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Evening star., 1937-02-16
MERE are numerous cases in
which a youngster fresh from
the bushes made a big league

INHERE are numerous cases in
which a youngster fresh from
the bushes made a big league
- club to the extent that he
took it out of the mere contender
class and put 1t across to pen
nant. Dave Bancroft did it for the
Phillies. Tony Lazzeri and Joe Di
Maggio-l0 years apart-did it for
the Yankees. And many others.
There have been few cases, however,
in which a first-year man meant so
much to q team that, when he broke
down, the team foundered with him
Such a player is Stuart Martin of
the Cardinals.
Few persons on the outside real
lied how much Stu Martin meant to
the Cardinals last year. They knew
that he was an unusually skillful
second baseman-so good that, after
Frank Frisch had a good look at
him. Frank tossed his glove into the
dugout-and walked in after it.
Martin covered second base
like a horse blanket. He had
great mechanical skill. and,
which is unsual in a rookie, he
seemed to know what playing
In the big leagues was all about.
OF course. the oldsters helped him
to some degree Just as they do with
every busher. But he never leaned too
heavily on them. He was bowling
along at q great clip-and then he
fell ILL.,
His illness wasn't the only hazard
that was dropped into the Cardinals
path as they swept toward q pen
nant. Paul Dean pulled up with a
lame arm. Roy Parmelee couldn't
win and the pitching staff generally
went to pieces, 50 that II it hadn't
been for Dizzy Dean the Cards
wouldn't have been in the race. Near
the end of the campaign I was dis
cussing with Frisch all the things
that had happened to the St. Louis
entry.
THE loss of Paul Dean certainly
hurt you lot," said.
Yes Frank said, "but the loss
Of Stu Martin hurt us more. We
could have survived the loss of Paul
II Stu hadn't got sick. I still think
he would have pulled us through in
spite Of everything"
Evening star., 1937-02-16
FROM THE PRESS BOX
New Orleans Boxing Fiasco Proves
Humiliating to One Mushkv Jackson.

tanker, and on Mr.. Mushky Jackson,
the honest dealer in tankers.
The commissioners also tried
to involve your learned friend,
Uncle Michael Jacobs, but I'm
Gle Mike would have none of IL.
'All know is what I read in the
papers," said Mr.. Jacobs, speaking
from his New York sports emporium.
the Hippodrome The only time I
ever had dealings with Torrance was
when tried to line him up for a track
meet. 1t looks as though them fellas
down in Loozyana have got themselves
all twisted up"
So the rap, if there Is a rap. will
have to be taken by Mr.. Mushky
Jackson. In case you don't know Mr..
Jackson. I'd better tell you something
about him.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
APPling Pay Tops
For SOx Product

CHICAGO, February 16 R.-
Luke Appling, who won the
American League batting title last
season, Is going to become the
highest paid Of all ball players de-
veloped by the Chicago White Sox.
Appling, who has asked $20.-
900 contract for 1887, yesterday
was offered $17,500 by Lou Comis-
key, Sox president, and If and when
he accepts that figure Appling will
hit an all-time high for players
trained and brought up by the
club.
Comiskey, who previously had
offered Appling a $4,000 salary
plus a $2,500 bonus-attendance
clause. said he expected Appling's
signed contract within . few days.
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A Soft Touch, Says Phillips.

THIS Torrance is a soft touch, a
baby could kick him over" said
Mr.. Phillips, land I don't want to
dive for him."
Of course. 1t has been common
knowledge in cauliflower circles for
some time now that Torrance can't
fight lick Your correspondent men,
toned the fact over a week ago. Tor
rance is a huge fellow, and great
shot-putter, but these vastly athletes
always make the most dismal kind Of
fighters. Torrance was what the ex-
perts call good freak bet" Built
up Sufficiently, he might have drawn
two or three fair gates with better
known fighters.
But big Jacks fight career ended
abruptly when Mr. Phillips, the tank
er, blew the whistle. All hands imme-
diately were hailed before the Louisi-
ana boxing commissioners, who ex-
onerated Mr.. Torrance and slapped
$500 plasters on his manager, one Herb
Brodie, and on Mr.. Phillips, the honest
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Starting Early.

