3 0 THE NEW YORK SUN, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933,

Bill Shores, With Season's Strikeout Mark of 164y Believes He'll Make Grade With Giants *

Setting the Pace By JOE VILA

j Sa le of Red Sox P layers by Frazee Brought $400,000. Purchase of the Boston American League club by Thomas Yaw­

key and Eddie Collins recalls the fact that the late Harry H. Frazee, owner of the Red Sox from November 1, 1916, until he sold out to Robert Quinn and partners ten years ago, realized about $400,000 lor atar plavers, all but one of whom became members of the Yankees. Tha exception was Harry Hooper, Famous right fielder, who was turned over to the Chicago White Sox in 1922 for $25,000. Fraaee's first deal with Col. Ruppert was registered in 1918, when ha received about $20,000 and plavers.for the releases of Pitcher Ernie Shore and Left Fielder Duffy Lewis. In July, 1919, he sold Pitcher Carl Mays to the New York club for $55,000. a move that almost wrecked th» American League and dragged baseball into the courts.

In was in January, 1920, that Frazee shocked Boston fans by selling Babe Ruth to Col. Ruppert for $135,000, the biggest deal of ita kind in the history of major league ball. Also in 1920 the Yankees banded over $25,000 and players to the Boston magnate for Pitcher Walte Hoyt and Infielder Mike McNally.

In 1922 Frazee got $75,000 in deals that turned over Pitchers Joe Buah and Sam Jones, Catcher Wally Schang and Shortstop Everett Bcott to the late Miller Huggins.

In 1922, when he was preparing to get out of baseball, Frazee sent Third Baseman Joe Dugan, Outfielder Elmer Smith and Southpaw Herb Pennock to the Yankees for a total of about $60,000, it was said. So all told, the Red Sox were hopelessly wrecked by Frazee, who had paid $600,000 for the club in the fall of 1916 to the late Joseph J. Lannin.

It was early in 1913 that Mr. Lannin became sole owner of the Red Sox on payment of about $700,000. He was induced to make that Investment by his friend, the late James E. Gaffney, then owner of the Boston Braves. A fine sportsman and generous employer, Mr. Lannin was rewarded when the Red Sox, led by Bill Carrigan, won world championships in 1915 and 1916.

During the 1916 campaign Mr. Lannin clashed with the late Byron Bancroft Johnson, then president of the American League. He openly accused one or more umpires with deliberately trying to handicap the Boston team. President Johnson retorted with aome severe criticism and charged the Boston owner with disloyalty and insubordination. For that reason, coupled with the fact that he was in poor health, Mr. Lannin sold the club to Frazee without obtaining the consent of Johnson, in accordance with league rules.

From the outset Johnson was bitterly opposed to Frazee and fre­quently scored him for adopting "unbusinesslike methods." This enmity undoubtedly caused Frazee to square accounts with Johnson by smashing the league's interests in the Hub.

Maya's Case W e a k e n e d Johnson's Authority. Carl Mays, who had pitched great ball for the Red Sox, sud­

denly deserted the team in the summer of 1919, and Johnson promptly suspended him indefinitely. In spite of that move, Mays was sold to the Yankees and signed a contract. Johnson ordered the New York Club to refrain from using Mays in a championship game until his suspension had been lifted, whereupon the head of the American League was restrained by a Supreme Court justice here from enforc­ing the rules. So Mays proceeded to pitch for the Yankees and John­son's authority was weakened to such an extent that a feud was started that brought about his resignation in 1927.

Frazee was one of the ringleaders in the crusade against Johnson In his own league, which resulted in the election of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as High Commissioner of Baseball, clothed with ab-aolute power to direct the fortunes of the rival major circuits. The wrecking if the Red Sox was a bodv Wow for Johnson, who had i advantage is third base. Owen Is a founded the club in 1901 and had established the American League as a big moneymaker in Modern Athens.

The invasion of Boston, where the National League had enjoyed a great monopoly for more than a quarter of a century, was one of Johnson's outstanding achievements.

N e w Boston Owners Not Seeking Ruth a s Manager. Babe Ruth has announced that he does not want to manage the

Red Sox. He prefers to remain with the Yankees until he no longer Is able to swing his big bat. The new Boston owners are not seeking Ruth's services as leader of their team for several good reasons. In the first place, Ruth probably would demand at least $50,000 in salary, which Messrs. Yawkey and Collins hardly would be willing to pay. The Bambino also would Insist on having his own way in handling the players and obtaining new material. In that event, he would clash With Collins who, as general manager, will arrange all deals.

