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Evening star., 1934-03-18

respect during the coming cam
paign. and this includes. in addi-
ton to attack and defense, the
all-important essential Of spirit.
In shunting Goose Goslin to
Detroit the local management
made an important move in the
interest of team harmony, just as
it did when such capable but dis
sension-breeding performers as
Fred Marberry, Sam West and Roy
Spencer were sent hence. And in
Jack Stone the Griffs acquired not
only an equally tempered athlete
but a better fielder, faster runner
and, believe it or not, a more pro-
ductive puncher.
But the most vital of all con-
siderations is the prospect for in
creased pitching effectiveness.
With Tommy Thomas. who COM
mitted matrimony last Summer in
the wake of an operation on his
throwing arm, again in f1ne fettle,
Jack Russell will be available to
start as well as finish games.
Regardless of Thomas, however,
with Monte Weaver on the job
throughout the campaign there
will be no overworking of White
hill, Stewart or Crowder, particu-
larly the latter, to whose staleness
the world series upset by the
Giants largely can be attributed.
Then, everything else being
equal, and with Cronin again guar
anteeing hustle-well, what do you
think?
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IS SWIFT
SUBDU|NC CHAMP
Indoor Tennis Final One of
Shortest in 35 Years.
Wins Doubles, Too.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n JEW YORK, March IT,
N The two-year reign of
Y Gregory S. Mangin as
a United States indoor ten
mis- champion was broken today
in the Seventh Regiment Armory
by Lester R. Stoefen of Los
Angeles, who smothered the de-
Tending champion, 6-1, 8-6,
Ga, before 1000 spectators.
A little more than an hour was all
the time required by the towering
Californian to subdue his Newark
N. j., rival in straight sets in one of
the fastest played finals in 35 years
Timing his shots beautifully and
hitting into the ball with numbering
force, Stoefen built his attack and de-
fense to thwart Mangin's notoriously
dangerous net game Only OCCASION
ally did Mangin succeed in executing
any of his angled, ungettable volleys
that dropped just over the cord.
AS effective as any of his weapons
was Stoefens gunf1re service. Man.
gin virtually was defenseless against
it and succeeded in taking only three
games on Stoefen's delivery.
Stoefen, ranked third in the coun-
try and a candidate for the 1884
Davis Cup team, won 8 of his 20
games on Mangin'S service, taking two
of them at love.
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Bluege's Glasses Rose Tinted as Ossie Views job
Declares Unperurhed

able, in the late Spring and Sum-
mer. When the shadows draw
across the pitchers box, though, ]
will have 'em on again.
''I will wear 'em in the second
game of double-headers, too. You
know. 1t gets right shadowy around
the hill in the late afternoon.
"Of course, I will wear ,em in
the field as well as at bat, and I
am not afraid of being hit on them,
certainly not in the field, anyway.
They are made of non-shatterable
glass. Got 'em and found they
aided my vision remarkably. They
ought to do so, right along.
You saw wasn't bothered a bit
by them in practice this morning,
my first of the year.
why, I could follow the pitches
perfectly, and I hit some much bet
ter than I did at any time the lat
ter part of the last season. And
down at third base I managed to
spot everything coming at me at
the crack of the bat.
"They can't count me out OF the
running" Bluege contends. Now
that I have these specs, ! am sure
I will be up there doing more hit
ting than before.
"And I have never had any
trouble down at third.
II am not ready to be showed out
Of base ball just yet" J.B. K.
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game. This is not intended as an
alibi for my weak batting in the
series. I mean that my eyes had
been so impaired by the strain
brought on by the shadowy August
and September play they were not
equal to the task of following the
ball quickly even with more light.
I consulted an eye specialist, 60
ing into the matter thoroughly with
him. I learned that I had a pre-
nounced astigmatism, but was as
sured it could be corrected by wear
ing glasses. That did not sound so
GOOD to me at the time. OF course
I realized a number Of ball players,
particularly pitchers, had worn and
still wore glasses in the game. But
I was always a bit skeptical about
their worth to ball player IN
action.
"The eye specialist convinced me,
however, that barring the injury
risk there was nothing to consider.
Once accustomed to wearing them,
would not be hampered in any way,
was assured. So I'm giving 'em
thorough test here and I am conf
dent will get away with 1t.
while I am planning to wear
these new specs throughout the
training period, probably will
shed them when light conditions In
the ball parks become more favor
Evening star., 1934-03-18
More Fan Interest, Lefthanders' Decline
And Hvelier Ball Than Expected, Chief
Developments i'm New Diamond Campaign