I AM not signing him to play foot ball,
but if I find he also is a double
and homer threat, it will be all right
with me. I thought it good idea
TO bring these young fychasers down
early so they will have a start on
the experienced outfielders.
also will get my first glimpse of
Catcher Earle Brucker, who helped
the Portland club win the Pacific
Coast pennant last year by hitting
.s3s.
A week later will see my new
mf1elders. I am anxious to get an
eyeful of Oliver Blakeney, a short
stop who played with Sioux City last
year. He was developed by Dave
Bancroft, himself one of the top
notch shortstoppers of his time.
This year am depending lot on
my youths. They can't come too good
for me. I am not the only manager
In the majors who feels that way.
(Copyrisht. 1887. Reproduction in whole
or In part prohibited without permission.)
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Varsity Quints

George Washington. "a; westmin-
Catholic q. -; John Marshall. 80.
Waynesburg: "a Glenville, A..
Georgis Tech. 43: Florida. 81.
Alabama, 3S Mississippi. "a.
L. s. u. 40: Mississippi State. a.
Loyola, 33: Southwestern La. Inst. %,
Davidson; 46; Citadel "a.
Auburn. Al Clemson, 80.
Concord, Al; Emory and Henry. 80.
Purdue. 81; Illinois. "a
Ohio State. 80: Northwestern, 80,
Michigan. 50: Indiana. 81.
Minnesota, ~: Iowa, 81.
Oklahoma. 2s; Iowa State, go.
Notre Dame 40: CanisiuS, SO,
Niagara. 81 St. Bonaventure. 40
western Reserve. 40; Ohio Wesleyan.
Nebraska. 40: Kansas State. 81.
Knox, So: Monmouth, 43.
OREGON. 40; Idaho IL
Bowling Green. A.: Denison. 80.
Central State Teachers. "a: Northern
Teachers. 81
Depauw. y: Ball State. 25.
Central. IS: Parsons. %
Buena Vista, 40: Wartburg. 80.
Sogth Dakota o.. "A: South Dakota
Macalaster. IS: Hamline 27.
Winona Teachers. 35: Stout. a6.
Berea, Al: Georgeton College. as.
Eastern Kentucky, IS; Centre. "a.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
BY SCOTTY RESTON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated fIeSS Sports writer.
N YEw YORK, February 16.-
nj James j. Braddock, the
v most active referee ever to
4 ' hold the heavyweight
championship, leaves tonight for
Pittsburgh on another charity job.
:. The champs the most willing
gent in town He hasn't for
gotten his own days on charity
Every night or so he's helping
somebody out.
Babe Ruth wasn't in Bermuda
five minutes yesterday before ne
was in the limelight An adj
mirer rushed up to present him
with three bottles of vintage wine.
.. This was fine, explained the
Evening star., 1937-02-16
TARSEY GUEST SPEAKER
Potomac Yachtsmen to Hear
Noted Sailmaker Thursday.

Ernest Tarsey, one of the foremost
authorities on yacht sails and SAIL
making in America, will be guest
speaker Thursday night at the second
session of the Winter series of lee
lures of the Potomac River Sailing
Association. The meeting will be held
at the Capital Yacht Club, starting at
$50 o'clock.
The associations annual meeting will
be held February "a at the Corinthian
Yacht Club, at which time election of
officers will be held
Evening star., 1937-02-16


club went South for the purposes of
training. 1 can't recall any earlier
tour
This was nothing like present-day
de luxe trips, but it started something.
We travelled to Florida in day coaches
and lived in two cottages close to
the ball park, where a kind old lady
gave lis room and board for 81 day
each.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
WASHINGTON FIRST.
TO TRY FAR SOUTH
Far Cry From '88 Trip to
Mexican Venture of AS
Impresses Connie.
BY CONNIE MACK.

~ ONE to think of it, I made my
4 first training camp trip nearly
so years ago, but today, as I
~ finish packing to start our
Athletics batterymen for Mexico City
Thursday. I get the same old thrill,
or should say the same new thrill?
1t was in 1888, the year of the bliz-
Evening star., 1937-02-16

zard, when I took
my first training
trip. I then was
a catcher with
the Washington
club and Ted
S ulliv n our
manager, won a
reputation for
audacity and en-
terprise when he
took us to jack
sonville, Fla, for
a two-week stay.
My belief is
that this was the
first time that
Evening star., 1937-02-16

