Evening star., 1940-11-03
Griffs 10 Face Tigers
Nine Times With II
Exhibitions Listed
PhiIIies Replace Rees;
Champion Reds Will
Be First Opponents
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

An ambitious spring training
schedule, a third of which requires
the Mats to tangle with pennant-
winning Detroit, was announced for
the Washington baseball club yes
terday by President Clark Griffith,
nine games with the Tigers being
listed among the 81 engagements.
Twenty-one of the tilts will be
with major league opposition, with
Kansas City, st. Paul, Milwaukee
and Baltimore splitting the remain
ing half dozen games. Last season
the Mats booked only "a spring
training games and none Of those
were against minor league opposi-
ton.
Washington will launch its exhi-
bition slate on March 8 at Tampa,
meeting the world champion Gin
cinnati club. The Mats also will face
the Reds in another game, to be
played at Orlando March Is. Wash
ington did not play the Reds last
spring and has dropped Cleveland,
which 1t met twice.
Also of the Mats schedule are the
Boston Bees, but added are the lowly
Phillies, who are listed for four
games, at Miami Beach, Orlando,
Goldsboro, N. c., and Martinsville,
Va, the latter two as the Mats head
homeward.
Washington will collide with the
Tigers six times in eight days early
in April. with two games being
carded for the Griffs' base at Or
lando, two more for the Tigers
training site at Lakeland. and one
game each at Charlotte, N. c., and
Greenville, S. C. That string of
games will be started April 2, with
q battle with the PhillieS sand
wiched in on April S.
The New York Giants will pro-
vide the Mats opposition in four
games, the first two scheduled for
Orlando on March II and IL, while
the st. Louis Cardinals will be met
in a brace of games on home-and-
home basis, the Mats invading st.
Petersburg on March IA and the
Cards travelling to Orlando on
April /.
After the Mats start spring cam
paigning they will enjoy only eight
days on which games are not
booked. playing the Orioles here
and at Baltimore before the open
ing game of the regular season on
April Is. The game with Baltimore
here on April IL will be the only
exhibition Washington will play at
Griffith Stadium.
The Tigers, only American League
team to be faced by the Mats in
spring training games, are calcu-
lated to be hampered considerably
by GrifiithS rule which prohibits
the junior circuit pennant winner
from trading. A deal which may
materialize with Detroit, however
is the shipping of Second Baseman
Buddy Myer to the Tigers by way
of the waiver route. Following is
the schedule:
March Q. Cincinnati at Tampa; IL
New York Giants at Orlando; IL. New
gort Giants g, St Ps,.nS0 a. ST. LTi
ft natl at Orlando: Is. Detroit at IT, Orlando
| 2l, Detroit at Orlando: %, Kansas Cit,
at Lake Wales: %. Detroit at Lakeland
"a. St. Paul at Leesburs; 25. MilTauket
%. Philadelphia Nationals at Miam
Beach; 90, New York Giants at Miami; 80
| New York Giants at Miami.
April l. St. Louis Cardinals at Orlando
9. Detroit at Lakeland; 4. Detroit at Or
| lando: 5, Philadelphia Nationals at Or
| lando: g. Detroit at Lakeland: z, De-
| troit at Orlando; g. Detroit at Charlotte
N. c.: o. Detroit at Greenyille. s. c.: 10
| Philadelphia Nationals at Goldsboro, N. c.;
IL Philadelphia Nationals at Martins
| vile, Va: 12. Baltimore at washinston
| 13 Baltimore at Baltimore.