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Cover Outfield Position for New York
School—Expected to Be Three Letter Man
in First Year—Should Have Strong Team
In Field This Season
Former
smfid promi-
e.~t-.\~., rurh'c last war.
in making the base-
‘f’hcm'se ‘?§" K ‘
cent His“
bun Stwt‘th‘n.‘
» \‘hr‘thflran reunite. This
hal‘. rir-
¥ 5‘” "e ‘ x ‘ v-' at C0 Hf? “hi! .
as h ‘."‘e\‘ ‘- Tm bur surf“:
rd int. 1‘ ‘n N.‘ and leeketbalil
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pamre
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3:15 \~( ,, ....,~; ' 3«“,' is
, ball profusion.
‘ponent fields the nine being a strict-
.‘sas alrcmiy started to cut the aquad, .
‘at l‘~.e initial practice 65 would-be?
School Inflelder Will
Rev York Yankees. This contract
is atill open to the pmniising play-
er. who prefers to receive a college
education before taking up the has.»
The Manhattan schedule calls for
:5 Romeo with the opening content
being staged with Columbia on April
1‘ \l! came: will be played on op-
zravelin: organiaatlon.
Leer Naval-thy. llanhattan coach.
ly
ball leaner: reported but ihla Hum-i
n... . \t "w”.s.“ :‘I' tearr.‘
p. x.. - ~.. .~ u..— r-~::—.~'._\~ \ct- be.— iiaa dwindled in 18. Skidtl la
n'yr 1-?1lr tn mshrid "ns among the chosen for and. from all
r"... m- r'.’n'l:~ir( rel-run.- ard :‘~'{‘“‘.‘13 promises to an N: in his
1": 0“,. ., ‘ r“ H», y“ Nrr, ‘rst roar of college Mmll. The
“a--. -.- 4-. Xi-“Wfit‘t Athlete c.3235 has been holding daily pram.
gr...“ -v. run-.1 this 31-;- 5 tr: "salon.- and what pnfimisea to
“r, l.» i nun-m ;\ ill-kc" 2hr N one of the intern baseball year-ax
willigy .. ~—. i. on.“ aha: Ivar Cut-Ila in store {or the Manhattan col-
_..-.....~ I m. ‘ ...- . .‘nr-’.'nl‘|’ hr the . loge rune.
mull: comm Home to KEEP
Wittusox om ormcmu
Major leagues' Youngest Manager Has Vi- ;
sinns T00. of Getting into first Dmsnon—
Team Not Bad—H
" Kamm a “'onder
n .ith‘ l. l‘fie'l'l‘R
SKI." 't'.’ ‘i " . :- Mart! 23——
X’L:i.§l- . "H ‘ ‘ . “ 'ettttzv‘r
"nuns” run...” :~ ST~~fiClTé 2.
(cm. 1. ' "~ '7?” f “V: ‘ Err
lh'lm ‘ ~.» .. ‘l‘ ‘ ” ‘h‘o Com“.
urn-vest“ ’ .zx- :' rt umtts- at tile
Ski-‘4; ‘ ' ' r ‘“”
'“L ,. ‘ v- 'A'Titfilf‘: weak!
3. st." " ‘.- \t_:.:! arr-w.- a"er
t. lcar we.“ a 1:..; pos‘ttfin, consult.-
r‘ hlr"l..... .la'rts art Butler )1
3'" 7"“;5‘ " 'i:’ cr- 1hr St) Law
ere." chars“ r' amt-13; a; tea. on:
(n.
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ear.“ cila-
: main his doe:-
eeaeor is pmttt‘aib
A
Izts‘. now. and it
1‘» “'i‘.‘
sen‘md‘. has-
TD 55‘»
on; 8:
seems 53ft that
Tt‘ ~
main with the team, if not as short- .
stop. than as understudy to Collins.
That would leave ritltrr Ilax’ls 0?
Butler for the regular short and the
unused (if a: 2hr; pa: for n'illu
man.
it. ms- :~ .. inn: rang“ pin??? “ht
rest :7 .‘W‘s in Sat)! . all :2: Arthur
Pit-iti‘e' m: < ‘z...} :r. 3:.- wuy of
handhn; ‘3» :-..‘. 1!» it.” I"."f~‘h-
er's minnt- c. entrtlrg for are:
m; a: i -. t--v- tr '3 an 9.25.) gait‘
that >*t::*v.~': .. 'v': a: you or ’lf't’. tip
in 11:51 :3 l"‘ .‘.‘ :7. v3: “'11.
Col-ant: us 15.x: 1 :»...'
