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more records than any group that is
likely to gather in any one sitting
room.
Bobby Jones: ITO me, thinking
especially of golf, although it seems
to be very much the same in other
sports, the essence of form is SIM
plicity, the elimination of all waste
motion and the avoidance of all un-
necessary complications. With few
exceptions, the star performers in any
sport make their jobs look ridiculously
easy. This is because of the high
efficiency of good form. Timing is
the mental and physical coordination
that carries this correct method into
actual play. Form, of course, must
tell over the long stretch, but, even in
the shorter span, the man with the
soundest method usually Is the one
whose game stands up best under the
strain of an important competition"
Babe Ruth: you've handed me a
tough one. But I'll take a stab at
it. Form, I would say, is the short
cut to playing game well the easiest
way. In base ball, for example, 1t
includes the way you stand at plate
the most comfortable position-the
way you grip a bat-the way your
hands and body and feet work to-
gether. Your weight must go with
your swing, not against it. Being a
left-hander, I get a big part OF my
power from the right side-the right
handler from the left side. But every
part of the body should be as relaxed
as possible for any form to work.
Timing Is Just a matter Of mind and
muscle working together. Some days
it does-some days it won't. OF days
nearly always come from bad timing
not from bad form. It might be
from bad nerves, or indigestion or in
ability to concentrate for any one OF
a number Of reasons on q certain
day"
Bill Tilden: Form Is correct
method-not only the knowledge of
how the fundamentals should be han
died, but enough play, practice and
hard work to carry them through.
Timing belongs largely to the mental
side-the ability to concentrate on
good form and so bring about the
smoothness and the rhythm needed
for pace and control. The timing OF
a scatterbrain is sure to be erratic."
Ellsworth Vines: Form is largely
a matter of knowing how to handle
the Observation-Disclosures they mean
and how they work. There usually Is
only one right way. In my opinion,
form and timing seldom work perfect
". I'd be thankful to have them
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Busy Day for Griffith.

ESPITE the rain, yesterday was
- a busy day for Clark Griffith.
The Washington presidents
great base ball intimate, Joe Cambria
was in town, so business involving the
Nationals and the Albany club was
transacted. Cambria is president of
the Albany outfit and arrangements
for the disposition of Gus Dugas, the
outfielder, and Mark Filley, had to
be made with him.
The formal transfer of Dugas' con-
tract from the Albany club to Wash
ington was likely to be made today.
Griffith, as well as Cronin, is con-
vinced that the outfielder sent up by
The International League is qualified
for service as utility player in the
big show. While Dugas' fielding still
lacks polish, the Connecticut boy
look a hitter and might pan out well
as an emergency batter.
Whether Filley will be purchased
from Albany is uncertain. However,
this 22-year-old right-hand pitcher
probably will be kept around the
Washington club another week or two,
anyway. Griffith likes the serious
ness Filley displays in training and
under fire, and thinks he has great
possibilities as a pitcher. So does
Cronin. Both the president and the
manager say Flley has a great
pitchers heart as well as head and
his splendid control particularly i'm
presses them.
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MColl May Be Through as Major Lacquer
Griffith Arm Is Not Responding Treatment

Klumpp now is regularly in line
with the Nationals. but Moe
Berg will catch the opening game
Monday. .Cronin says so. also
says Noes finger that was knocked
out of Joint in Chicago last Sat-
urday is about well and will be
quite o. K. the first Of next week
:. Schultz took part in the bat
ting practice yesterday without
being annoyed by the bruise on his
hand he was to play today.
Cronin is tickled pink hes down
to l74 pounds. in the altogether
:. lust what he weighed at the
end of campaigning two years
agos. believes it his best playing
poundage. .Kerr's boil is better
:. but 1t still flares near Johnny's
left ear like red lantern. the
Nationals are leaving town to-
morrow at midnight for Pittsburgh,
where they are to play Saturday
only one more exhibition here
before the season begins next
Monday. J. B. K.
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Anything to Improve the Breed.