sieges him upon every public appear
ance and the 4l-year -old slugger is re-
spending with all the flourish OF
grand opera star on farewell tour.
The popularity Of the world cham
pion Giants. at the same time, tends
to demonstrate that slugging isn't the
whole show and that the base ball
public appreciates the fine, more in
tricate points of the game. Bill
Terrys dynamic crew has played to
overflow crowds in most of its Florida
engagements so far. notably on its
home grounds at Miami Beach, as
we'll as Fort Myers, Bradenton and
Tampa.
Ali this enthusiasm. plus the fact
the Yankees and Boston Braves
played to capacity at the outset Of
their exhibition series, has helped re-
vive the spirits of financially harassed
club owners. st. Petersburg has not
seen such turnouts in nine years.
II may not be so important, but the
left-handed pitching situation is one
Of the most unusual in Spring training
history, with the Boston Red Sox in
POSSESSION Ol dS IIluCIl StdoOIICO ooot1i-
paw talent as the other 10 clubs in
Florida combined. The Giants have
Hubbell, the Cardinals rely on a
comeback by Callahan, the Braves de-
pend on Ed Brandt, the Yankees on
Gomez and the Tigers on Fischer. but
these scattered lefties contrast with
the portside Red SoX galaxy Of the
great Grove, Walber, Pennock, Wei
land and Fred Ostermueller, the
highly touted Rochester, N. Y. re-
cruit.
Among the other clubs, the Ath-
letics haven't a rookie southpaw the
Reds and Dodgers have only recruit
or two and the Brown staff includes
only a relief left-hander, Ed Wells.
Hansen and Elliott may aid the
Phillies. Tom Zachary the Braves and
Elon Hogsett the Tigers, but 10 out
of II pitching staffs hereaboutS are
being built around right-handers.
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Foot Ball Fred's Game.

CNGTON has had two years of the
y professional game, going into 1t
right after his graduation at the
University of Alabama in 1882. He
vas with the Beckley, w. Va, club
the greater part of that season and
burned up the Midatlantic League
with his batting. He played with At
lanta last season, but broken hand
kept him idle much of the time. Al
though shipped to Albany he never
saw any service with the club
Foot ball naturally is the favorite
sport with this young giant, who in
two of his years at Alabama made
the all-America eleven as a tackle,
but he has been in only one gridiron
contest since graduation. That was
the one in which a group of Alabama
players battled Georgetown, George
Washington and Catholic University
in Washington in the Fall of 80.
Walter Stewart has trained fast at
this camp and the southpaw pitcher
is about ready to put his all into his
work on the slab. He opened up for
the first time today and shot the ball
by the batters In great style. Walter
SContinued on Second Page.o
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the expense of the greatly weak
ened Athletics, who aloIe OF the
field contrived to hold Washing
ton to an even break in the Gus
tomary total of % tits.
Summed up, the evidence ad-
vanced all tends to indicate the
seven-game margin by which Cron-
ms crew copped is due to be whit
tied to the thinnest of edges, If
not actually obliterated, although
there is no unanimity anent the
identity of the team that will scale
the heights should this come to
pass.
Mebbe So mebbe so, but while
the outlook is for a closer bunch
ing generally-less distance be-
tween the top and bottom and less
between most of individual en-
trants-we won't be surprised II
Washington widens the space be-
tween it and the runner-up Tigers
or Yankees-take your choice-in
the process of attaining its second
straight banner.
NNE thing most observers fail
J to take into account is that
the conc d d gen r a
strengthening of the various also
rams of '33 should result in them
Evening star., 1934-03-18
In recent years Bluege says he
has been troubled late in the CAM

In recent years Bluege says he
has been troubled late in the cam
paign by stand shades falling
across the pitching hill. Through
the last two months of a season
it was only with great difficulty
that he could follow the course
of a pitched ball. Often, he says,
the ball was virtually right in
front of him before he had his
eyes on it.
Naturally, under such condi-
tions my batting was affected"
OSsie states.
Il was swinging late and at
poor target, too. I simply could
not see the ball properly and any
hitting I did was more matter of
luck than anything else. was in
regular batting stride much of the
early part of each season, but when
those shadows began to creep
across the pitchers box my average
began to sink, and rapidly, too.
Last season. these shadows
troubled me more than ever. Try
as I would could not follow that
ball coming up to the plate. Either
it was blurred all the way or was
right on me before knew it. This
defective vision annoyed me par
ticularly In the world series, even
though the shadows did not get to
the pitchers box until late IN the
Evening star., 1934-03-18
BY ALAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports EditC