Buzzer t.- r lac-r :n the ground 11:
smothtrs tr: hail instead of goingr
after it wt-r a trc~ arm motion
Both r-t 'r
Ian shout-2
:hrsu Wail. If Blv‘Ciz-l-
.sz her up as tl‘r
. t‘tfiltns would haw a
hard t.rr.e d‘f‘ltllng ‘hit‘h oi 1M
othtr two it no; for thc utilm
)oh I‘ :9 1w: 1: :re that he _
keep at: long as pen-ibis.
tfirr- as
She“!
one ‘01: may»
to training can: wuhout any (XCf‘SS
ponndece trams: after him.
1.‘~' er first baseman is
"I’ve h‘t" pncitf‘ins running " he .
five pounds
t"-
mlained "Tank of!
and can cc: in 5’s: house a sttp 13..
or than l .113. in 19:4.“
“That titties ion-r t-aitzn: average
up ten FON'JSU someone suggested.
"Tee—3nd also "more. the as
rerticn that i am the slowest first
baseman in the American league."
moi-tea She-'ly. "Ron I got tirtd:
of hearing that.
man."
I arr. a reformed
Kan-1m was on the
the first prae'irr
diamond at
aftrr his arrival.
3:41.430:
It was.
a a e
A hard nmlnr.
e e e
The II-lier of that athletic field at
all Paotnrc iiearh Park will be
m up at the nest meeting of the I
Mo‘lellar. L- hem; worked 2
“"121 .
Layer who has come '
Sport Barrage
Glut and Comment of Special Inca-u:
Nat-walk Fans b
as 3 Good Shortstops—
: bel Def at“
Hummus
Cincy MET-Ea Has
Beet Pitching sum
in League. He Says
ORLANDO. Fla” Kat. X'e—Jack
~liondrieks. manager of the Cincin-
nail National League baseball ciuh.
believe. that he has the contest
hitchinl stat! in his circuit and that
the Roda will finish in third place
or higher.
"A year ago this time there were
dark days in the Reds' training
camp." he said today. "It vac then
that Pat Moran died. Cincinnati
has been fed up on a championship
hall cluh thai it did not have. This
is no alibi While the teens suffered
terribly from little. and iaiuty yet
li did nit hate the ability to union
higher than it did. it was aging—-
that team. back of speed cost may
rinse games.
“Now we have added speed. The
morale la higher. The spirit la bet-
ter. No club has a chance to gel
anysrhrre without spirit. It i. m!
it it not nece-ary to
have an all star out to win if you
have the spirit on your team.
"In Zitman. the young outfielder
purchased [tom Newark. Mn.
bought them St. Paul. and CH“.
who starred for us last year. we
have started right in getting youth
and ape-d on the club.
"The (hail! of our field captain.
Jake l‘aubtit. was a great lost We
are not csperimeniing with Br..-
.ler at flrai hat-e as the public thinla.
.l believe Brmier will fill the bill
:hetter than any busher we could
buy. My scouts and l combed the
'market for a first shelter and the
only alceptable man we found was
Noun. lull L‘clmlt already had him.
We tried to get him but could not
‘do on. Brenlar never had a regu-
.lar position on the club. yet ia‘
smooth notmn. the
lht easiest l-all
nus: any other
of
precision.
this tr 5
asrt‘e
remix of
run or 0!.
Ti. ‘.
4131' he billed only one point D.-
hind Ed Roush. “’e never loot a
lcame but year because of Bro-lat
suislti'nint for any regular.
team ha . u a trial to the rice“ ‘Onr nan. trits and Wright of
of -h:. s ....rrt of utilities. “'hat ll‘w l'm. (a were the outstanding
>5 §.gsa>».tng,: :0,- ‘-1)~,f-rg ls may-ell 524:? I“: LN year. and Cr", outhit
an ini'kithi :cr Kamm. He malt“ ,‘ -" 5:.i 520k- mcre base. than
Elihu}: difficult, it would be 3r
i-rtistta. six}: to ’0! him attempt :.
::hed fur. :.
{ti-H‘- trn: art-.2373 s'zt
dtficrrtt atmos-
phtrt surrounding the Scx thin year,
has? .‘FJSOH. at “‘1:th Earth. Fla
they were run. herhazard. “Rho“!
,a mantis"... Ever.- was acting man-
ager. and it was no aerrct that H
and th- Sax didn‘t in: along very
well together. Dunn; this period;
things happened which. when hers
actually became manager. caused
luttcrncs that lastcd all season.
'T'b. rt ts a “.5013
0‘ great \n‘ur to lirn lie knrws :.
«\man. found his friends at
Har. lie is a fixture at
.~ we} l... t i~‘r us.
l=r:s.~. l tantra as the moat her-
rt.t rookies. lie [all .880
.‘l‘ttlt‘fiil Anocililbl Ill!
My lie has made a good im-
r-revxn hut hy his flat. (In work
and l“ billing and aggressive dil-
[~.‘-,~"..C:.'i. \\ hither he will have a
.18..'T
~-.c-..-i.~l.- plate on the team is for the
trut'iinc trip to determine. 1 will
stat". limit. a: third and Bohno
a: short in the training camp games.
