The Washington times., 1934-03-20
By DAVIS J. WALSH

FORT M-'ERS, Fla, March 20.
Somebody, having a deft touch
with words, once said something
pretty bright about an embar-
tassme1t e: riches' Maybe it
was Shakespeare; it could have
been Shelley. It might even
have been Tunney. I'm not
much on tn. ! sort of thing,
owing to the fact that most of
my background seems to be
pretty much in my shirt front.
= Anyhow, whoever it was, he
wasn't talking about the pitch
ing staff of the st. Louis Car
dinals, according to Frank Fr1Sch,
the manager. Said Mr.. Frisch:
"They said we had too
:, pitchers. last year and, when
q the checks were down, we
e didn't have enough.
That's why we finished
fifth with q club that at least
was the second best in the
league. With all the pitchers
they said we had, we finally
wound up with three. They
<were able to win SO games.
The rest couldn't beat the
House Of Davii on one Of its
bad days"
- Paper Pitchers
The Cardinals seem to have a
lot Of good pitchers under con-
tract this time. That is, they're
good pitchers on paper. But pa
per pitchers are y 2 to be ike
paper napkins. After you U5e
them once, the next step is to
call in the board of health.
This strangely, is supposed to
be the strength Of the Cardinals
and yet it present their only valid
question. They're "shoulda
pitchers. Mr.. Dizzy Dean
"shoulda" been the best pitcher in
the league, but his record shows
20 won and 18 lost. Mr.. James o.
'Tex" Carleton won II and lost
IL. Mr., Lefty" Hallahan won 16
and lost IL. They "shoulda," but
somehow did not.
Mr.. James I. Mooney, the left
handler, looked like the best
pitcher in camp last spring. After
that, he looked like the worst in
America. Bill Walker, also left
handed, couldn't seem to get them
out. Jesse Haines, of course, has
become. a "spot" pitcher by this
time. Any time the "spot" looks
likely, they trundle Jesse out there
on his spawned arches and let
him have his fling.
This Is strictly q pitchers story,
because it's that kind of q club:
# the young men pitch to their
ability, the club could win the
pennRnt. II they don't, it won't.
~ Rhem q HOldout
In. addition to Carleton, Dean,
Hallahan, Haines, Mooney and
Walker, the 1888 outfit now has
Paul Dean, brother of Diz; Bur
leigh Grimes, doing a Ponce de
Leon at Hot Spring; Flint Rhem,
holding out for reasons that un-
doubtedly seem logical to Flint
Rhem; Ed Greer, Clarence HeiSe,
Bob Klinger and Jim Wintord.
HeiSe and Winford are up
from Columbus and it is more
than significant that they figure
TO be two Of the nine pitchers
retained. Columbus, a; Cardinal
farm, won the little world series
and. If the boys on club like
that aren't right, then all Of the
minor league are wrong. That's
the very reason that Bill De
Lancey and Mike Gonzales, juve-
lille and veteran respectively, will
1e second and third catchers be-
lind Davis Davis, obtained from
the Phillies in the Wilson deal.
De Lancey and Gonzales were
With Columbus.
So were Burgess Whitehead, !,
Benny Borgmann, ranking basket
ball player; and Jock Rothrock.
once with the Red Sox, and all
jhree are highly esteemed IN this
camp.
Should Get Share
All told, the ball club ought to
yet its share Of pitching out OF
hat collection and I can't per
-onally, see how it can do worse
han second behind the Giants.
They have acquired one OF the
,;wo best hitters in the league
0oviS 9AQ. tn catch 90 per cent
II their games. They have
mart, hustling infield in Collins
$40: Frisch, .3O2; Durocher. .253
md Martin, .316. They have
air outfield in Medwick, BOG; Or
-atti, .298, and Watkins, .278, al
hough I understand this is open
o revision without further notice
They'll tell you, for instance
hat Rothrock, who hit BAT fol
Columbus. and Gene, Moore, sor
# Earl, the old pitcher. who hit
2o9 for Houston, are very much
n the fight. They'll tell you the
anne thing about young mar
hose given Or maiden or believe
;-or-not name Is Colonel Buster
fills who comes from Ranger
'ex., and who hit 300 for Roch
,.ster. That's what they tell you
But what they mean Is that Or
-atti and Watkins are holding ou
nd, II there's any way they car
menace this pair, they mean tt
10 1t.
However, this is first-claSS bal
,lub, a@reaT contender that seem