In order to produce a contender in the American League, the new Boston owners, who already have laid more than $1,000,000 on the line for the franchise, will have to spend something like $250,000 for ready-made stars, if they desire to get quick results on the field. To secure first-class players, however, will be difficult because the rich clubs in the American League also want to win pennants and consequently are not eager to part with their stars.

So the task of rebuilding the Red Sox will take time as well as money, and Collins, backed by Yawkey, will have the last say. I t is understood that Collins next year will become the active man­ager of the team.

DETROIT BANKS ONFOXTOPLAY

Recruit Booked for Center Field by Tigers Next

Season.

Dodger Doings. I s ill lurk attll camping on De l

Bissonette 's trail? Maybe, for in yesterday's practice drill he w a s the first player to be struck by a pitched ball and it hi t h im where he can least afford a wal­l o p - o n his left leg. Rosy Ryan w a s pitching when Bissonette w a s struck. Rosy threw a slow curve and the ball broke low. Del pulled his right leg out of the w a y of the ball, but didn't get h i s left out of danger. The ball hi t Del just above the ankle and after shaking off the ef­f ec t s of the blow he continued his t ime at bat and then went into the clubhouse for treat­ment . Fortunately, Bissonette escaped serious injury. Bob Shawkey watched Del a s he w e n t through the workout and said he appeared to be physically fit for baseball.

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By SAM MURPHY ( T h e Old Scout )

American League clubs are not go­ing in so strong for rookies this year, but President Navin thinks that rookies -will be the means of putting his Tigers in the first division. He was discussing the new players jus* before the team started for the train­ing camp the other day.

An old campaigner, Navin refused to go down too strong on a rookie, but he did say that he thought that Ervin Fox, the new outfield prospect, i s the best young outfielder the De­troit club has picked up In years.

It is the belief of Navin and Man­ager Harris that Fox will play cen­ter field next season.

Navln's report from his scouts show that Fox was the best all-around out­fielder in the Texas League. He is fast and pegs like one of the greats. For three years he has been groom­ing in the minors and in that time has batted better than .300. Pay or night he has clouted the ball, winding up at Beaumont with a .350 average

If Fox is moved to center field j Stone will stay In left and Gerald Walker will stay in right. Harris and , Navin were silent on Owen and j Greenberg, the heavy hitting young­sters from the minors. The one spot where Greenberg could he used to |

Navin said that Manager Harris i1- | going to do some sacrificing in the fielding line for heavy hitters."

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN GOLF. By Feg Murray. S l t O r e s ' S 1 9 3 2 C o m e b a c k

Giants' Purchase From Portland Crowded Hard Luck of a Lifetime Into '31 Season.

By WILL WEDGE. LOS ANGELES, March 2 - T h e i n - , f

WON THE U.6. AMKTEUR T1TCE IN 1919 AMD FAILED TO QUALIFY INI'SO, 3UANDi/2>2*

Looking In on the Yankees A Glimpse of the St. Petersburg Clubhouse

as the Battery Men Assemble.

By FRANK GRAHAM.

DoHon Chases Pnpnpa* With what many consider the best

pitching staff in the league ready to ' swing the Senators into the pennant I fight Washington is n little at sea i about the catching department. Luke \ Sewell. former member of the Cleve- I land team. Is not counted upon to j win the first-string Job. That big j spot was held for Cliff Bolton, the j young backstop who is coming up to i try his big mitt behind the bat for the Senators.

First thing the coaches did to the young catcher was to try him out on foul flies. That w a s Bolton's weak spot as it was Mickey Cochrane's when he first broke in behind the bat. Bolton never will be a Cochrane when it comes to handling pitchers but he can work well enough behind the bat to handle half of the games. His batting will be the big feature.

Bolton did not Impress the Wash­ington board of strategy that he had Improved much in his handling of foul files. The veteran Luke Sewell put him through a long drill.

Manager Cronln counted 100 pop ups that Nick AHrock hit for Bolton and expressed himself as satisfied that Bolton would start the season as first-string catcher.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 2. —The Yankees, champions of the world, are gathering for another sea­son. The pitchers and catchers have been ordered to report. It is the morning of the day the training sea­son begins. The clubhouse, under a cluster of palm trees at the edge bf Huggins Field, is a busy spot once more. Standing about, gaping a t the players as they arrive, singly, in pairs or in groups, are a number of winter visitors to this pleasant town. The <loor opens. The onlookers catch a glimpse of the interior—and the door closes again. Would you, more favored than those who stand out­side, enter? Come along then.

