Evening star., 1939-02-18
Scant Publicity
Club Gives Has
Soured City.
Strips School Rated
Over Griffmen as
Tourist Magnet
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Qfor StoH rarraeropaapt

BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Star Stan Correspondent.
ORLANDO, Fla, Feb. 18.-Orlan-
do, "the city beautiful" to read the
travel books and pronounced by
President Clark Griffith as a per-
feet baseball training sSot, may not
open welcome gates to the Senators
in 1910, it was revealed today by a
source close to the fathers of this
thriving little Central Florida town.
ship.
Grifitl., owner of the Washington.
ball club, unconsciously demanded
a showdown, 1t was said, when he
announced intentions of moving his
st. Augustine baseball school" to
Orlando next year.
HE will need the big ball park
Tinker Field-and he won't get it,"
said the informant. THE Orlando
Chamber of Commerce already is
behind Joe Strip. who has been
running school for several seasons.
AS matter Of fact, Orlando doesn't
want the Washington club very
much"
Bigger" Club Favored.
In tracing down the reason why
Orlando doesn't seem to be very
cordial to the Senators at present
it is discovered that Florida's citrus
center. called by nearly all diamond
experts as the ideal training site, is
cunning for bigger clubs"
Orlando would like a club like
the Yankees, to be perfectly frank" I"
added the informant. THE other
day the Orlando Junior Board of
Trade met and heard Strip make a
speech in behalf of his school as
against Griffth's. AS you know,
Strip is local man. He has done
a great deal for the city, whereas
Griffith has been Disappointing
BY disappointing" it was ex-
planned, the owner of the Senators
hasn't succeeded in bringing Or
lando the volume of publicity it was
led to expect.
Pirates May Come Here.
Mostly" was the unofficial ex-
PLANTATION. wed like to get the YAM
KEGS down here. We'd like to have
the Giants or the Dodgers, too.
Those clubs bring from 8 to Is news
papermen with them. AS for WASH
ington, we understand thereu be
only three this year."
Next to New York or BROOKLYN
team, to hear the off-the-record
spokesman, a Boston club would be
desired most. This, of course, is for
geographic and financial reasons.
Boston is where cold weather hits,
and if casual promotion, such as a
baseball training camp is alluring,
Orlando reasonably may count upon
a squadron of Massachusetts tour
lists.
1t may develop. and it is entirely
probable, that Griffith will come
back to Orlando next year promis-
ing to bring the Pittsburgh Pirates
as running mates. He has done so
the last two years, according to
the local city fathers. But if Griff
succeeds in moving his baseball
School" from st. Augustine to Or
| lando it will be a tribute to the Old
Fox's salesmanship. To hear a voice
from Orlando it is Strip they want,
chiefly because he gets more pub
licity for the town than the Wash
ington ball club and also because
he is local man.
Esty No Help to Ortiz.
Scout Joe Cambria, who imported
both of the Cubans, wishes that
Bobby Estalella weren't on hand to
help Pitcher Roberto Ortiz at the
moment :. He'll make Ortiz lazy"
explains Cambria, land Ortiz won't
learn much . AS a matter of fact,
I wish Monteagudo, the little left
handler. would get here in a hurry
. He'd teach Ortiz more than
Estalella and the rest of them fell
lers put together"
Cambria claims the Mats can't
finish lower than third this year
If Harris gets any kinds of breaks"
:. "Mathewson Che means Walter
Masterson, Ortiz, Monteagudo and
Krakauskas will pitch the WASH
ington team into the first DIVISION" !"
says Mysterious Joe, the Lonesome
Scout, "and Case and Wright will
bat the club into the money"
1t might be mentioned, though, that
Masterson, Ortiz, Monteagudo, Kra-
kauskas, Case and Wright all are
finds" of Cambria.
In four more days the Mats will
move from Exposition Park to
Tinker Field, which is the big ball
park in town If Griff remains
in Orlando, which is doubtful, he
undoubtedly will bring the Pitts
burgh Pirates here to train with the
Mats In that event the Pirates
will inherit Tinker Field while
Griff will ask for a new downtown
park to be built for his team.