Evening star., 1933-04-01
CONTROL SOLE NEED
OF SOUTHPAW NOW
Ex-Tiger, Down to ITO, Is
Strong, but WiId-Rain
Gives Atlanta a Tie.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

A TIANTA, Ga, April Earl
~ Whitehill looks fit. He says
4 \ that at ITO he IS down to
the lowest weight he has
carried in several years and his
left arm appears to be good and
strong. All this new southpaw
slabman with the Nationals now
has to work on is control. An
Improvement in that and White
hill should give the Washington
Club some high-grade hurting
right from the outset OF the nag
fracaS.
OF the stable group Of veteran
pitchers with the Nationals Whitehill
has been the most earnest in training
in several respects. The portsider
picked up from the Tigers in Win
ter barter is inclined to stoutness and
he let himself get a little too heavy for
his own good during the off-Season so
after reporting at the Biloxi camp Earl
had to set about shedding the extra
poundage, and that was no easy task.
It meant the rubber shirt for him.
The sweating process brought down
the weight nicely, but it weakened
Whitehill some, SO he had to build up
his underpinning; that was tedious
business. 1t weakened him more, then
he had to get the pitching arm in trim
and at the same time so adjust his
training that he might regain that
sapped strength.
Earl did all that and came through
In great shape Strong In limb and
body, trim in figure. But he hadn't
had time for the needed throwing to
perfect control. He's attending to that
task now.
yITHITEHILL has worked in three
w games now-not counting that in
formal intraclub affair in which
he pitched for the yannigans against
the regulars-and has yielded in IA
innings IL hits, 9 passes and 7 runs.
Two runs were of the unearned kind,
though. Earl's passes have figured
more than the hits off him in the scor-
ing by the opposition. Walks either led
to or were mixed in the tallying of
runs. That's why the Nationals new
southpaw is bearing down on the busi-
ness of finding the target.
Earl gave up three passes yesterday
and one blazed the way to the Crack
ers' first tally of the game they dead
locked at "A before darkness and rain
ended hostilities while the Cronin crew
was up for its seventh batting turn.
The other passes didn't help the At
lanta club but four of the five hits
they cleaned off the left-hander did
One was a homer, driven into the left
field stand in the fourth inning by
Freddy Sington. the big boy whose
sensational batting and fielding Jeat
the Nationals Thursday.
In the sixth the home side hoped
on Earl for two doubles and a single
before a batter was retired to knot
the count.
Earl helped the Atlantans to their
third-frame score to a greater extent
than issuing pass. He threw wildly
when trying to pick off the batter he
had franked to first base. The weird
chuck let the Cracker reach third from
where he counted on an infeld erasrre.
Despite the late hitting at his ex-
pense, Whitehill looked good on the
hill, aside from his wabbly control. He
was free enough in action. But he
must get down to pitching to a spot.
IT was Cecil Travis day at Ponce de
i Leon Park, the home of the Crack
ers, and the rook infielder, who
comes from the village of Riverdale.
JUST IL miles OUT OF TINS city, nVed up
to the occasion. He played at third all
the way and fielded fashily. He also
drove over two Washington runs and
scsred one. Cecil really gave his home
folks. who came into town for the game,
q great treat.
He tripled in the second session to
score GoSlin, who had singled, then
tailed as Sewell hit for a base His
long fly to center in the fourth got Cos
lin home again. The Goose had doubled
and moved up to third on Schulte's
hoist.
The Nationals last run-made in the
fifth-came from Kuhel's double and
ManuSh'S one-baser.
Cronins charges got eight hits in all
off Bill Blethen, a right-hander, but
were not stirring at bat outside that
second inning. when they hung up two
runs. Four hits were made by them
then, a double by Whitehill that fol-
lowed the tallying attack being wasted
when Kuhel grounded out to leave two
Nationals stranded.