TINE mutuel system is far from
i larceny-proof. then, and so is
the bookmaking system. There
is something about horse or dog
in motion which has the same effect
on certain individuals as a loose
string of diamonds or an open win
dow. Every one wants to improve
the breed, and if the breed has to be
improved with a needle, a sponge or
a fat percentage, so much the better.
But there are a few rugged old
codgers who believe you get a squarer
deal from a good bookie than you do
from the machines. Their memory
goes back to Sheepshead Bay, Brigh-
ton and the glorious old goat tracks
of long ago. 1t was real pleasure
for them to lay their dough with
Riley Grammar and Tom Shaw and
Billy Hayes and John Thomas Te-
cumseh Doyle You can't replace
those boys with a totaizator
In the halcyon days of the book
makers association, the Metropolitan.
the member bookies were distin-
guished and respected gents. They
had their badges, their stools and
little booths, and good strategic po-
sitions to work from. Behind them
were the second-string bookies who
didn't belong to the Met. and were
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is somewhat different. There is a
vague suspicion that the bookie always
is ready to run out with the days
proceeds. Statistics show that he can
run a profitable business and save
railroad fare by not running out, but
the suspicion persists. 1t is held by
the public at large, rather than the
experienced betting public.
It's hard to see why bookmaking is
more sinful than system of mutuels.
One of the most astute of our modern
bettors told me the other day that he
was grieved and shocked by the
goings-on of the mutuel boys down
South this Winter. The houses per-
centage, or grab. on bets ran as high
as 80 sometimes, when it shouldn't
have been more than 10 or Is.
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slider the bookie a citizen of integrity
and solid worth. and other people
who scowl at him as a matter Of
principle.
The bookie himself tends to side
with the former school of thought,
but his testimony must be tossed out
of court on the grounds of partiality
and bias.
Well Just have to wait and see
what happens this Summer when the
followers Of the ancient craft bring
out their stools at Belmont and En-
pire City and Saratoga and start to
do business on the new, legal, 80
basis.
Copyright. 1894. BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
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Exhibition Games
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Cleveland GAY. z; New York N), 3.
Pittsburgh (N), 13; Chicago (A). 0.
st. Louis (N). S; st. Louis (A), 3.
Cincinnati CND, IL; Atlanta (SA), 8.
New York (A), 8; Knoxville (SA), 4.
Detroit (A), 10; Birmingham (SA), 4.
Today's Schedule.
At washington-Brooklyn (N vs..
Washington (A).
At Chattanooga. Tenn.-Cincinnati
(N) VS.. Detroit (A).
At Asheville, N. C.-New York (N)
VS.. Cleveland (A).
At Tulsa, Okla.-PittSburgh (N) VS..
Chicago (A).
At st. Louis-St. Louis (N) VS.. st.
LOUIS (A.
At Newark. N. J.-Boston (A) VS..
Newark IL).
At Charlotte, N. C.-New York (A)
VS.. Charlotte (PL).
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. (A) VS..
Baltimore UL).
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BREWERS PLANNING
BIG DIAMOND CARD
Starts Extensive List of Games
on Foreign Fields Against
Rockville Sunday.

TTAVING completed a successful
basket ball season, Heurich
Brewers now are turning their
attention to the base ball diamond
An extensive schedule with out-of-
town teams, in addition to games in
the Industrial League, has been ar
ranged for the Brewers, who will open
their season Sunday against the Rock
vile A. c. nine at O'Clock on the
Rockville field.
This will be the opener for both
teams. Annapolis, Front Royal,
Lynchburg, st. Mary's Celtics and
Fredericksburg are among other out
of-town mines to be played this season
by the Heurichs. Teams desiring to
play the Brewers are requested to call
West 1858 between 9 and 6 o'clock.
Bob Lyon and Lefty Jewett are the
Brewers mound aces. Other players
are Tony Rosser, Johnny Fenlon,
Ralph Bennie. Bob Shelton, George
Oertel, Dick Knight and Dizz Brad
shaw
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German Woman
Fencing Champ
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 12.-Helene
~ Mayer of Los Angeles, who
won the Olympic women's
fencing title for Germany in 1928
and the national outdoor cham
pionship last Summer, is the new
women's national indoor fencing
champion.
The German girl, student at
Scripps College, Claremont, Calf,
captured the title last night by
defeating Dorothy Locke of New
York. champion for the last two
years, in = fence-off. Miss Mayer
lost only one of II bouts and was
touched only IL times, but in the
final round robin she lost to Ma
rion Lloyd in an upset and had to
defeat Miss Locke a second time to
clinch the crown.
Miss Locke took second place
and Mrs. Joan Detuscan of De-
troit third
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tain, though, that McColl can re-
main at Chattanooga as the Wash
ington clubs property and has
asked Judge Lands opinion in the
affair. If the commissioner says
o. K. Alec will get another shot
at the big show-provided the arm
that was operated on last Decem-
ber regains its snap.
Rain kept the Nationals out of
ball game with the Dodgers yes
terday, but the day was not lost
entirely by the American League
champions They practiced nearly
two hours, the practice including
a long batting drill. Certainly
something the Nationals appear to
need these days. Veteran pitch
ers worked out here and there
wherever shelter from the
showers could be found. But there
was no infield drill All hands
were to report at the pan yard
today at 1880 am. for a practice
period before tackling the Dodg-
~ at 8 pm.
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Wants Winning Spirit.

