Evening star., 1933-03-13
WOULD POINT VETS
, FOR TRIBE TUSSLES
;
Slab Second Stringers Are
=; WabbIy-SchuIte WalIops,
But GriffS Lose.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
~ HOXI, Miss, March 49,
X Now that the fedglings
= and second -stringers of his
:. pitching staff have been
! tried-and to no little extent
i, found wanting-Manager Joe
, Cronin very likely will press into
: hill service before the week ends
members of the Nationals "big
five" He needs 'em.
Cronin had intimated he would re-
serve Messrs. Crowder, Weaver, White
hill, Stewart and Thomas for action
: against the Cleveland club, the only big
Z. league foe scheduled for the Nationals
during their Southern sojourn, which
Z will be met in a series CT games starting
r Saturday. The wabbly work of his
q pitchers thus far, though, is expected
. to bring about revision of plans.
The Atlanta club, which evened
scores with the Nationals by taking a
fuzzy 14-to-11 game here yesterday, will
be met for the third time Wednesday.
On Friday the Pelicans of New Orleans
will come over to Biloxi Park for pas
timing Looks as though Manager Joe
will hustle some of the big five" into
these tilts with the minor leaguerS.
q Only for an inning or two, perhaps,
will the veterans get the call. Such
brief terms, however, might be just the
thing to loosen them for the clashes
: with the Indians. And Cronin is bent
upon spanking these league rivals
) Then, too, the boy manager doesn't
relish having his outfit shown up by
> the minor talent. These exhibition
games mean little so far as winning is
concerned, many veterans will tell you,
d. but not so Cronin. He figures a club
. should develop Zest for winning be-
fore it gets into championship cham
paign.
=. The young leader isn't apt to pass up
opportunities for victory in any of the
G training tussles.
sTHERE was nothing impressive about
L the performance yesterday of the
two hurlers who have been nomi-
q, mated for second-string duty with the
Nationals this year. Neither Bill Nc
, Afee, who hung up such a fine record
after joining the club late last season,
- nor Jack Russell. the lanky lad trans
=. ferred from the Indians in the Winter,
A. McAfee, starting, was f1icked for four
hits and as many runs in the first four
- frames, while Russell. going to the hill
4. in the sixth inning with one-run lead,
, went sky-high in the last two rounds,
1 to give up eight runs and the game
In yielding 10 hits, he was nothing like
the Russell that harassed the Nationals
so often when he served 'em up for the
Red Sox.
!, Between these semi-veterans, John
Burrows, the left-handed rock from
Phoenix, Ariz., got an inning test. 1t
. was rough one for the 19-year-old
He was raked for a quartet of safeties
: and a tally. Burrows also gave up a
: base on balls and was guilty of a balk
, He had a nervous time.
EOR five frames, the regular WASH
~ ington lineup was in action. Then
the youngsters were dribbled into
the fray. In all, the collection gathered
Ill hits. But one was made off Bob
-Hasty, right-hander who once wore the
oAthleics' uniform, in his three rounds
9 on the slab. Bunny Hearn, south
paw who formerly slanted for the
! Braves, proved easier in the next three
innings. He was nicked for seven raps
and the Nationals managed to get
lOIlt-l u1l lcdu LII Iilc AlIll. 1llcy dioO
a. hit Wise in the last three sessions, but
mot sufficiently to offset the terrific
humping Russell took
=, Excepting Cronin, all regular fielders
the Nationals had at work walloped
safely. but Fred Schultz, the new GEN.
ter fielder, came through with the only
redeeming feature of the attack He
helped himself to two hits, one homer
when Heinie Manush was on base, to
,put his club in front in the fifth, and
aone triple.
The triple was lusty blow to the
far reaches of center in the big Biloxi
= field. Looked as though it would have
5 been a homer had it been socked in
Griffith Stadium