At the door stands Jimmy, the amiable clubhouse boy, an adept at

Logan, clubhouse major domo at both the Stadium and the Polo Grounds during the regu'ar season, who al­ways accompanies the Yankees on their training trips. Logan, with his Yankee cap and shirt and short black pipe, is a taciturn chap but he nods and gr'.ns in greeting to the accred­ited visitor. Look about, the room. That big fellow over there is Don Brennan. The bigger fellow next to him is Walter Brown. The ta l l wide-shouldered, bronzed fellow is George Plpgras. George makes his home here and has been fishing all winter. Brownie is talking about the craw­fish in New Orleans and the drive over with Doc Tainter, the trainer. Plpgras is expounding the virtues of St, Petersburg ns a winter resort. That tall fellow who hasn't yet re­moved his soft hat and top coat is

turning away pests but cordial to Ed Wells, who Is discoursing on the

f • A Giant Gossip.

Jim Tlerney has invited Art Jar-rett, handsome radio singer, to be the guest of the club on the trip to Catalina Island for the Saturday and Sunday g a m e s . . . With Charley (My Boy) Grimm of the Cubs, and Terry and Southworth of the Giants, Jar-rett should round out a quartet that should make the sea lions roll over and behave. . . All the Giants are staying at the club's headquarters at the swanky L. A. Biltmore wi th the exception of Catcher Harry Danning, a na­tive son, and Pitchers Fitzsim-mons, Bell, Parmelee and Salve-son. . .Parmelee Is one of the few wi th a wife in town, and the Missus is a regular at the Wrig-ley Field practice, being allowed in the park by a special dispen­sation of the management .

teresting thing about Bill Shores, h u s k y - n e w member of the Giants' pitching staff, is the remarkable re­vival he had last summer after he had about all the misfortunes im­aginable the year previous. In the spring of 1931, at the Athletics' train­ing camp, Shores was anticipated to be one of Connie Mack's good bets, for he had won twelve and dropped but five for the Elephants the year before. But things started happening to the big Texan.

Addicted to ingrowing toe nails, he sorrowed at the sight of his right big toe becoming infected as the Mack-man began spring training. Then his left big toe became infected and it w a s no joking matter. In fact it just about blighted his spring in Florida. Coming North he got a cold and was delayed "tome more. He no sooner got back into uniform than he was hit in the groin during prac­tice by a ball smacked by Cramer. That meant two more weeks on the shelf. His next affliction was an attack of intestinal flu. Despairing of getting any service out of him that year Connie freighted Shores out to Portland.

Hard luck continued to dog Shores in Portland in the summer of 1931. His digestion went back on him and he finally came down with stomach ulcers and spent the last three weeks of the season in the hospital.

''I had everything at once in that bad year of *3L" says Shores, "but after that the skies cleared and I was able to pitch as often as the next fellow in '32 and we won the Coast League pennant, and from the way I feel now there's no reason I shouldn't do a lot of work and maybe help the Giants considerably. I kept in good shape during the off season hunting quail and shooting ducks down around my home in Lawn, Tex., and I weigh 192 and only want to take off five or six pounds." Shores, by the way, is only ex­ceeded in pitching poundage on the Giants by Parmelee and Fitzslm-mons.

F a n n e d 1 6 4 Bat ters . Shores's work with Portland last

summer was really remarkable. H e was Spencer Abbott's leading pitcher and he won nineteen games and lost eleven, and in eighteen of his vic­tories he started and finished, and this coupled with his relief work (he was in a total of thirty-seven games) was the main factor in Portland win­ning its first flag in eighteen years and outdrawing the rest of the league, including the far more popu­lous Los Angeles.

Though he says he Is not a strike

With the Yankees. These are pleasant £ayi for

the Yankee pitchers. They ar« privileged to take their turns at the plate in batting practice . . . During a regular baseball season the only time a pitcher is allowed to approach the plate in batt ing practice is on the day w h e n he is slated to Bitch, anil even then there are those among the players who think they merely are wast ing time. Their own and every one else's! . . . But a t Huggins Field, St! Petersburg, today the pitchers a r e stepping up there and smack ing the ball around . . . Or mis s ing it by a foot or so. . . , W i t h no carping infielders and outfielders to give off raucous noises .

DODGERS HAVE BIG PITCHERS

Ray Bcnge Only Member of Staff Who Isn't

a Six-Footer. By EDWARD T. MURPHY.