I A S THE young manager sees it the
n time has come to arouse in the
Nationals the winning spirit
that carried them so far last year.
Looks as though Walter Stewart,
who had been scheduled to left-hand
his way through game yesterday
will get his final slab grooming in
Pittsburgh on Saturday when the Pi-
rates are encountered. Stewart has
not worked since a week ago today
when he went through an impressive
term against the Chickasaws in Men,
phis.
For the fitting with the Orioles in
Baltimore on Sunday, the day be-
fore the American League season gets
under way here, Manager Crcnin
probably will use on the hill Al
Thomas.
However, Cronin wants Jack Rus
sell, last years star relief hurler, who
is due to see much service as a starter
this time, according to present plans,
gets another workout before training
ends and may switch to this pitcher
for the Oriole engagement.
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AIN that washed away
- yesterdays scheduled ex-
y hibition game between
4 y Nationals and Dodgers at
Griffith Stadium made Joe Gro
Minis pitching plans all damp as
well.
With only four more engage
ments-including today's with
the Brooklyn bunch-for the
Nationals before they enter the
championship campaign, their
manager has had to revise his
slab slate that all those destined
to become regular starters may
get their final preseason work.
outs.
For the clash with Casey Stengels
band this afternoon the left-handed
Earl Whitehill was to get the call
with the expectation Of going through
at least six innings. For the finish
of the affair Al Crowder was to go
to the mound.
In the wind-up of the series with
the Dodgers tomorrow the champs
will have on the firing line Monte
Weaver, pitcher expected to be the
right-hand ace Of the curving corps
this year.
Weaver may go the full route, too.
Cronin said today that the employ
ment of more than one pitcher in
any of the last three exhibitions
would be uncertain.
That is, unless the issue appears
will be pitching changes and plenty,
If necessary. Cronin wants it under
stood the Nationals are out to win
from now on. The remaining train
ing tussleS will be taken as seriously
as contests during the championship
campaign.
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Klumpp Is Signed.

TLMER KLUMPP at last is men,
r., ber of the Nationals in good
standing The catcher sent up
by Chattanooga to help tune up the
washington pitchers at training camp
was actually acquired yesterday by
Griffith. The deal was nothing more
than a book transaction, with Elmer
being checked off the list of the Wash
ington farm at Chattanooga and
posted on the home Office card.
Klumpp got real break in CHI
Bottoms holdout. Had Cliff not de-
cided to run his grocery store down
in North Carolina in preference to &C
cepting the salary offered by Griffith,
Elmer would not have had look In.
At that, he does well behind the bat
for a player who has had but years
experience at the position, and he
shows signs of becoming hitter. The
Nationals might have looked else
where for a third-string catcher and
done worse.
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much but it must have wounded his feelings to
be dragged into court and acquitted like an
story man.
Now one of our largest States, equipped with
a Jockey Club Racing Commission and half
a dozen frst-string tracks, is legalizing the
bookie. It's nice gesture in a way. The
gentlemen who take bets will be able to go
home to their wives and children at night, eat
a good meal, put on the old carpet slippers and
park their dogs by the hearth with that cozy
legal feeling that makes life SO pleasant around
the home.
WELL honey" the bookie will say to his
helpmate, II had nice legal afternoon at the
track today. The favorite took licking in
the fifth and we combed those sure thing mon
KEYS for eleven grand"
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fragrant.

IIdgTdHl.
These people think the pari-
mutuels should be given the call over
the bookmaker They realize, of
course, that there always is GER
tain larcenous quality about race
track betting. The amount of lar
ceny runs in inverse proportion to
the number of customers and the
popularity of the sport. Dog tracks,
especially the less successful ones.
must soak the public very Justify in
order to keep their heads above
water. Horse tracks dabble in the
manly art of embezzlement to cor
responding degree. It's excusable. in
a way, because the public expects a
trimming when it enters the park.
The public attitude toward bookies
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HALF DOZEN MIDGET
MINES SEEK BERTHS
Two From Virginia Included in
Those Slated to Compete in
National City Loop.

