Evening star., 1941-03-26
Griffs May Gain
Slab Aid From
Tribe, Yanks
Bucky Ready to Grob
Any or All of Five
Rookie HurIers
BY FRANCIS Z. STAN,
Star EtaH Hnrrernnr,dnnt

ORLANDO, Fla, March 26.-This
may be as good a time as any for
Washington baseball fans to brush
up on the backgrounds of fellows
like George WaShburn, Bill Zuber.
George Barley, Calvin Dorset and
Donald Pulford.
They are not among the latest
batch of draftees from Polk County,
Fla. They are, instead, young men
who hope to earn living by throw
ing basebaIls. They are scattered
around the State of Florida, and the
big bosses of the Mats, Clark Griffith
and Bucky Harris. hope to pick up
one, two or all of them any day now.
MeSSrs. Washburn and Barley at
the moment are training with the
Yankees. 1t developes that unless
they are retained they must be put up
for waivers. Washburn is a right
handler, standing over s feet, and
last year he won 18 and lost only 8
with Newark. Barley also is from
Newark. where he won Is and lost g.
Current Staff Is Short.
The others, from the Cleveland
camp, pitched in Fort Myers Zuber
is 6-foot Pinch right -hander
whose hold on a job with the Indians
is precarious. He hasn't done much
yet but he's fast. Puiford only won
he, too, is well liked here. Dorset
is a guy who won seven and lost
three for the same team. Wilkes
Barre.
The pitching staff which Harris Is
commanding at the moment is no
kind of a corps to carrying into
championship competition. Griffith
and Harris know this. Walter
MaSterson has yet to prove him.
self able to pitch at regular in
tervals. Danny MacFayden is only
a stop-gap who knows all about
pitching but lacks the arm with
which to pitch. Sam Cunningham
is likely prospect but he lacks speed
and experience at the moment.
Arnold Anderson may or may not
make the grade He is Straddllng
| the fence. There is James Henry
Dean, also a rail-jockey. and when
all is added up the Mats have only
( Ken Chase, Dutch Leonard and Sid
Hudson as standbys, Masterson as
a spot pitcher and Alexandra Car
rasquel as a relief pitcher, to depend
upon.
AS Have First Crack.
1t is likely that the Mats will get
one or more of these pitchers, with
| such others as Johnny Murphy of
| the Yankees and Harry Eisenstat Of
| the Indians as possibilities. The A. 3
have first crack, since they finished
/ last in the 1910 race, but Connie
Mack may permit one or two to
! trickle through and the Washington
club, for the waiver price of $500,
is expected to turn nobody down.
1t is a case. actually, of doubling
the judgment of Managers Joe Nc
| Carthy of the Yankees and Roger
Peckinpaugh of the Indians. If they
put the wrong pitchers on the block,
it will look bad for them. Neither
| figures to go wrong. but baseball his
tory is replete with instances Of
crack managers making poor
guesses. Ty Cobb, when he managed
Detroit, turned down Carl Hubbell.
If the Mats could get, say. Zuber
and Washburn, they would be in
position to send Anderson. Cunning
ham and one or two others. Harris
long has been an admirer OF WASH
burn and, if he got him, undoubtedly
would make him his fourth starter,
relegating Masterson to fifth. This
would leave Zuber and Carrasquel
for relief purposes. and Dean and
MacFayden to mop up games lost
beyond recall.