MIAMI, Fla , March 2 - B o b Shnw-key, former Yankee pitcher and man­ager, is one of the daily spectators at the Dodgers' workouts at Miami Field. Bob isn't here on a baseball mission. He's Just drifting through the major league camps in this part of the country, killing time until he opens his own training quarters. The former Yankee pilot caught on •< manager of the Scranton team of the New York-Pennsylvania League last season and is back with the club again this year. Watching yester­day's practice drill didn't provide Shawkey with any excitement, for it was just a routine session de­voted mainly to batting, in which six or seven pitchers took turns oa the mound.

There were no thrills for Bob, hut he s a w many bosky pitchers toiling In the big park. For years the Dodgers have gone in tor bulky pitchers, and from the size of the newcomers in this spring's crop it is evident that Manager Max Carey is ns strong for big fellows as ws«

out pitcher. Shores fanned 1*4 bat- his predecessor. Walter Beck, Rosy

Knrnahaw Serious . Three members of the Athletics'

pttching staff who have ahility

When Home Run Baker Offered Foxx to the Yanks. Jimmy Foxx, slugging first baseman of the Athletics, who knocked

out fifty-eight home runs last year, was discovered by Home Run Baker. Back in 1924, after Foxx had distinguished himself as a hitter with the Easton team of the Eastern Shore League, the manager of that team. Baker, vainly tried to sell him to the Yankees. Miller Hug- j enough to lead the team through to gins, who had turned out a world championship team the previous J ^ " * "J,* * ^ ? * J S t ^ S l E L i f ^ S year, opposed Baker's proposition, and the latter then visited Connie "*"'" ' " """'* Mack at Shibe Park.

"I have a youngster who some day will be the rival of Babe Ruth as a home run hitter," said Baker.

"Who Is he?" asked Mack. "His name is Jimmy Foxx, and I want you to sign him." "Is he a better home run hitter than you were?" "No doubt about it." "All right," said the venerable manager, "I'll give him a trial." Foxx signed a contract for $2,500 and Baker received a bonus

for the tip. Think of Foxx and Ruth on the same team!

yon. You step at once into the locker room. Three of the four walls are lined with lockers, or, rather, built-in spaces where the players hang their clothes. In each space hang two uniforms, white and gray. Over each space is the player's name and number. Ranged in front of the spaces are long plank benches on which the players sit as they dress or undress. Down the center of the room are trunks, bat racks and boxes filled with sand, repositories for cig­arettes and cigar butts, pipe ashes and matches.

Just inside the door sits Fred

difficulties of finding an apartment here this spring. Cy Perkins, in golf clothes and wearing a white cap, sits on the narrow bench, his knees hunched up under him, talking with Paul Krlchell and Arndt Jorgens,

The Surg ica l Room. On your right as you enter Is Doc

Painter's room. In the center of the room is a rubbing table and next to it a trunk into which have been fitted boxes for holding the valuables of the players. Around the room are cahinets contslning the surgical equipment which is part of the traln-

Lou Gehrig Out to Beat Scott's Record. If Lou Gehrig, the Yankees' Iron Man, plays 111 consecutive

[ games beginning April 12, he will surpass the world record held by Everett Scott, which Is 1,307 successive championship contests.

President Harridge of the American League has ruled that a game on August 1, 1932, between the Yankees and Detroit Tigers, which

j was ordered replayed, will count in Gehrig's record. Columbia Lou, therefore, has taken part in 1,197 consecutive games since he began

: to cover first base for the Yanks regularly in 1925. Scott began to run up his record totals when he played with

I the Red Sox and continued to carry on until the Yankees released | him to make room for Mark Koenig In 1926.

Gehrig will be 30 years old June 19. He Is six feet one Inch 1 tall and weighs 200 pounds. Considering his avoirdupois, he is re-' markanly fast aa a fielder and base runner and, barring his first regu-i lar season with the Yanks, when he hit .295, he has ranked among the

greatest batsmen in the majors. Excepting home runs, he has sur­passed Babe Ruth in batting totals for the last eight years. He has not yet signed a contract, but soon will put on a uniform at St. Peters-

I burg, confident that his differences with Col. Ruppert will be amicably ( adjusted.

Staler Picks Yanks and Pirates to Win Pennants. George Staler, once champion batsman of the American League,

when he played first base for the St. Louis Browns, has spent the winter in the Mound City vainly waiting for an offer to serve as coach from one of the big league teams. Stsler was asked the other day what he thought of the coming pennant races.

