Evening star., 1940-03-19
Ai|ing Williams
Upsets Harris
Hurting Plans
Peeved Pilot Seeking
Man to Replace Rook
Who Won't Work
b. a star Correspondent of The Star.

By stan correspondent OF The Star.
HAINES CITY. Fla, March 19.-
He's pretty big fellow and the
quarters may be cramped, but AL
mon Williams, the right-handed
pitcher, who formerly worked for
the Athletics and who was Chatta-
nooga's hero in the 1899 Southern
Association pennant victory, is oc-
cuping Manager Bucky Harris dog
house in the Mats training camp.
Il don't care for his attitude, >"
Harris said today of the only Wash
ington pitching recruit who hasn't
seen action in the Grapefruit
League. I'm not going to pitch
him and as far as I'm concerned he
can go back and win another pen
nant for Chattanooga.
Bucky is peeved at Williams be-
cause AL, who complained of a sore
arm the second day in camp, re-
fuses to bear down. He's COM
planning all the time" Harris said.
Plenty OF pitchers have twinges in
their arms and still throw hard
and win ball games. I can't put
him in a game the way he's feeling
about it."
Job Open on Staff.
Williams, who pitched the 1898
opening game against Washington
for the AS, was bought by the Mats
last winter after he had won IA
games and lost nine for the Look
outs. He complained of a sore arm
last summer, but toward the end of
the season ne pitched regularly and
won his last six starts to bring a
pennant to Joe Engel's club.
AL reported in Orlando with the
first squad on February Is. After
the second workout he said his arm
was sore and he has yet to throw
a ball hard enough to knock your
hat off.
Trainer Mike Martin is mystified
by the ailment and now little irri-
tated. He has been baking and mas
saying the arm, but Williams main
tains there is no improvement.
I'm tired of it." Harris COM
mented IF the guy would cut
loose he might cut himself loose
from whatever ails him. But he
won't. Engel can have him back as
far as I'm concerned"
Al was counted upon to win one of
the 10 slab jobs in Harris original
plans. The 6-foot- ot-4-inch hurler al
ways was conceded to have a good
fast ball and, according to Engel
he vastly improved his curve at
Chattanooga. But unless he emrges
from the doghouse in a hurry, the
Mats will have to operate with a
nine-man staff or carry one of the
rockies who heretofore hadn't been
considered.
Foremost candidates for the post
which had been consigned to Will
liams are Rene Monteagudo, the lit
tie Cuban southpaw; Gilberto
Torres, Cuban right-hander who
is built like a needle, and James
Henry Dean, another right handler
who won 81 games and lost in the
Florida State League last year.
Dean, even larger than Williams,
was a pitching mate of Sid Hudson's S.
A late starter, he hasn't been used
as yet, but he has shown plenty of
swift in workouts and he is touted
as highly as Hudson in some quar-
ters of this citrus belt.
Torres, who also is an infielder,
has looked fairly impressive in the
box in his two appearances, once
against Cleveland and again yester-
day against Kansas City. Gilberto
has flock of trick deliveries, in
cluding a screwball and a knuckler
Blues Are Beaten.
Here today to play the Blues in a
return game-the Mats won yester-
day, 8 to 1-our side was to use
Early Wynn and Bucky Jacobs
Tomorrow, returning to Orlando and
major league opposition, Ken Chase
Joe Haynes and either Monteagudo
or Walter Masterson will divide the
pitching against Cleveland's Indians
After losing three straight games
in grapefruit league competition, the
Mats broke their streak against
Kansas City yesterday by jumping
on two rookie Blue hurlers for ID
hits, including a tremendous home
run by Jake Early with two mates
aboard. For five INNINGS it was
quite battle. with the Mats ahead
by 81, but in the sixth, seventh and
eighth rounds the Griffmen scored
half a dozen runs off Earl Reid.
Alexandra Carrasquel, Torres and
a southpaw recruit from Detroit
semipro ranks, Sam Cunningham
held the Blues to four hits.