NOW Stu Martin is reported as be-
ing seriously i'll again, and the
chances are that, even if he RECEIVERS
rapidly, he will not be ready to go
to the post with the rest of the Cards
when the base ball season opens.
His absence from the lineup may off,
set the addition of Lon Warneke to
the pitching staff and of several
other Improvements Frisch has
wrought since the Cards pulled up in
the ruck last year.
Meanwhile, somebody has to play
second base and right now it looks as
though it will have to be Frisch.
There undoubtedly will be a handful
OF frisky youngsters at Daytona, where
the Cards will train this year, striving
20 show that they are good enough
TO play second base at least until Stu
is able TO go back to work.
But I have a hunch that.
when the bell rings and the
National League teams surge
across the starting line. or
Pappy Frisch. as Dizzy calls
him, will be at second base
again.
That will not be so bad, you say.
Better TO have an old head on the Job
than a young one Better to have a
second baseman in there who knows
all the snswers-who has come down
through II full major league cam
paigns and part Of another-a second
baseman who has been tested under
fire and has stood up-and who has
earned a rating as one Of the best
second basemen Of all time.
That's right. Still, although it is
difficult to realize it at times, Frisch
has been pounding the major league
trails for 1s years. And his hardest
job Is likely to be that Of getting
ready for another whirl. Frank is SO
years old and the frame that weighed
only about l40 pounds when he first
lugged it to glory weighs at least Is
pounds more now. A few of those
pounds will have to come of before
the barrier is sprung in April and,
when you are SO and have put 18
years Of base ball behind you, the
poundage doesn't slip off very easily.
Doesn't Seem That Long.
EIGHTEEN years! 1t doesn't seem
- that long-although. to Frisch,
there are times when it must seem
ljke hundred reare at Iaa.t .;..-
he came bouncing off the campus at
Fordham and landed In a Giant uni
form.
After a brief period Of training.
during which he was in and out of
the lineup. John McGraw stuck him
in as a replacement for Larry Doyle
at second base in the opening game
OF critical series with the Reds.
Frank fumbled the first ball
that was hit to him-but he
pounced on it and whipped it to
first base in time to retire the
hitter and right there McGraw
knew he had found a real ball
player.
That was better than having him
field it. cleanly," McGraw said, right
after the game. When he bobbled it
and still came up with it and made
the play, knew he had two things
that 60 into the making of ball
player
"One was the courage that made
him keep trying after he had booted
one in what. for a youngster, must
have been tough spot.
The other was the speed that made
the play possible. Give me a young
ster with courage and speed and I'll
do lot with him"
Well, he certainly did a lot with
Frisch
(copyright, 1887. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1937-02-16
Spring Camps Still Thrilling Mack, Marvel of Sports World
THE SPORWIGHT
Cards Hopes Hinge on Elderly Frisch
With Stu Martin on Ailing List Again
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

AT THE TURN OF THE ROAD.
When Dho rule do,Dnu he
With poDer in your bdtten triumph your shield,
Before the head starts welino from elastic thrill
Look out against the skyline where training for the day.
A better man than you are is aluays the way
And Dhen hear the tuul that rings against
The TAR Dept rolling thunder that leaps fame,
Don't breathe it in too deeply, don't far
Don't build your future on it, howeuer high you are,
For youU hear louder cheering when your final fling
You fade into the hadows king
So let this thought in passing scittly in your SOUL
The tun is in the batte-but seldom the goal
And Dhen the Ddy seems easy put this down for bet
No matter Dhdt the booty for uhat you get;
By barrier and rampant, along the highways length
Through burden and through pressure struggle leads renrt
Evening star., 1937-02-16

best known to himself he took it on
the lam, disappearing from the prem
ises a few minutes before the fight
and turning up subsequently with the
announcement that he did not intend
to tank for nobody, nohow.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
What a Change!

WE SLEPT on cots, three to four to
w a room, and liked it, We had
ham and eggs every day and liked it..
We had mosquitoes every night and
liked it. We were the envy of the
league!
Since that piddling excursion Of 1888
I have taken many more training
trips, 81 in the American League alone
but this is the first tour that ever sent
me to a foreign country and moreover
into the torrid zone.
A year ago Cincinnati and the Car
dinals spent brief time in the West
Indies before going to Florida, but the
Athletics are the first to go outside
the Nation for tn, full distance
We will stay in Mexico more than
five weeks.
l see no reason why I should not
find Mexico City congenial and
picturesque conditioning spot. The
city is more than 5000 feet above the
sea level and 1 never heard of any
body who went there who didn't have
q good word for it.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
Mexico Interested in Game.

