might mention. But the Waner
boys will still DO.
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