Evening star., 1933-02-23
ALL VET PITCHERS
REPORT FOR DRILL
Johnson, New Catcher, With
Squad Cronin Handles
in First Workout.
BY TOM DOERER.

DILOXI, Miss, February 23.-
X Manager Joe Cronin's pen
IL nant seeking. Nationals
We e r n batterymen,
rockies, coaches and an inf1elder,
or two, came out of today's light
exercises with their flag aspira-
lions, optimism, and leg muscles
not even slightly ruffied.
1t was the first workout by the Ma
tionals under the tutelage and guidance
Of the new boss, the boy manager on
whom all base ball is FOCUSING its at
Sention to see where he is going with a
Sevamped and punchy ball club.
There wasn't anything unusual or
trenuous in todays kink loosener. 1t
was a tame affair, as all Of these open
Ing day skirmishes are, consisting of q
little pepper on a small scale, canter
around the ball yard, some calisthenics
Rnd a minute or two Of verbal advice
from Cronin.
the boys out on the field to watch the
birdie for the camera men. They did
nothing other than pose, but today's
opening was the official one, the first
the fighting boy from Frisco ever has
held.
"I'll' not go in for anything revolu-
tionary in the way of prepping the boys
for the fiag-and we are after it-but I
will have a few stunts of my own to
work before the prepping period is over"
he said when asked about his training
plans.
yIJHEN the troupe of Nationals which
w left Washington Tuesday arrived
last night it made the squad of
players at camp 18 in addition to 2
coaches, a trainer and an assistant
trainer.
While Bobby Burke surprised Presi-
dent Clark Griffith by coming to camp
ahead of his usual schedule, three other
players, Bob Friedrichs, pitcher, and
Catchers Moe Berg and Luke Sewell,
had not arrived with the batterylnen.
But their absence is accounted for
by telegramS at camp headquarters.
Sewell, due to Illness at home, will not
arrive until Saturday. FTiedrichs, for
the same reason, cannot get to camp
until late this afternoon. Berg is ex-
pected to be on deck by Saturday. AL
Schacht insists Moe has been detained
by visiting the Shah of Persia while
travelling abroad.
THOSE in camp are: Pitchers, Bob
i Burke. Alvin CroWder. Edward
Linke, William McAfee, Jack Rus
sell, Walter Stewart, Alphonse Thomas,
Luther Thomas, Monte Weaver, Earl
Whitehill, Lloyd Cassell, John Burrows,
Paul Lines, Ellsworth Hazard; catchers.
Cliff Bolton, William johnson; inf1eld-
erS, Joe Cronin, Johnny Kerr; Coaches,
AL Schacht and Nick Altrock; trainers,
Mike Martin and Frankie Baxter.
With IA pitchers to handle, eight of
whom have had varsity experience,
Cronin. Kerr and the catchers will have
q merry time In wedding out the boys
within the next few days. It looms as
q big task and one which is going to
use up lot of good, heady base ball
thinking.
NEW faces in the batch here are
IN Burrows and Lines, a pair of right
handed rookie pitchers from the
West. Burrows, who came here with q
lot Of confidence in himself, but with
. round-trip ticket purchased from out
OF his own jeans, Is from Arizona. He
Is a lettuce patch puzzle like Cassell,
the big kid from Virginia. Lines IS
from Blackfoot, Idaho, and has played
college ball with the University of
idaho.
johnson, the catcher. too, is a new
comer to all hands. He caught with
Norfolk last year and was shot out into
the open market when the Eastern
League hit the rocks of financial diff
culties. He is a medium sized young
ster, but, according to Griffith good
prospect.
yTJHEN the remainder of the flock
wv gathers here next week Griffith
will have 80 base ball players in
lamp battling for jobs. There will not
be chance for most of the rockies
of ever getting look-in at berth on
q team that comes into camp very
much set as to its 1888 personnel.
Bob Boken, the tall infielder from
Kansas, will get a thorough looking
over So will Cecil Travis, the young
ster who has made good at Chatta-
nooga, for he must make the grade as
q regular or go back. But when the
gray ranger gets to welding his ak In
few weeks it is apparent that Joe
Cambria, in Albany; Tony Citrano, at
youngstown, and Joe Engel, at Chat
tanooga, will get some rather promis-
ing material. And it is possible that
shipment may be made to Kansas
to take care of what is due on Boken
In all, this first glance at the Ma
tionals assembled here suggests that
this is going to be, not only big year
In the fight for the flag, but one at
camp, too.