VTALF a dozen teams are expected
n to battle it out this season for
the midget championship Of the
National City League.
At a meeting held last night at
the Atlas Sport Shop, six teams, in
cluding two from Virginia, were rep
resented. The clubs are Clarendon,
Fort Myer, Edgewood A. c., Cassie
A. c., Flashes and Merrick Boys Club.
Players II years old before June l
are not eligible. Play will start May
13, and franchise fees must be posted
by April 25.
Unlimited team representatives will
meet Monday at o'clock at the Atlas.
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~AANA@
trying to build
up a business of
their own. The
in d u try was
scrupulously gov
erned, on t h e
word Of its most
famous 6 r a d u
ates.
To be S ur e,
there have been
nice bookmakers
and bookmakers
who were not so
nice. There are
r,eople Th0 r0n-
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query to each in
turn:
B a be r u t h,
champion home
run hitter; Bob
by Jones, best of
all golf swingers;
Bill Tilden and
Ellsworth Vines,
the top of tennis;
P. Hal Sims, the
bridge star, who
also plays golf
and tennis well,
and Harry Mehre,
Georgia's a b | e
foot ball coach.
Thoro ShoIl1d
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SWIMMING MEET DRAWS
Is Cities Represented in Middle
Atlantic "Y" Event.

Fifteen cities will be represented in
the Middle Atlantic Y. M. c. A. SWIM
ming championships to be held in
the Shoreham pool Saturday. Pre-
liminaries will be staged at 2:30
O'Clock and the finals at 8. The meet
is sponsored by the Washington Y. M.
c. A. Swimming Club.
Among the cities to be represented.
in addition to Washington, will be
Baltimore, Hagerstown, Richmond,
Roanoke, Wilmington, Del; Norris
town, Wilkes-Barre, York, Harrisburg,
Reading, Lancaster, Scranton, waynes-
boro and Germantown.
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ABANDON SOCCER TILT
Poles and Czechs Cancel Game fol

Poles and Czechs Cancel Game for
Reasons of State.
PRAGUE, April II @.-The Polish
national soccer team. which was to
have battled Czechoslovakia in pre-
liminary game of the world cham
pionship Sunday, will be unable to
come here.
The Polish foreign Office refused
passports to the team because of
recent tension between the two coun-
tries
For the same reason a Warsaw team
will be unable to keep an engagement
at B1unn
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INDIANS POINTING
TO STICK ABILITY
Have Hit Hard in Annexing
Seven of Ten Games on
transforming Trip.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
- HARLOTTE, N. c., April
I 12.-Confidence in their
\ batting ability is the
principal result of the
Cleveland Indians seven vic
tories out of 10 in the 14-game
transforming series with the
World Champion New York
Giants.
The Indians are telling themselves
that if they can belt the offerings of
Hubbell, Schumacher, Parmelee and
Fitzsimmons they have little to fear
from American League hurlers in the
coming season.
TULSA, Okla, April u (R.-Mule
Haas, sick outfielder, who has been
doctoring up for month, was back
with the White Sox today, eager to
get back into the lineup.
With Haas arrival, Pitcher Ed Dur
ham was sent to Chicago to search
for a cure of the many ailments that
have been making life miserable for
him all Spring.
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TLANTA, April 12-No one
n angle of sport has brought up
n more discussion than this one
1 \ query: What is form-and
what is timing-and how do
you bring them about?
In the last few days the following
have dropped by my room in Atlanta,
where 1 had a chance to put this
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FROM THE PRESS BOX
BY JOHN LARDNER-

IEw YORK, April 12-Th bookmker has come in for
discussion York State restoring his STOOL
and all his ancient privileges and making an honest man OF n
modification claim honest
of bookie without violating all the 81 laws of nature
and the country the bokmaker has
didn't pohtS
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THE SPORTLICHT
THREE FRIENDS IN CONFERENCE
by GRANTLAND RICE

THREE FRIENDS IN CONFERENCE.
One by one they dropped around
To talk OF this and that
OF hotD to sDing-dnd hoD to lob
And hoD to hold bat;
OF hotD the body ought to turn
OF HON ground strokes Dere played
OF hou the hands and shoulders Worked
When tour-bdse hits tDere made
And III admit before they left
gathered in q thrill.
For those ,0ho talked OF this and that
Were Bob and Babe and Bill.
felt the room ioas full of ghosts.
The ghosts of roaring cheers,
The phantoms of an endless throng
That marched on through the years;
For there mere deeds these three had done
Beyond the tribe of men,
And there lDds lightning do,Dn the sky
We may not see again;
You'll hare to guess Just who they Uere
Around sports highest hill,
But those ,Dho paid friendly call.
Who talked of hoD to hit a ball,
Were Bob and Babe and Bill
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A<NCA4S AAeAo AAS
right to an hon.
est living. They
tell you that he
is a scoundrel
who fattens of
the earnings of
his fellow men.
Look W h a t
happened W h e n
the bookies took
over the world
series of 1919"
they say, and
you have to ad-
NIT that what
happened in 1919
was a trihe un-
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Hu Dodger Series Finale Buccaneer Baqge Au Cen
Heffner Mascot
For the Yanks
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, April IL
n Don Heffner. the New York
Yankees brilliant second base
recruit. appears to have become
the clubs mascot as well.
With Heffner on the job the
Yanks won seven straight games.
When he dropped out for rest
they lost three straight, then won
the last two since he returned.
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STONE TO BROADCAST.

