Evening star., 1933-04-03

~ Luke Sewell to catch and
the batting order to be the
one first tried in the recent At
lanta exhibition series will be, it
now looks, the Nationals slate
their opening game of the Ameri-
can League season in Washington
on April II.
Manager Joe Cronin has not COM
mitted himself as to the batterymen for
the fray with the Athletics that day,
but the boy field boss regards his latest
Arrangement of batters the best yet and
intimates he is through with expert
ments in this line.
His turn advanced day from the
original schedule, Crowder was to hurl
six innings this afternoon in the final
game of the series with the Lookouts
here, then head for his home in Win
ston-Salem, NJ c. He will report to
the club again in Washington on
Thursday and take another turn in an
exhibition game, probably that with the
Brooklyn Dodgers in Griffith Stadium
on Friday.
He then would have four days in
which to do mild conditioning work and
should be fit as a fiddle for the inaug-
ural clash.
There seems no doubt as to Sewell's
choice for the catching job in the
opening encounter He Is the most ex-
perienced backstopper with the Ma
tionals, the logical choice for the as
signment. There will be plenty for Cliff
Bolton, the rookie member of the
catching squad, to do later on. The
club will want his solid slamming. But
Sewen gets the call for the start next
week.
Kuhel, Myer, Manush, ,Cronin, Goslin.
Schultz, Bluege This is the fifth ar
rangement for the first seven batters
Manager Cronin has tried. He believes
it to be the best listing of the lot and
this morning said he saw no. reason to
try any more shifts.
ssVTTHILE / still consider Myer
w clever lead-off batter, I feel
We'll get more out of Kuhel-
Myer order than a Myer-Kuhel one,"
declared Joe. 'Kuhel is a good hitter
and gets on often. He's also heady
base runner and works well with the
batter following him. Myer, a strong
batter, gets on base a lot, too. Not
SO tall, he's harder to pitch to than
Kuhel Buddy doesn't offer so much of
target at the plate.
Whats more, Myer is not single
field hitter. He hits in all directions"
the manager went on to explain, while
Kuhel sends most of his drives to right
Such hitter back of one of Kuhel's
type looks to me better placed than he
would be ahead. AS they now are in the
hak 4xx,D ,r1,f 90 do
much for U.S."
Taking the fourth position himself
and placing Goslin fifth is done to get
an alienation Of strong left and right
hand swingers, Cronin pointed out
''Heinie Manush Is an ideal third-place
batter, think the manager said. "He
belongs in the spot where most clubs put
their most dangerous hitter. Manush
certainly has been that with us. Goose
Goslin, too. is dangerous, bat like Heinie
the Goose is a left handler, and deem it
better to keep away from succession of
left handlers.
g. A S it is, we now have three of
"A them in a row, Kuhel, Myer and
Manush. It's time to stop after
that. That's the main reason I'm step
ing up back Of ManuSh. Then along will
come Goslin and the right-handed Fred
attack from that combination" the boy
field boss argued. I'm confident we will.
II had intended using Ossie Bluege as
second-place batter, but after he had
good trial in that place I decided he
would mean more to the club in seventh
position. Ossie may be counted upon to
hit long ball often, and the records
show that every season he drove over
good share of the Washington runs.
Batting back of string of hitters who
should get on the base paths lot,
Bluege ought to send many to the plate
"Ossie Is fast one on the bases, too.
In seventh place he would be in q spot
to give his club full advantage of his
speed in connection with anything the
catcher and pitcher might do extensively
This batting order looks good to me,
better than any tried" and to emphasize
his belief in its possibilities the boy field
boss wound up. I'm expecting to last"