The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-15
WILSON FIGURES
 WINTER DEALSBIC
 HELP TO CHARGES
Johnny MOOre's Bat De- pended On-Pitching
 Should Be Tops
EDITORS NOTE: This Is an- other of a series of articles on tho big league training camps. 1T deals with the Phillies.
By HARRY GRAYSON Sports Editor, NEA Service


 Winter Haven, Fla.-Jimmy Will son professes 10 believe that he IS like n fellow hiding in a dark alley with a big club, waiting for the town bully to come along.
 Heretofore" We won't finish last" was considered an optimlstc statement on the part of a mana ger Of the Philadelphia Nationals but Wilson isn't that type.
 q know other managers don Nhlnk much of our club, but IT" ssoing to show them a dark horse with plenty of foot says the raven haired Wilson.
 s"Deais have improved an outht fhat was tough to heat in the clos lng weeks of 1934. I've ID gooo pitchers. There are harder-hitting lnfeiders than Johnny Vergez ana Blondy Ryan, who came from tne Giants in the Dick Barten trans action. but I like their spirit
 The chest of Patsy o'Rourke. q little red-faced Irish scout, who spent his baseball life as q minor league infielder and manager ewells with pride as Wilson speaks of his pitchers.
 Wilson asserts that the purchase of Jim Bivin, Harry Gumbert. ana Oryille Jorgens, all right handlers, from Galveston last July is going to make selection of a starting quartet quite a problem.
 Galveston was in fourth place in the first half of the Texas league season when Scout O'Rourke rec commended that they be bought. "Biyin, Gumbert, and Jorgens will pitch Galveston to the cham pionshjp in the second half. and win the pennant in the playof. O'Rourke told Gerry Nugent, presl- dent of the Philadelphia club, and Wilson.
 This they did, and Galveston gave New Orleans of the Southern association quite battle before lowing in the Dixie series.
 Eivin, Gumbert. and Jorgens stand 6 feet or more. Bivin is "A years of age, Gumbert 21, and Jo. gems 25.
 Hivin won 20 games for Calves ton, Gumbert 19, and Jorgens, who is q brother of Arndt Jorgens, the Yankees catcher, 14.
 Mighty Mound Stan.
 Tn addition to this trio, the Phil Hes have Curt Davis who bagged Ig games in his major league bow a1a aDOrnUnt ion last season; Shufflin' Phil Collins, l. whocopped 13; Snipe Hansen. Msoithpaw coming into his own; the Veteran Sylvester Johnson; Joe Bowman, who showed flashes of fine form with the Giants in 1884; Isuel Moore, the Oklahoma Indian who has demonstrated that he can win, and Johnny PeZZullo. a left handler who grabbed 16 games for Richmond and two for Nashville laft season.
 wilson, one of the games great eatchers for a dozen years, com , pares Davis with Grover Cleveland Alexander. Last season Davis made baseball men wonder why he ling cred in the Pacific Coast league so iicng.
 The Phils' catching is second to none in either league, with Al Todd the giant of Troy. N. r.. dividing the assignment with Wilson. Todd. much sought by Pittsburgh and other clubs during the winter, hit .318 in 1884.
 Wilson has proved quite q David sHarum since taking command of the Phillies in 1883. Only three of the 32 athletes assembled at this beautiful resort were Phillies when Wilson assumed the management of the club. Only 10 were in camp "a year ago.
 Perennial baseball doormats need pilots like Wilson Jimmy the Ace was a poor boy who made good the hard way. Raised in East Falls, Sthe toughest section of Philadel- phia, he either had to remain in the house or fight. Jimmy went out. He had to quit school and go j to work at an early age. tn Wilson acquired winning ways with the St Louis Cardinals. and isn't content to just go along as z manager of the Phillies. ss "IW make this club make me q < good managed" he declares. iM Satisfied With Swaps. 1 wilson obtained all the better oi the swap that brought First Base. man Dolph Camilli and sent Dor Hurst to the Cubs. Hurst Is now in the minors.
 Jimmy also is well satisfied witt the barter that cost him ShortstoT Dick Barteil and brought Vergez Ryan, George Watkins. and Peg ., zullo, and cash from the Giants
 Wilson indicates that Bartell isn'1 all he is cracked up to be. .s Those little fellows appear fas' ter than they really are," Jimmy says of the California. "Bartel made my young second basemen Lou Chiozza, look bad by rifine inc ball at him on double plays with his .310 batting average. Bar tell drove in only 37 runs in 14t games, or four less than Ryar bated in in 110 games. Naturally Barteli. leading off, wasn't in ths {. best position to bat in runs, but 2 neither was Ryan, who hit way {. down the list.
 "If I didn't believe that Watkins