"i believe l have the beat pitch-
mg stat! in the league. Mm above
ed iht? goods last year. Luque. iiie‘
home
i There is no question that the mo “.4 lie was ‘ hero on the
players are pleas-.1 to 3.5x: Ccllzns ;,,f:.;,.';_ yuu know, after his great
as thtl.’ boss In the first r-lncr reward a: 19:3, He had g m g...
:h-pv T'gl'W‘f‘l him. and in :‘~ non my. ytar. He has learned his-
t-mr- :"vy knt“ ‘..z;t li- 7. .vsst‘n and I expect him to go Well
llia'u hzs WIN. 3:. has .32. ”pr-,1 1?.» tr“;
mnziun-rml ;.lul;:_\' along fhai lznc, 'iiutcy had a bad knee last
likll earl). His long eswrirnmv as :- 3pm: 5 and no a! no nae to the
1.1;.j.'.r and n; a (art‘sln 1: {raving Mir: "‘3‘ a month. lie is in md
80 is Tom Shae-
.‘mr‘c this rpri: .
:0: 3;...3; piggtrs azd 'rrir “an, i.n:‘. l‘tzt- Donahue is sure to have
and ht- \rtil 13L: ndtanfagg cf cut.- a gun: season as he is heavier and
kngu'ledgf, 'Slr’ollgm’ than ever before. Dihut.
Cellinr‘ one ambition this season it
1-: keep his club out (-1 last r-Laco
and. it possible, out or xiv: Second
aviation. He has no PXPt-C'Il'lt‘vn of
\nnnmc any pennant :. 19:1. 311.: l:
the team does as I‘ll] as he hopes
this year. he “1:. 1-» eat! for the.
.chamrionshtp of 233' in earn-33?.
outfield l! r. mian' ct:
throwing fiends l‘alk and 3105112
Lam laser. at practice a work and .
;are not art-aid to Cut the ‘mt‘; tr. tht i
:~;ate a mitt a minute. Already,
Fatima 21:! players runnmg the
lids-s attains: the outfielder: throwa.
_S(-mc rum that. so early in the
.yaar. Yet it 15 not centrist); Th:-
weathcr ht-re has heiped bring it
about. It is much warmer here
. than in California.
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i
Don‘t overlook Spencer Harris. a'
:young outfieldtr with the Box. i
“'htrex'cr he brings up. keep an eye 3
on him. Here is a player who "ill
make his name in baseball some’
(my a: sure 3.5 rate.
no".
i
pected to hold down the oenterfield‘
berth on the Manhattan College!
teatn this season. '
t
\1’
pint hr
1.
3 (Cannonball) Martin of Brooklyn
will dt'fe'nd his bantamwcight
championship against Charley
: (Phil) Rosenberg of New York in a
twill meet Harold Smith of Chim.
‘ whom
3 this owner.
,srmethin; to do this week. Joe
he czhrr Cuban. is a problem. 1
':'ti not like to pass on him yet.
May reported in better con-
. 1.0:: than I have ever seen him."
tan Nine-4-
EDDIE MARTIN
WILL DEFEND
BANI'AM TIRE
NEW YORK. March 17.~—udie
liv-round bent at Madison Square
Garden Friday night.
he a semi-final Mickey Garcia
(Bushy Graham) of Ellen. N. ‘3.
who has won his only two battle-
in Xew York this winter. They ai-
so are hamtamweighta. ’
In Brooklyn on Thursday night
Abe Goldsltln. former champion of
the bantams and the man from
Martin won his title early
will face Tommy Ill!-
ton for rounds.
Heat-weights
12
also will have
Simssel and Quintin Romero of
Chile being St‘ht‘dlilt‘d (or twcm
rounds on “'cdneoda)‘.
JACK 860'” IS
BACKINSHAPE
Jack Scott. tobacco m of
North Carolina. has brought Joy to
i
By NORMAN Ii. BROWN.
CLEARWATEB. Fla. liar. 17,-—
How doee Xanager Wilbert Robin-
son of the Brooklyn Dodgers build;
up a great pitching stat! year after'
year?
One answer to that logical query
is:
Because he believes in the adage
that it taken a pitcher to tell a
pitcher.
fleet of the men who have‘
starred on Bohineon's team in the.
year the! hi. pitcher-e have been:
keeping the Dodgers in the Nation-
al We race up to the closing
dasa have yolaed him partly on the
recommendation. of members or
ex~tnentbers of his stall.
Take this year's crop of youngs-
tore.
Old Nat Rucker‘s fame as a
southpaw in well known to most
fans. Nap did yeoman aen‘ice tor
the Dodgers (or many years. Re
to one of the heat letthandcrs the«
game has evcr known. He knew
ball players in general and pitchers
in particular when he saw them.