"The Yankees will repeat right over again," he said, "and the Pirates ought to fin'sh first in the National League. I do not think Connie Mack will make much of a showing with the A's because four of his regulars.--Finney, Cramer, Coleman and Hlgglns,—lack the I ""hows the hoys necessary experience. Washington apparently has been strengthened '*Jl^er.-* ,l0«™ in the pitching department, also In batting. Cleveland, if Wesley Ferrell is in shape to pitch in his best form at the beginning of the race, may finish third.

"The Pirates are powerful In batting, have a splendid Infield and good pitchers. They should have the edge if they get the breaks. The other teams, excepting Cincinnati, soeni to be evently matched. On lorm 1 would rate the Cubs, Brooklyns, Giants, Phillies, Cardinals, Boston and Cincinnati in the onlcr named. Psreball , coming bock rvrmittftTni a hall game', lie s-thlt year with the boom. T*e prtJUe, TVNftTy of the depression, seeks starting off the training ses«on with healthful outdoor recreation, and basebaU, with Us comparatively i f h U np*v>' hlcfcorj helps him. •mr •rir*is«<nn rate* will com* fleet '» r * I B y the time the opening game of

Myers, Fla., the most serious group that ever faced a warm-up catcher. Lefty Grove, one of the game's great left-handers, has little to do, but he Is more than anxious to set himself right for the flag. Grove said he felt fit and ready. He declares he would not concede the flag to the Yankees until the last bell rings.

"It seems to me the Athletics have been strengthened. We have some fast, heavy hitting youngsters who may not be as steady as old-timers, but they are apt to get out In front and never be"headed. Young players never concede anything. 1 expect to do as well as last season, If not bet­ter."

The second member of the trio Is George Earnshaw There was a lot of talk during the winter about hi g George balking at his contract, hut when Interviewed on the playing field he said that he expected to have a winning year. He denied that he ever said anything about the A's be­ing out of the race, asserting he was too long in the game to concede any one anything.

"I'll say this now," said the big right-hander, "1 am going to throw everything T have 1n this year's race. The A's ought, to he up In the fight and I am down here to get In mid-season condition. It. is the first time I have been South with the team since 1930. having done my early work In Hot Springs, but I think the workouts here will help me a lot. At any rate I am going to show the fans I am fit when I scale the pitching mound. T'have accepted the salary offered me and I am satisfied."

Walberg, the second left-hander of the curving corps, said he would win more games than he did last season.

R e m a n Has Weary Mat. Chicago word painters are filling

their baseball columns with reams about Babe Herman, who is being polished up to take the place of Hack Wilson among the fans of the Windy City. Herman falls right in line with the lineage blasters. He

how he does It and a story.

This year Herman Is making some tremendous drives out of the ball field at Catalina Island. His long hits have fhrllled the players who cannot understand how the big fel­low gets such power, hut Babe is not a bit secretive ahout It. He frankly says that the explanation of his long drives lies in the fact . thst he is using a heavier hat than would be

Rookies Not So Numerous Scarcity of Baseball Fledglings, Especially

in Athletics* Camp, Is Noticeable. FORT MYERS, Fla., March 8 (A.

P.).—Compared to other years, rookie material at the Philadelphia Ath­letics' spring training camp la scarce, indeed.

In previous training sessions, Con­nie Mack has had almost lorty men, with fledglings fighting for a place In every department.

This year, none of the five outfield­ers are in the rookie class, while only two of the seven infielders, and one of three catchers are relegated to the fledgling division.

The hurling section, as usual, car­ries the largest number of newcom­ers, four being in the apprentice class, while four others have had previous experience with the A's.

BILOXI, Miss -Manager Joe Cro­nln of the Washington Senators doesn't want any lost motion, such as a catcher planting himself with a step backward before pegging the ball.

So Cliff Bolton was given a bit of instructions on how to step up a stride, and let the ball fly for the bag.

It's all part of the "scientific base­ball" the new mentor announced as part of the training curriculum.

Third Baseman Cecil Travis was the latest arrival in camp. He like­wise got a little of that scientific In­struction.

_.. , t , PASADENA, Cal.-Tnsteed of walt-2 ? • • 2 Z 2 t £ S t t J t y S r n , ' n CVAVl , n * u n t " M a ™ » " to report to the •ent through two brisk drill sessions ,-hicago Wh.te BOX, Al Simmons went

yesterday after a pep talk by the veteran manager. Only Merritt (Sugar) Cain is absent, but his ar­rival is expected with every train.