- T. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
17.-Summed up more or less in
a nutshell, the chief develop
~ ments of the 1884 major league
Spring training to date include
the evidence of increased public inter
est, the somewhat marked decline OF
the left-handed pitching species and a
growing conviction among the players
that the new standard base ball is q
bit livelier than advertised
The first and last of these items go
hand hand, for it is already appar-
ent there is going to be more slugging
with the spryer ball this year and the
major league magnates feel more spec
tacular batting will mean bigger
crowds It is disclosing no secret to say
that the club owners had the popular
lure in mind when they decided to
bring it up to the standard of the
American. In doing so. number of
the big hitters have already expressed
Evening star., 1934-03-18
SUBDUES VENZKE,
HIS RECORD
Sears Travels Two Miles in
9:07.4, Best by Yankee.
Owens Ties Mark.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ADISON SQUARE GAR
M F3:1a5sss REs; ssS 59.ssslPssss, SSssl asssa
4 u the University of Kan
sas' premier miller, tonight drove
the indoor mile record down to
4:084 as he gave the finest
exhibition of his career in win
ming the Columbus mile at the
knights of Columbus games
from an all-star field.
Setting a terrific pace from the
fifth lap on, Cunningham broke the
tape 30 yards in front Of Gene
Venzke. Pennsylvania sophomore. who
held the old universal indoor standard
OF 4:l0, set on the same track two
years ago.
Little John W. (Bill) Follows, going
out of his class so he could get some
competition, finished third, some five
to ten yards behind VenZke.
Cunningham appeared as fresh as
a Kansas daisy as he finished his
marvellous race to hang up the second
fastest mile in athletic history, In
doors or out.
Only Jack Lovelock's outdoor mile
record of 4:076 stands ahead Of Cum
ningham's time.
Stars Left in Ruck.
T ABORING along behind the Kan
L. san, almost distanced were such
great runners as Glen Dawson,
Osskiatook, Okla; Charles (Chuck)
Hornbostel, Of Indiana; Frank Crow
ley, Of Manhattan and Frank Nordell,
OF N. Y. o.
Nordell, making his first start in
one OF the big club meets this year,
jumped out to set the early pace with
VenZke, Crowley, Cunningham, and
Follows running in stride right behind
him.
Cunningham stayed behind the
Violet runner only so long as the
pace suited him, stepping out to take
the lead half way through the fifth
Of the IL laps as Nordell began to
run down.
Follows, Hornbostel, and Venzke
were right after him in that order,
but Cunningham began to draw out
gradually, increasing his pace and
his lead.
AS the bell rang for the final lap
the great Kansan started for town,
and how he went. Running like the
champion he is, he Just hit the hign
spots on that final circuit to leave
Venzke, Follows and the rest strug-
Cling along to finish as best they
could.
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SCOOPS HOPPERS
IN |NF|ELD STYLE
FIyhaWk in Garden, Whangs
Ball at Bat, Is Happy to
Be a Griffman.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

IN ILOXI, Miss, March IT,
x Jack Stone, slated to
be the Nationals new
right fielder. has Joe Gro
min pop-eyed. The former Tiger
is making such a great showing
in practice, the manager can't
say enough in praise.
He has got it." exclaimed Cronin
after watching Stone grab up all kinds
of grounders in the mornings drill
weak on ground balls. Why. Stone
can scoop EN- up as nicely as lot
of regular inflelders have seen. He
will get EN- in the outfleld for mine.
And he is a fly hawk, too. Jack
really can get under 'em. And hit
say, that fellow will help us plenty
up there at the plate. He swings
smoothly and there's plenty of pow
er, plenty, in his swing. He'll do
something for US
Cronin is no more pleased with
Stone than the newcomer is with
the manager and his job with the
Nationals. Its wonderful to be
with club like this and working for
q manager who takes such an in
terest in you as Cronin does. I ad-
mired the way he handled everything
last year and it's fine to be on the
same club with him." Stone said, after
the workout.
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By staff Correspondent of The Star.
~ ILOXI, Miss, March 17.-As


~ ILOXI, Miss, March 17.-As
- he prepares for his thir-
teenth successive campaign
IL with the Nationals, Os-
valid Louis Bluege seems
calmly but fully confident he will
continue on the third base job he
has handled so wonderfully we'll.
Despite the thought of club Off
cials that rapid decline at bat
had made him an uncertainty at
the far corner this year. Ossie be-
lieves a pair of spectacles he has
brought to camp will balk the ef-
forts Of Cecil Travis or any other
aspiring young infelder to oust
him from his position.
Never having faltered afield as
his stick work f1ivered, the 34-year-
old veteran is sure the new
cheaters will correct vision that
was low for the last three or four
years and again make him one of
his clubs most valuable players.
1.-THE trouble with my eyes is
nothing new," Bluege admits.
"For years I have been wearing
reading glasses, but I have never
had to use them for other pur-
poses, nor do I intend to do SO
now outside of base ball. And !
will wear them only part Of the
season at that"
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Bell Hot for While.