Lax fall Rucher looked over a
youngster named Leo “'illiama.
The boy was pitching for Jackson.‘
.\ilas.. in the Cotton States League
It was his first league csperiencq
Vance pitched for the Brooklyn
Before that he had played aetni
pro hall around his home town of
Atlanta. Ga.
Rucker decided the lad showed
promise. lie recommended Leo to
Robin-on and the Dodger hoa- pro-
ceeded to sign up the kid. “'ill-i
lama won something like 1: games
in the Cotton circuit last seasons
l‘nofl’iciai figures gnu him 16 vie-3
toriea but this eras cut to to in‘
later average; I
He is alight in build. but he hasi
lots of slut! and knows how to use?
it. He‘s a southpaw. too. which!
may have impressed old Nap. Ith‘
cidentaliy Rucker spent some time.
coaching the lad atter he saw him?
in action—figuring that the more he.
knew about pitching when he show-i
ed up at tho Dodgera' camp the}
better chance he'd have. i
No one had heard of Schwartz:
when a bunch of barnatorming:
Brooklyn players blee- into Grez'
Fails. lonL. late last fall. He had
pitched for hia home team in thc
Cascade County League and had.
won 28 and Joel four games. He?
was ae'ectcd to pitch an exhibition:
game against the Dodgers. Dam"
crew. Schwartz turned the big
leagues-s back 2 to 1. allowing them
but live hits. '
Burisigh Grimes watched un-
yonng husky at work and imme-i
diatcly tipped of! Robinson. The?
latter promptly took Grimes“ word"
and signed Schwartz. '
0w Cantrell was dgned by Dod-I
gerenroyaaftcr he had hung up a'
record of :1 victories and men do.
tests (or the Ohm-wee teas. in the
Wm Association. Uncle Bob-
bia had other hard. relayed byi
Dassy Vance. however. that the
mmmMmdytogo.
Vance villi-ted in the West and.
mus-ballroomutheuine.l
in Developing Flingers
“It Takes a Pitcher to Tell a Pitcher”
Upon This Baseball Adage Ia Founded Robbie's Success
Brooklyn club.
L'nclo Robbie hitnsel! is one of
tho shrerdest Judge. at pitchers in
baseball. but he ‘I awake to the
fact that the men or the box. the
men serving them up day after day
or with a background of years in
the has. must know something at
the men in their own part at the
profusion.
NEW BEDF‘ORD. Ma...
”Pd-chic Young Mulligan.
tamweixht champion of
cut. lost. an unpopular decisinn m
Conn-wru-
tio of Barton last evenin: infrr
this City.
After holding his own 27. 2‘.-
out the bout Mulligan m '2- In“
round put on an extra. l:;-<. -:-_'
spec-d and tattered Catlin {rt-x"
lar to pool. The final till 2-,». :~
mm.
.‘llarchl \' - '
ham "
his ten round bout with Mike “13-;
the Kerr Dedtord ‘Eporllfig (itib “‘3
, 'TUESDAEMB'
an Loses Verdic
DECISION GIVING mm T0
MIKE CASTLE IS up u 1'
State Bantamweight Champ Makes 9
Stand in Final Round But Loses Ba "
Is Signed for Another flash in N..."
tare—Large Crowd Witnessed Scrap.
C. I K. LEAGUE.
Rangers.
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The American Legion will bring
, h w ssh limbs!
the nettle; h-‘mu- the City Fulton m 8‘: will he a throne-lug;
.-._ All i at pnrmiaalnn be Yen -. M pug
1’" them to build the mm. ‘1 h u- e e o.
. : Aaathleue tic-Metal a chic:-
rtfi. is certainly nee-GM la 8m
. hull develop a number of It.
i u h tract and field em I.
.. never take this branch up at the
.~ time. .....
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If the track In completed ear
“git. the American Legion of in:
‘Q will stage a monetar track Elect.
pl which several of the events eat
“I in local athletpa.
O O 0
Coach Green is making plans for
the High school baseball team. 3.
ha. none good material at the West
avenue institution and hop. to turn
OIt l winning nine. We are all with
hint in his etforts
”diheflm
little-tau .
the Giants at Sarasota for no pitch-
ui three excellent innincl an”
the Senators on “’cdneaday. In 1928
Scott. who had been dropped in
the Braves applied to M
John neat-av. o! the (Slant: 8'
*aomething to do. 8- III M
chance and hetero the
inaliwalhoflifqianfiwithB-‘l
FHIC. He draws more unis.
pchapgthmatsyothecm
kinAsncrica.
M upon k. the public.
m Grins h‘elpcd 1.:ch
hot-stet- convince Uncle nettle!
that nun beak of the Cardinal-'
would prove a winner em: the,
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