WINTER HAVEN, Fla . -Manager Burt Shotton had a complete list or battery men on hand today for the first session of the Phillies' spring iralnlng. camp, Jumbo Jim Elliott, big south­paw hurler, arrived by car last night. With him was Les Mallon, who de­clared he la determined to give Mickey Finn, the Phils* new in­fielder, a fight for the second-base position on the 1633 team.

Three of the pitchers—John Berlv, Flint Rhem and Ed Holley—stlll a ie unsigned. President Gerry Nugent says, however, he has no worry on

probably will Join his new mates by the end of this week.

Owner Lou Cominsky has become so eager to see Simmons working in a Sox uniform that he called him last night and urged him to report as quickly as possible. The former Ath­letics slugger said he needed a couple of days for treatment of his teeth, but would have his five replacements* Installed in California instead of re­maining at Hot Springs, Ark., for the Job.

AVALON, Cal—Satlsfled that the recently arrived members of the sre-ond squad can stand the work, Mana-ger Charley Grimm had intracluh games scheduled for the Chicago Cubs today and tomorrow in prep-

er'a stock In trade, plus bottles of drinking water. Opening off this room is the combination office and dressing room of Joe McCarthy, Ar­thur Fletcher and Jimmy Burke. This contains lockers and an Iron bed. Fletcher, Burke and McCarthy are dressing. Johnny Allen lounges in the doorway. As you enter Lyn Lary is at your heels. Lyn doesn't have to report today but has come around to greet McCarthy and the players. Allen, who has nought a home here during the winter, is boosting St. Petersburg.

"Aw," comes an unidentified voice from the outer room, "you're as bad as Plpgras. Pipe down."

"But I'm telling you," Allen says, "this is a great spot. A fellow's a sucker to stay up North In the win­ter. And lemme tell you something else: You don't see much sign of the depression here, either."

"That's more than I can say for St. Louis," says Fletcher. "When Burke and I went down to the Union Station to get the train I thought we'd gone to the wrong place. Ex­cept for a couple of porters, we were the only ones in sight."

"Tell me," you sny to McCsrthy, "tell me all about the Yankees."

"I haven't seem 'em since you have," he says with a grin. "That was In the last game of the world series. Thev looked pretty good then, didn't they?"

The Old Bus Hide . The bus from the Don Ce Sar Ho­

tel, where the Yankees are quartered, draws up nt ihe door and the players who arrived from New York yester­day alight-Charlie Devens, Russell Van Atta, Joe Glenn, Jimmy De-shong, Marvin Duke, Pete Jablonow-skl—enter. Devens, who has lost the shyness that marked him when he reported to the Yankees last June, goes about grinning and shaking hands. The others are quiet, as befits youngsters in distinguished company. Dannie Macfayden, who has been here since November, arrives, shakes hands, inquires about the weather up North and begins to change his golf clothes for his baseball uniform.

There is no talk of baseball, save In the quarters of McCarthy and his lieutenants, where Burke Is deploring the pessimism of the fans in St. Louis. Fletcher, taking a box of balls from a rack, says:

"We'd hetter use up these National League hails first, joe."

"What!" you say. "Did you get awav with the Cubs' baseballs, too?"

"No," says Fletcher, "but that last day out there I guess we could have irot away with their grand stand, at thst ."

"No/* says McCarthy, always the

trra last summer, whiffing fifteen in one night game against Seattle, a two-hit effort, with both the hits made off him in the first round, and after that not a single Seattle batter reaching first base. That was not Shores's first two-hit game, as in '30, with the A's. he blanked the Red Sox with a mere two blngles.

Shores knows Coast League batters and American League batters, but National Leaguers are new to him, though he Isn't worried about that. Asked about how he used to like to pitch to Ruth, Bill said: "Well, the Babe, of course, got hits off me jus: as he does off all pitchers, but I was never much scared of him. I figured a pitcher has a percentage over the batters, for none of them hit .500 except In short streaks, of course. Every pitcher has his 'cousins,* and the hardest fellow I ever pitched to was George Watklns, when he was with Houston and I was in the Texas League.

"Seemed like Watklns could go up at midnight snd get a hit off me. I reckon I'll be bumping into him when we play the Cardinals, and we'll see, but I know more about pitching than I did when I formerly faced Watklns. I have confidence In mvself. All pitchers. If they are worth their salt, should he that way. and I can stand a lot of work and I think with the seven yesrs' profes­sional experience I now have behind meloujtht. to make a go of it in my new trial In fast company."