THEN again We know there is
wide-awake base ball interest in
the southern republic. There is no
end Of teams there. During our stay
we will play only Mexican opponents.
We must wait until we are on the
way back to meet major league teams.
Perhaps some of my readers will
imagine that the lack OF major
league opposition in March may cramp
our style. I don't think so. After
all, games in March and early April
are used mainly to get players in
physical condition and sharpen their
base ball wits.
You can attain this end without
tn wear and tear of battling first
division teams. Anyway, We will have
a good dress rehearsal for our first
games Of the pennant season when We
return to Philadelphia to meet the
Phillies for the city championship.
Not to Vary Training.
lust because We are going to train
in a foreign country, am not
going to change my usual training
routine.
On the first day I will have ali
players running TO strengthen their
legs and improve their wind. Then
fundamentals will start. Everybody
will begin unlimbering arms and
hone none of them creak.
Bunting games and fungo hitting
will be inceSsant and, after the first
day, the pitchers will be throwing
under restraint to the hitters.
My first detachment will consist of
coaches. pitchers and catchers and,
in addition, I am going to take with
them three rookie outfielders, all COL
legians.
They are Bill Nicholson of Wash
ington College. Chestertown, Md, and
two North Carolina collegians, Floyd
Yount of Wake Forest and Clarence
(Ace) Parker of Duke University. I
am told that Parker is an all-Ameri-
can foot ball selection, real triple
threat in the backfield.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
Sees Loss of Color.

DAVE WALSH Of New York, who
oficiated in the Notre Dame
Canisius game, admitted the speed-up
merits of the new rules, but asserted
that elimination Of the center jump
robbed the game of lot of color"
The center tap was abandoned ex-
cept at the start of the halves. After
each basket the team not scoring
took the ball out Of bounds under the
basket.
The three-second rule as it applies
inside the foul circle was changed to
become operative only when a man in
the circle had possession of the ball.
The orthodox game provides that no
man, whether or not he has the ball,
may remain in the foul circle for more
than three seconds while his team is
on the offensive.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
BASKET GAME SOUGHT.

A game with some unlimited basket
ball team is wanted for Thursday
night by the Mount Rainier A. c.
courtmen. Call Greenwood 2477.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
TO ROLL SWEEPSTAKES
A. & P. Event Is Slated Thursday
Night at Silver Spring.

NISHC dI oIIVtr SprInS.
The singles sweepstakes of the Great
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'S Bowling
League will be held Thursday night at
the Silver Spring Alleys. An entry fee
of SO, which includes the cost of the
five games, will be charged.
M. j. Casey, currently leading the
league with a lis average, will roll
from scratch, the remaining pinmen
receiving handicaps of the total differ
ence Of their averages to 115.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
SEE SAME BASKET
CODE AF TER TESTS
No Tap-off Speeds up Play
But RobS Game of Color,
Officials Conclude,
BY the Associated Press,

~ UFFALO, N. Y, February 16.-
- Niagara University and St.
/ Bonaventure College expert
- mented last night with three
innovations designed to speed basket
ball play and left officials today in a
muddle of disagreement on their
merits.
The game was played prelim-
mary to Notre Danes victory over
Canisius, 40 to &C. The center jumu
after each point was eliminated, the
three-second rule banished and all
jump balls we're tossed in either of
the foul circles or in the center ring
Niagara won. 81 to 40.
Although officials of both games
agreed the new rules, especially that
eliminating the tap-off, speeded the
action, Referee Paul Fitting and Um-
pire Vince Mcnamara united in de-
claring they did not think the rules
revision will get any place"
Evening star., 1937-02-16
Relaxation Builds Courage.

THIS is q habit ingrained with the
years. It is doubtful If even he
could tell how long ago he began it.
But it is the well-spring. not only Of
his endurance, but also Of the courage
that prompts him to do the surpris-
ing things that he does-such as
tearing his team apart and selling it
of, piece by piece. and starting to
put together a new one when he was
u years old
Building a ball team is an arduous
and soul-trying job for a young man,
yet he plunged into it more blithely
than any young man I can think of,
scanning the list of the other major
league managers.
Long may he relax! The game isn't
likely ever to have another like him.
Copyright, 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance 'ncJ
Evening star., 1937-02-16
Sees Three in Race.

THE National League race this year
is between the Cubs. Cards and
Giants" the manager of the ST. Louis
Brown declared
I think any one of those three
teams is capable of winning If they
get the breaks.
''AS for the American League, the
Yanks and Detroit are stronger than
any Of the others, although Cleveland
may show something this year If that
boy Feller comes through.
The Browns? Oh, We'll have an
improved team and hope to develop
a contender within the next two
years. Our farm system, and We have
IL farm teams, should start working
next year. You see, it takes from
three to five years for them to start
developing players Of major league
ability"
Three hundred aspirants to base
ball fame got taste of the rigors Of
major league training camp game
today.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
Spend an Active Day.


