Evening star., 1933-04-28
FIGHTING PLAYERS
LEARN FATE TODAY
League Head to Fix Penalties
After Seeing Griff-CoId
Shelves CroWder.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

BY JOHN b. KELLER.
n IEW YORK, April 28.-Na-
M tionals and Yankees are
l Y due for another mix-up,
but the business in the
Bronx Park most likely will be
conducted peacefully, very peace
fully, so far as the players are
concerned. Only three days have
passed since these clubs cast eau
ton aside and went at one an
other toe-to-toe along the Po-
tomac, but here beside the placid
Harlem the pastiming should be
subdued.
With William Harridge, President Of
the American League and avowed op-
ponent OF braWling in base ball, looking
on, and his umpires cautioned to take
drastic action the moment the athletes
threaten to give vent to their feelings,
the games here today and tomorrow
are apt to be as mild and mannerly as
. diplomats visit to the head of q
creditor nation.
The boys may have fire in their eyes
and bitterness in their breasts, but
they'll also be thinking Of the pay cuts
that would follow outbreaks of what Is
mildly termed in some sports "unneces-
Eary roughneSs."
Buddy Myer, second baSeman, and
Earl Whitehill pitcher of the Nationals.
and Ben Chapman, outflelder of the
Yankees, principals in Tuesdays battle
OF Griffith Stadium, this morning were
expecting the worst when President
Harridge finally passes sentence on them
for their pugnacious pastiming. So
were the higher ups of both clubs. And
Fred Walker, utility outflelder, and
Vernon Gomez. southpaw slab ace, of
the Yankees, were fearful Of some pun
1shment for their share in the shindig
that brought police reserves on the run
to the Washington ball yard. All this
should serve to keep the athletes within
bounds in the short series here.
That's the opinion of the officials Of
both clubs, but Yankee headquarters
nevertheless has arranged to have an
extra detail of blue coats at hand as a
precautionary measure. The coppers
might come in handy.
HARRIDGE instead of settling the
i i affair yesterday decided to wait
until today for conference with
CLARK Griffith, president of the Wash
tngton club. He telephoned Griffith in
Boston late yesterday and said he pre-
ferred to have personal talk with the
Nationals executive and not corrduct
the investigation by wire.
Griffith was to see the league head
this morning at II o'clock and there
was possibility that Harridge would
announce the punishments meted out
to the battlers before the opening game
of the current series.
In his telephone conversation with
Griffith, the league president did not
request Manager Joe Cronin's presence
at the conference here nor did he ask
the appearance of Myef and Whitehill,
the offending players. However. all
three may be called in. for it is under
stood that in addition to George
Moriarty and Harry Geisel, who UNI
pired in the riotous Washington game
Harridge also sought information OF
Manager Joe Mccarthy of the Yankees,
Chapman and several other New York
players at the confab in Philadelphia
yesterday when the investigation OF the
fistic flareup was started
1t would seem only fair that the head
Of the league should listen to statements
of the principals on both sides when he
Is carrying on personal investigation.
TROUBLES never come singly, Cronin
is learning The suspensions OF
Myer and Whitehill were enough
10 bring burrows to the boy managers
forehead. Now fate comes through with
another new deal, and this time raw
one for his club.
AL Crowder rated the Nationals most
dependable pitcher this year and one OF
the outstanding pitchers Of the majors
last year. is the victim Of cold so Sc
we're he may not be able to go on the
hill again until after the washington
outfit starts its invasion of the West
next week.
Cronin had expected to start the
General in the series here or against
the Athletics in Washington next Sun
day, but now either plan seems out OF
the question. Crowder was suffering
with a slight cold when he left Wash
ington Tuesday and the raw weather
that prevailed in Boston so aggravated
the malady that the pitcher did not
even don a uniform yesterday.
The General still is sick man and
while there was a chance he would be
on the bench with the other athletes
this afternoon. he isn't apt to be pressed
into service even in a relief role during
the Nationals two-day stay here except