A Costly Pnrehase . The Giants dug into their pockets

rather heavily for Shores, and there-

Rvan. Thornton Scnwenk. Rav Lata and Van Der Meer, all newcumeri in the squad, are six-footers with plenty of poundage. Beck, Lucs« and Scnwenk each tower six feet two inches and their weights SBJ from 175 pounds, which is Van Der Meer's, to Beck's 208. Ryan t» only a few pounds lighter than Berk and Schwenk reports he weighs W pounds and that he reached his twen­tieth birthday last Tuesday. Luoi is a 177-pounder.

The only pitcher Carey has who isn't at least six feet tall is Riy Benge, who last winter was obtained from the Phillies. Benge. the midget of the staff, is five feet ten lnehei tall. Incidentally, be is the only moundsman missing from camp Carey suspects that he's motering here from his home in Huntsvi'le, Tex., and isn't breaking any speed regulations.

S c h w e n k S h o r n Speed. Schwenk Is now showing as much

speed in the practice drills as Ryan and Phelps, who went through s couple of weeks' training before the camp was officially opened. When yesterday's session was over. Osch Casey Stengel edged over to Schwenk In the dressing quarters and gently reminded him that he shouldn't cut loose with his arm so early.

"You know," said, Casey, "you've been throwing a ball only three days, so take it easv for a spei. It's all right for Ryan and Thelpi to zip the ball up to the plate, be­cause they've been throwing longef than you have."

"I don't think they have." replW Schwenk.

"You don't mean to tell me ymi'l fore Terry wants to get the rnos' i h e e n working out secretly," retortrt out of him. Shores was obtainel , t h ( , g u r p r i R e d C O Brh. from Portland for cash and Sam j "I've been in training ever stnd Gihson. and Sam's purchase a year j Christmas," said the rookie. "1 W before from Frisco cost the Giants o n m y dad's farm in Three Oski plenty, and it was money thrown I Mich.,* and most every day I warmM away, for Gihson was one of the 1932 disappointments. So it Is up to Shores to Justify his own purchase and also make up to some extent for the cluh's loss in the Gibson invest­ment

up in the barn with the fellow who was my battery mate at high school j The outside temperature wa s below | freezing, but in the barn It was wsrm and I went through good workout* I tried to improve my con'rot sn4

That's a heavy responsibility, b u t ' s i n c e I've started training here I've I Shores Is a heavy man, and seems > noticed I can pitch to spots hetter I

than I did last year "There's an ambitious left-hsnWl

for you, boys." chortled Caatey "Tt» only difference between Rube W«d-| dell and Schwenk is that SchwenK has sense. Mr. Schwenk. now that I know you've been working out sm'« I Christmas, you can turn yourwi-

to have that easy-going, practical, unimaginative temperament that Is known as a good hnseball disposition. He neither smokes nor drinks; base­ball is his life and he chose it volun-tarilv agMnst the wishes of his father, who wanted him to be a blacksmith.

That's what the elder Shores is, I loose again tomorrow and the ne« and If Bill earlv in life hadn't de - ( day, and when regulars show up.* veloped such expertness slinging batting practice don't be afraid • baseballs he might today be helping the old man shoe polo ponies down at Abilene, Tex., which Is the burg where Bill wae born twenty-eight years ago.

that score, because "the mere fact i *&****** **• Invasions of the New thnt they came to camp would indt- i > o r k ° 1 a n , ! ' Saturday and Sunday. cute they are very anxious to ge t ; ( i r l m m nft(1 figured on letting the

I Start**, and we 'will undoubtedly "Ppn1"K fames of the exhibition se.i-i reach an amicable agreement When i t , o n *"rxo a s , h 0 f i r s t tests, hut found

we get together." his men in such good condition that N decided to let them fight among themselves a couple of times before tackling the Oianta.

TASO ROBI.KS,"L Cal.-Tn good physical condition members of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball risk

Kecfeatt, who believes in mnlcng I WW* °"' bere today in their second haste slowlv. wants plen* / of warm | practice period, sunlight on the Job when he orders | Manager Gibson, pleased with the his pitchers to open up.

