The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-02

the Boston
AlFk "lllor Braves.
Six weeks ago, or maybe
more, George Preston denied
flatly he was in the market
for the Braves, but, he added
naively, he'd take them and
operate them if somebody
handed 'em over to him to
run.
Which, cutting out all fencing
with the facts, means that
George is not sap enough to put
money into a venture that
weather. men then he with far
more financial recourses, have
been unable to make click.
Knows His Baseball
But what I wanted to say
here is that George Marshall is
baSeball-minded enough not only
to head a syndicate that might
take over the Braves, but he is
O smart enough baseball man to
actually direct their functions
afield. He knows player weak
nesSes, failings, strong points
and idieSyncrasies.
I've spent a few hectic hours
within earShot Of George Mar
shall around baseball, football
and basketball arenas, and there
is a chap that never goes into
anything by halves, excepting
of course his grapefruit and
canteloupes.
I've heard him bawl out adj
vice to Clark Griffith that, had
Griff needed, he would have
profited by. George Marshall
is a student of baseball, right
down to the core Of the darn
thing. He's equally as astute
q master of the game OF foot
ball. Ditto basketball.
! Old Inside Stuff
Marshall knows smart, inside
baseball. He can tear the
dern game apart and put it
together again so it works. He
thinks far ahead of the aver
age player and the average
play and twists and turns and
squirms in his seat and often
rants and raves because some
player seems to be suffering
from supraclavicular stenosis, as
we say next door at George
Washington Hospital when we
discuss unorthodox baseball.
Sports, as many of you know,
Is Georges avocation. That's
one reason he would not have
survived had he been Robinson
CruSoe instead of G. P. M. He
could never have formed base
! ball mines, football elevents or
basketball quintS of his man,
Friday.
! I can see Gorgeous George
now, sitting on the bench of the
Braves telling Old Rabbit
Maranville and some Of those
other Braves, and you have to
be one to play for the Boston
National Leaguers, how to de-
port themselves afteld.
! Hard ask-Master
Toon eoo Io;,,o y, a s,oou,-|yIoife
monkey suit that rolled into
the stockings somewhere below
the knees, waving a scorecard to
move the outfield in or out or
over, and otherwise master
! minding nine gentlemen with
gloves in their hands and lar
Ceny in their hearts.
I I'd hate to be a ball player
and come under his wrath were
I to perform some dumb prank
on the diamond. I'd know I
was going to take a good steam
pressing and cleaning the Sec
ond I got back to the bench,
probably starting ten feet before
] arrived.
There's a guy that can't stand
slow-thinking. Because he thinks
so fast himself and mostly
needs but one guess, George
Marshall easily becomes irri.
tated when baseball isn't played
: after the manner he learned it
| down on the Monument Lot be-
hind old Polls Theater in be-
! tween rehearsals of the mob
scene from McFadden's Flats
wherein he and Monta Bell once
carried spears.
Oh, that guy MarsnaH could
run the Braves all right.
Even though he might posi-"
bly run them right into the
Nround-like Judge Emil Fuchs!