Evening star., 1943-03-07
Six Strange Hur|ers,
Catcher 10 Report
To Pilot BIuege
Fons Will Be Admitted
Free to Dolly Drills
On Maryland Field

'Vs~' sStS
Washington's introduction to tn,
muscle-toning process, feature O
the spring training camp of majo
league baseball team, will come i,
week from tomorrow when II pitch
ers, three catchers and one ambi
tious and probably overweight
outfielder launch workouts on thu
University of Maryland's field al
College Park under the critical eye
of Manager Ossie Bluege Of tht
Mats.
For the first time IN the history
of the Mats the team will hole
spring training within car toker
distance of the Capital. Washing.
toms 1943 camp will be stocked with
many innovations, including a new
manager, a swarm of new players
a new training site and a restricted
but interesting, exhibition schedule
The Mats will be training at Col
lege Park, where most of them also
will eat and sleep, primarily be-
cause Commissioner of Baseball
Kenesaw Mountain Lands ruled nc
major league club could go below
the Potomac or Ohio Rivers fol
their conditioning grinds.
Washington theoretically will vio-
late that edict when it goes to Nor
folk for five exhibition games, but
on that trip the Mats will be play
ing Norfolk Naval Training Station
and Norfolk Naval Air Base teams
two of the many service outfits on
their spring slate.
Six New Hurlers in Squad.
In the first squad will be six
pitchers unfamiliar to local fans
and missing will be such familiar
figures as Pitcher Sid Hudson, in the
Army, and Pitcher Walter Master
son and Catcher Al Evans, both
In the Navy.
Holdovers from the disastrous
1912 team include Dutch Leonard
out most of last season with a bro
ken leg; Alexandra Carrasquel, Rae
Scarborough, Early Wynn and Bill
Kennedy, the last-named the only
southpaw in the group.
Several promising newcomers will
attract the attention of fans, who
will be admitted free to all work.
outs. From Minneapolis will come
Pitchers Owen Sheetz and Milton
Haefner. From Atlanta President
Clark Griffith Of the Mats plucked
Jim Mertz. From Toledo he
snatched Ewald Pyle and from the
New York Yankees he obtained
Milo Candini
John Bunnell, big right-hander
who pitched semi-pro ball in De-
troit, rounds out Grifath's curving
corps and of the crop probably only
Leonard and Wynn are assured
starting jobs. OF the newcomers,
Grif1th rates Pyle, left-hander
who saw some service with the St.
Louis Browns, as the most prom
1sing. q e4arta n
Giuliani Rejoins Catchers. 81
Jake Early, whose eye trouble
handicapped him seriously last sea-
son as he dipped to a painful 202
batting mark, will be forced to
battle with Angelo Giuliani, a
former Nat who returns to the fold
via draft from Minneapolis. for the
No. / catching assignment. Gath
ering up what catching crumbs
fail to fall to that pair will be Odell
Barbary, youngster with Charlotte
Of the Piedmont League last year.
Bobby Estalella, who played his
exclusive version of third base for
the Mats last season, this year
will be returned to the outfleld, but
probably as an understdy to the
regulars, George Case. Gene Moore
and Stan Spence. Estalella, who
has been toiling in a local bottling
plant. will work out with the pitch
ers and catchers. Sherrard Robert
son, an infielder who is Griffith's
nephew, also may work with the
battery boys.
ALI pitchers and catchers are
signed and the only Mats not now
in the fold are Mickey Vernon
Gerald Priddy and George Myatt
Receipt of Cases signed contract
was announced yesterday a few
hours after Moore's signing was an
nounced officially Griffith antici-
pates no trouble, however, in getting
the others signatures by the time
the second squad of inflelders ano
outfielders reports on March "a.
Griff revealed that Cases papers
called for substantial boost ir
salary and makes him the highest
paid player on the squad. In this
respect he supplanted Newsom. The
fleet outfelder led the league ir
stolen bases with "A and enjoyed
his best season at the plate, hanging
up a .320 average.