The coldest weather in a month : nounced he expects to start a schnd-gieeted the arrival of the Braves' : ulo of games between rookies and special train yesterday. McKtchnie regulars this week end. and most of the battery men. how- , Jim Crandnll, son of Otis Crand.ill,

ST. PETERSBURG, F la . -Unless the cold wave comes to a N M I H end, the Boston Braves' battery men today appeared assured of another light workout on their second trip to Waterfront Park. Manager Bill M

Served With A'a. In 1927 Shores was with the A's

and farmed to Waco and recalled and sent to Baltimore In '2*. But he didn't get along with Jack Dunn and he went hack to the A's and w s s routed out to Wichita Falls again. In '29 he was with the A'a all the year, doing a lot of relief pitching and fin­ishing with a record of 11 won and 6 lost. He bettered that mark In '30 with the A's, winning 12 snd losing r». only to run Into myriad vexations in 1031. as described previously.

Shores la the biggest of the "S" . , , brigade of the staff, meaning the

realist. "We bought these to use Jr. , h , f d n z „ n „ ( .m , r ; , w f c 8 § a n R m , , fy batting practice before the Cubs , t n „ t r n t ' r v o f f h „ alphabet. Of home games."

By this time the squad Is arrayed in uniform and waiting for a word from McCarthy. Joe, coming out of h'.s room, looks them over.

"All right." he says. "Let's get going. '

this brigade Shores is the "solldest," the most phlegmatic, and possibly the most durable. Schumacher is the most brilliant in youthful equipment; Stnrr, the cockiest, most aggressive, With possibilities of being built tip for "color"; Smith la interesting be-The door Is flung back and the , r a u ( , p h r . g ' a , p f , v ar ) f l t h o c.iants

players file through, It la a shor; step from the clubhouse to the field and In a few minutes the workout Is under way.

Doc Gautreau Reen^a»fed. M02VTREAI* March 8 <A. P.l

early season form of his players, an- [Walter P. (Doc) Gautr-au again will pilot, the Montreal Royals through the 1933 International League base-hall campaign, Gantrean, who be­ams playlng-msnager late last sea-

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th" season arrives he switches to a

iigbter be* ^*mmmammmm >

e\ IT. have beer, here for some time, star of former years, has been show- I c«n. when ill health forced Rddie Frank (Shanty) Hogan having had j mg up well on tho mound. He Is iToUey out. sirne.i his contract jrrs-t ine to torment his 232-pound carcass from the Johnstown. Pa., Athletic terJay. The Hovel* go Into training wlta ***•¥**• -case ifit sunburn. Club In .the Mid-Atlantic League, at Orlando, I la . on Marsh 12.

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haven't'many lefties this year. Starr was not In uniform yesterday.

He was resting a. twisted muscle In his leg a minor casualty, but one of tho first in camp. Otherwise all members of the club were present, Oft anil Critr. and other late arrivals checking In and going through the double session of drills that will be in force from now on. In the after­noon's Intracluh game the regulars J hnnder had his sinker ball work!"* teamed up as they will start In the to perfection and the batters didn

wick-end exhibitions Terry. Critr. I hit the pellet solidly. j .l.iekson, Vergez on the Infield; Ott, I Babe has picked up a lot of w ' 1 ' " i>avis and Joe Moore in the garden, since the end of Isat season, f-1 *"' aud Mancyjo and Richards catching, he's a bit JSP bjf. tor be weighs **»

show 'em what you've got Sol* day you are going to be a good left-handed pitcher."

"I hope so," responded the retfjfl Here Stengel drew the attention I

of thoae who were listening 18 tMj else of Sehwenk's hands. The re­cruit willingly put up his hands for inspection.

"Look at 'em." declared Csi«!-| "Only half a else smaller than 0'\ nera's."

It was a slight exaggeration o«| Mangel's part, but Schwenk J*l easily hide a baseball ernnpsnW| from view in his large left hmd,

Olaenverrd h r Carer. Schwenk is a product of Ihe I j j

lots and was picked up by Care; !«•*• summer when the Dodger" wen making their second Western trio. Max toted the pitcher Into St. MJ[ and It was the first time the its*", ever was in a big city. Carey k<>p his find with the team for «c\ersi days and gave him the job of nitrfr ing to batters. For a grttBhors • did very well

When the Brooklyns start '.'n'"1* exhibition games with Other ''"""J Schwenk is going to he one of , n l

first pitchers Carev will call on. Babe Phelps is' giving nninoken

the Impression that he ha* r<"'sP-hired his sinker ball itllverv, tlti pitch which made him effect!** three years ago. In 1931 and « , t D

last season Babe, for s"r • terloue reason, couldn't tl r effective delivery, and as his pitching was a disapj In yesterdfiy'a session the hiU

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