Evening star., 1940-03-09
Baseball Lights
For Griff Park
In Making
Eynon's Orlando Trip
Is Tipoff Contract
Bids Are in Hand
BY q Staff Correspondent Of The Star

By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ORLANDO, Fla, Marchc o.
Dutch Leonard's butterfly ball is
going to undergo a transformation
in July. It's going to become a
moth ball on occasions because
Dutch and the rest of the Ma
tionals are going to play some base
ball in Washington under the lights.
Clark Griffith, president of the
Nationals, won't confirm it, def
nitely. II haven't finished study
ing the contract bids" he said to-
day, but I'm interested in INSTALL
ing a lighting system at the right
price"
En- route South, however, is Secre-
tary Edward B. Eynon, jr., and this
is taken to mean only one thing
Eynon has the bids in his pocket
because, normally. he does not ac-
company the Mats to training camp.
Alex Arrives by Boat.
The well-founded suspicion that
work will be started in Griffith
Stadium shortly-it is estimated by
contractors with whom Griff has
talked that the job will require three
months-topped off day marked
by Cd A new drop in temperature
and bowling winds; Cd the arrival
of the missing Alexandra Carras-
quel, and 90 A sudden increase
in Scout Joe Cambria's S self respect.
With the New York Giants due
tomorrow for the first Grapefruit
League game of the season, the
Mats practice was limited to a mere
performance before the newsreel
cameramen. Only the Regulars
dressed and braved the cold and
high winds. The afternoon work.
out of the Yannigans was called of. .
Carrasquel, who was due to re-
port with the veteran pitchers and
regulars on March /, reported yes
terday afternoon after a five-day
boat trip from his home in Telares,
Caracas, Venezuela. 1t seems that
Alex couldn't get boat until March
3 and, when he did, it went straight
to New York.
Mr.. Cambria Is Elated.
In corresponding with Griffith
the South American announced
that he was going to take the Pam
American Clipper. but apparently
he changed his mind
She's no guide for me-" he ex-
planned to Manager Bucky Harris.
She's a too, how you say, way up?
I look out and get seeck. mebbe No
guide. The boat, she's a mooch
better"
Cambria's big moment came when
word from Tampa told of the Gin
cinnati Reds hilarious Welcoming
Committee for four Cubans selected
by the Antilles government. Mr..
Cambria previously had visited Cuba
and blithely swiped the players by
signing them to contracts, but he
believed that word had spread to
Tampa, where the Reds train. Ap-
parently it didn't, because there was
brass band and Welcoming Com
mittee at the dock-and no Cuban
ballplayers on board.
Takes Law in Own Hands.
Cambria hailed the news as a
great victory for Cambria and anti
monopolists. For years now Joe
has been drawing ballplayers. chiefly
fo I1o e1o rt
chain, from Cuba. Last year when
the Cuban government and the Gin
cinnati club made an agreement in
which the cream of the Latif crop
automatically was to be dispatched
to Tampa, Cambria screamed:
They can't do that to us. That's
against the law instead of being
the law"
So Papa Joe took the law in his
own hands and beat both the Cuban
government and the Reds to the
punch. Two of the players are here
in camp. One is Third Baseman
Lou Minsal, a flashy fielder who
probably will be farmed to the Or
lando club, and the other is Out
fielder Jorge Torres, who Is ticketed
for Greenville.
Giants Invade Tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the Mats today were
hoping for a break in weather by
the time the Giants arrive. So was
the local Chamber of Commerce,
which has an eye on the box Office.
The largest crowd ever to witness
an exhibition game here optimis-
tically is expected if the sun is out.
Harris announced that Johnny
Welaj again will start in centerfield
in place of George Case. The rea-
son, he states, is. to give Case plenty
of time to get his throwing arm,
which he injured last summer, in
gsod shape. Welaj will lead of and
the rest of the lineup and batting
order will be as it was last Thurs
day against the yannigans.