DAIRED with George M, Lott, jr.,
Chicago Davis Cup doubles vet
eran, Stoefep won his second
national title, overhauling Berkeley
Bell and Frank J. Bowden, New
Yorkers, As, 6-3. 6-4, 6-4, in the
doubles final.
Bell played like a streak in the first
set and was largely responsible for
his teams breaking off Lofts serv-
ice in the first game for the only
break of that chapter. Bell slowed up
considerably in the remaining sets.
Stoefen and Lott played their char
acteristic overhead smashing game
and clicked beautifully from the Sec
ond set through the finish. Stoefen
appeared just as fresh as when he
took the court with Mangin and lost
only one game on service.
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coming from CroSsville and Phil
lips from Hartman. They all
like hunting, fishing and mountain
music
Dave Harris brought along a
wheelbarroW load of bats from his
Greensboro, ". c., home. Last
years utility outfielder says he will
have a regular berth this time If
hittin' will git it."
Bottle Cox, Washington umpire
brought down here to handle the
exhibition games, is wearing away
that spare tire he wore around his
middle. He now can bend and
touch his toes. Bottle got this
way by cutting down to four meals
Evening star., 1934-03-18
sington, Dugas Duel Keen.

sing tOiif DuSdS NNUChs
"ITE TAKES a personal interest in
every man in his charge, !
found out in my first practice
here. I'm certain it will help me
in my game to have him looking
after me. They don't have 'em any
better than Cronin in base ball"
Both Gus Dugas and Fred Sing
ton. the Albany boys, again banged
the ball savagely in batting drills.
If they continue their great displays
of power, the fight between them for
the fifth outflelding berth with the
club will be a thriller. Dugas is the
more experienced player, but is a
left-hand batter, while Sington
swings from the other side and Cronin
would like to add another hard
hitting right-hander to his outfit.
Dugas, who will be 25 years old
next Saturday, has been in organized
base ball five years. He started with
Wichita in the Western League and
had trials with the Pirates and the
Phillies. Between these big league
tests he starred with Kansas City.
The Phillies let him go last year, so
he spent the final 10 weeks of the
season with Albany. While with the
Pirates, Dugas had his jaw broken
when he collided with another fielder
while trying for a catch. but says
the fracture healed well and caused
no further annoyance.
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q day and exercising at the ball
park a half hour each morning.
1t took Trainer Martins most per-
suasive discourses on conditioning
to make Battle round-yeS, round
into form.
Martin is hot after two regulars
of the squad. He still has Earl
Whitehill chasing about in a rub
ber shirt. The pounds are rolling
of the pitcher, though. And Mike
declares he'll have the extra chins
off Buddy Myer in another week.
Only five of the big lot of local
talent that attached itself to the
Washington camp at the outset Of
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turns on the hill. Jack has that
sinker of his down pat now and
he's perfecting a change of pace
that will make trouble for a lot
of batters this year
Jack had his hair carefully
slicked down the other day when the
movie men shot" the Nationals
and took plenty of joshing. Just
had an olive oil shampoo this
morning" said Russell by way of
explaining the slick coiffure.
Alex McColl, oldest rookie in
camp. is doing much to round his
recently -doctored arm into trim.
but finds time to pass out advice
to the younger hurlers trying out
Evening star., 1934-03-18
YANK HORSES ONE, TWO

SANDowN Park, England, March
II P).-Mrs. Marshall Fields Quarter
Sessions today won the Victory Stee-
plechase Handicap over 2 miles fur
longs in an All-American finish.
Quarter Sessions won by lengths
from M. D. Blair's grand national
candidate, Prince Cherry. Two others
ran
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Sam Rice as Indian, Heap Big
Already Helpful as Coach, Veteran Figures Also
as PLAYER in Johnson's Plans.