THE youths we're all set to open
up" before the critical eyes of
Dizzy Dean, Lon Warneke. Hornsby
and other eminents. Instead they
engaged in limbering up exercises.
went for a Jog over Hot Springs
Mountain and ended up with Glass
room" lectures.
Profs. Dean, Warneke and Charles
O'Leary, st. Louis Brown coach, re-
tired to one corner of the base ball
lot with the pitchers and catchers
while Hornsby took the infielders and
outf1elders under his wing
In another corner, a group attend
ing the umpiring school received their
first lesson in calling them" from
Prof. George Barr, National League
arbiter.
Bob Feller, sensational Cleveland
hurler, who also will be an instructor
at the school. is expected next week.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
Hardly q Secret.

THERE isn't any secret to connie's
endurance, his magnificent indif-
ference to the marching years. At
least, if there is. it is no fault of his.
The source of his strength is the
ability to relax-which is the first
knack young athlete in any branch
Of sport should acquire. Managing
a big league ball club imposes q ter
rifle strain on a man. and there are.
roughly speaking. two hours a day
from April to October in which this
strain is inescapable.
But he can fortify himself against
1t and hasten the passing of it by
relaxing before and after game time.
This is what Connie does: He rises
early, eats light and leisurely break
fast, goes to Shibe Park when the
Athletics are at home, attends to his
correspondence and any other details
of the sever ofices he fills-and
then lies down for at least an hour
before game time.
After the game he returns to his
ONCE and lies down again, usually for
half an hour When the team is
on the road, he leaves the hotel just
in time to get to the ball park for
the game and returns to the hotel as
soon after the game as possible-being
careful to lie down before ant after
the game, however.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
LASH AIMS TO Be
CRIMINAL CHASER
Flashy Runner Is Studying
Police Administration
Work at Indiana.
BY the Associated Press.

l
~ LOOMINGTON, Ind, February
* 16.-When Don Lash, Indi-
ana University's Iron man"
distance runner, decides 20
give up chasing world track records he
intends to devote his time to chasing
criminals.
Lash, who set a new world indoor
record fer the 2-mile run at Boston
Saturday night by running the dis
tance in 8:58, returned here today and
Immediately started running again
But before he started out on a 4
mile jaunt he disclosed he has become
interested in police methods and law
enforcement problems and would like
to get a job with the Indiana State
police when he leaves school.
Will Go to Harvard.
I ASH, a senior at Indiana. is study
ing police administration work
under Lieut.. Donald Kooken of the
State police and w. I. Splitter, chief
investigator for the Monon Railroad.
Don plans to study a semester at
Harvard after he leaves Indiana and
then go into police work But, he
also has his eyes on the 1910 Olympic
games and an opportunity to get even
with the Finnish distance runners
who gave him such drubbing in last
years games He could coach track
after this year, but he doesn't intend
to become ineligible for the 1910
Olympics.
Lash will go back to New York
later this week to run in the New
York A. C. games Saturday night. He
said he would compete only in the
2-mile event.
Evening star., 1937-02-16
An Authority on Tanking.

MUsHKY is a small and buoyant
citizen with a weather-beaten
pan and a heart Of gold. He used to
fight little, but most of his career
has been devoted to jotting down the
names and telephone numbers Of large
palookas who are willing to take it on
the chin for a 10-spot. Mr.. Jackson
is sort of walking employment agen-
cy for tank fighters. He will take
them on tour himself, or he will sup
ply them on order No one loves to
discuss the fine points of tanking more
than Mushky
When Joe Louis IS training for q
fight, often you will see Mushky stand
ing on a street corner in New York
lining up big. nondescript men, white
and black, to spar with the Brown
Bomber. Louis is very rough on spar
ring partners.
The wear and tear Is terrific,
and so is the turnover. Mr..
Jackson's task Is to keep the
Bomber supplied with fresh
specimens.
He also is Joe'S escort and general
factotum in the Eastern area. They
even go hunting together, and Mushky
denies strenuously that that fat deer
they brought back with them from the
Maine woods last year was run down
by Mr.. Louis motor vehicle with the
headlights on.
You don't bump of deers that
way" insists Mr.. Jackson. "It amt
cricket. When you see a deer you
take out your rod and put the heat
on him. That's how you bump of
deers."
Gets His Instructions.
NOW, getting away from Mushky
= for the moment, it is the conten-
ton of the man who blew the whistle,
Mr.. Earl Phillips, that he was stand
ing around gymnasium in New York
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