The Nationals new rightfelder
Jack Stone, will be the guest speaker
tonight on VOLS weekly sports
broadcast between 7:45 and 8 o'clock.
stone will be interviewed by Joe Hol-
man.
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CARDINALS ONE AHEAD
Dean, Newsom on Slab in Second
Game Of st. Louis Series.

ST. LOUIS, April 12.-Dizzy Dean
and Buck Newsom will oppose here
today as the two st. Louis major
league clubs, the Cardinals and the
Browns, meet for the second game
in "city championship" series. The
Cards won the first tilt yesterday,
S to 8.
With the announcement Of the bat
teries Frank Frisch, Cardinal man
ager, indicated he was grooming Dean
to open the National League season
for the Cards next Tuesday. Man
ager Rogers Hornsby said either Irv-
ing Hadiey or George Blaehoider
would open the sTson for the Browns
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DdoC boiis may ASSSA SSs
up to the big show again.
The tall right-hander sent to
Chattanooga not long ago to have
his doctored salary arm treated
has informed Clark Griffith the
flipper is not coming around to
form at all and that he-McColl-
will not be here with the Ma
tionals for the opening of the sea-
son next Monday.
Griffith, though, will do all ne
can to nelp McColI through. The
Washington president wants this
venerable pitcher, who knows the
slab art thoroughly after SO many
seasons of experience and hopes
to be able to let him remain at
Chattanooga for further treatment
even If well into the championship
campaign before letting him 60.
~" Washington boss is not fr-
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M'CARTHY'S BERTH SAFE
Dodgers Rookie First Baseman
Helped When McManus Goes.

With the departure Of Marty Nc
Manus to the Boston Braves, young
John Mccarthy, rookie first base
man, seems sure of a job with the
Brooklyn Dodgers, who will play the
Nationals this afternoon in an exhi-
bition game at Griffith Stadium.
The Dodgers still have seven in
fielders, but Manager Casey Stengel
has declared he'll keep Mccarthy on
the roster until May IS, when the
player-limit reduction deadline is
reached. And maybe remarked
Stengel, "I'n keep him after that"
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GRIFF, BLUEGE TO SPEAK
Will Be Guests at st. Stephens
Father-and-Son Dinner.

Clark C.. Griffith and Ossie Bluege
will be guest Speakers at father and
sons banquet to be held this evening
at 8, in ST. Stephens Episcopal Church,
Sixteenth and Newton streets.
The program will include also sew
eral boxing and wrestling bouts. The
Harmonica Band of the Washington
Boys Club will supply the musical part
of the program.
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Opposition Rears Its Head.

Opposition Rears Its Head.
WET there are people who would
I deprive the bookmaker of his
little morsel of happiness. On
Broadway, and on similar alleys all
over the country, you will find gentle
men and ladies arguing that the
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be enough talent here to know some
thing about the combination that
helped to make all famous-to break
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.

Los Angeles, II; Hollywood, z.
Oakland, 6; Seattle, 5.
Sacramento, 10; Portland, 0.
Missions, 10; San Francisco, S.
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Higgins of AS Hurt.

nALTIMORE.-The Philadelphia
Il Athletics play the Baltimore
Orioles today minus the services
of Pinky Higgins.
The American Leaguers' third base
man is out with badly swollen hand,
the result of falling on it in a dive
for a ball.
His place probably will be filled by
Rabbit Warstler or Johnny Wingfleld.
CHATTANOOGA Tenn.-The De-
troit Tigers and Cincinnati's Reds met
today in the first of a four-game
series they will take part in while
en- route north for the opening of the
major league season.
Yesterday the Tigers piled up
score of 18 to against the Birming-
ham Barons Of the Southern Asso-
citation.
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Piet of Reds Recovering.

PIet OF heuS recovering.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-Tony Piet,
| infielder for the Cincinnati Reds,
is recovering today from an at
tack of influenza.
Piet was unable to play in yester-
days game. when the Reds trimmed
the Atlanta Crackers, II to 8. Trainer
Rohde said. however. he hopes to
have him in condition for tomorrow's
contest with the Detroit Tigers.