johnson disclosed today that he
had strategic job for Sam. This
will be to bolster the Cleveland
outfield from any direction.
AS matters stand, Joe Vosnik,
Earl Averill and Dick Porter, to-
gether with the untried Bob Hol-
land, are expected to carry the
hod out in the tall grass.
But Rice's previously demon
strated pinch hitting-he played
in only IS games last year for
.294-is considered q powerful o.
fensive asset II any Of the four
younger men should taitsx.
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at Biloxi Park. The 38-year-old
right-hander. who was in the mi
nors 20 years before getting his
first crack at the big show, is con-
sidered a smart pitcher by the
clubs brain trust" that greatly
appreciates the way he tips the
youngsters.
Jack Stone. the new outfielder
lifted from the Tigers last Winter.
found himself right among home
folk when he Joined the Nationals
this week Jacks from Mulberry,
Tenn, so Walter Stewart and Len
Phillips, the pitchers. formed a
special Greeting Committee They
are both Tennesseeans, Stewart
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training still are around. The
other boys have gone back to their
shrimping and oystering. Those
remaining are given plenty to do
In the batting drills. Sierra, Will
liams, Conn and Demarand are
chucking to the hitters and Kelly
is helping out behind the bat. All
but Sierra, who comes from nearby
Gulfport, are Biloxi boys.
Great training weather In
Biloxi now, for Summer is here.
President Clark Griffith Of the Ma
tionals ushered in the new season
today by breaking out in a SPAR
king panama hat. J. B. K.
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hotel for the noontime meal-and
he's asking, What about code?"
As AL sees it, they gotta code
for bankers, they gotta code for
ditch-diggers, they gotta code for
everything but us base ball coaches.
1t amt right, this 48-hour week we
got on our hands. Cut us to a
30-hour week and We could have
another coach on this here ball
club.
We coaches don't rate at all
with this here N. r. A."
Biloxi is seething with base ball,
now that the entire Washington
club squad is assembled. The
Evening star., 1934-03-18
BY the Associated Press.

n vEw ORLEANS, March IT,
N Sam Rice, who spent near
" 20 Summers as Wash
/ ington Senator, looms
large in the Indians plans
for the year, both as a player and
trainer.
Sam already has proved a
steadying influence for the young
sters, and his keen eye has de-
tected many minor flaws In their
play.
But abovs that, Asnazef waiter
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Tigers Are Eager
Claw Red Sox
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
7 AKELAND, Fla. March IL
- The smoke around the Detroit
Tigers training camp here to-
day indicated the feverish prep
arations being made for Sundays
feud game with Bucky Harris
Boston Red Sox at Sarasota.
Harris published remarks about
the inability of the Tigers to make
the pennant grade has gotten De-
troit stirred up for a hotly con-
tested game.
Auker. Frasier and Hogsett will
be on deck for mound duty.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
SETS SWIMMING MARK
Chrostowski Is Clocked at 53.4 in
1OO-Yard Free Style.

PAWTUCKET, r. l., March II P).
Matthew Chrostowsk of Central
High School of Providence set a new
worlds interscholastic swimming rec
ord here today in the fifteenth re-
newal of the Lieut.. George r. Nee
han New England interscholastic
championships when he was clocked
in 53.4 seconds for the 100-yard free
style.
This betters by full half second
the thus far unaccepted standard set
by Jim Reilly, jr., Of Rutgers Prep.
and equaled last week at Philadelphia
by Chrostowski. It also breaks the
official record of Baxter Bryan Of Co.
lumbus, Ohio, set at 54.2 seconds.
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Simply Great Pitchers.

4 LII this talk about the shortage
n Of southpaws is nothing to both
er about, so long as we can get
winning results with the right hand
ers," remarks Bob Quinn, general
manager of the Brooklyn Club.
"McGraw didn't worry about left
handlers when he had Mathewson and
McGinnity. The Cubs won pennants
in recent years without southpaw
help. Johnson, Alexander, Walsh and
Joss didn't throw left handed. 1t
isn't because Hubbell and Grove are
southpaws, but because they are
great pitchers that they stand out"
Evening star., 1934-03-18

the opinion privately that the 1884 ball
is noticeably livelier than either article
used last season.
This will test a favorite theory of
the magnates that the fans at large
are more interested in home run duel
between Jimmie Foxx and Lou Gehrig
or batting race between Chuck Klein
and Bill Terry than they are in a
pitchers battle between Carl Hubbell
and Dizzy Dean or Lefty Grove and
Vernon Gomez. 1t all goes back to the
popular furor created by the exploits
of Babe Ruth, the greatest gate attrac-
ton OF all time, and still the highest
paid performer in base ball.