Hopefuls Flood Martins' Training Camp Here This Week
Boys Look Pretty Good But No
Definite Assignments Are To Be
Expected Just Yet, Parker Says
Man From Alabam
Isn't Doing Much
Talking Just Now
Youn# Men Are Comfortable
In Temporary Camp in
Legion Hut
"The boys are showing up good,"
Dixie Parker said today as the third
period of spring training drew to a
close at noon today, but it'll be along
about week after next before the
Martins' new skipper gets down to
the business of making definite team
assignments. Just now the ball man
from Alabam is doing a lot of look
ing, and some thinking, too. leaving
the talk to come later.
white nofbraggihg at all, Manager
Parker still maintains that the other
teams will know the Martins are in
the league before any appreciable
part of the season is spent, "it is hard
to build up a going organization in
a single year, but with the support
of the fans and a little encourage
ment from the side, I think we can
make a good showing this season,"
the skipper said.
Although the main spring training
season is not scheduled to get un
derway until next Wednesday, the
camp is being flooded by hopefuls
in the baseball world. By the mid
dle of next week, two dozen men
with an extra one to spare will be
under contract with the Martins.
Asked how many he had in camp at
the legion hut on Watts Street at the
pr6WRt time, p#rKcr sold ttint tht*
boys were filling up beds about as
fast as the manufacturers could de
liver them At first one bed was al
lotted to each man. The second night,
the boys doubled up to make room
for the additions. Last night it was
fast approaching the three-to-the-bed
limit. By next week it'll possibly take
an army barrack to care for the
boys who want to play ball.
"No, all those boys are not under
here on their own, Ridding for places
on the team and naying their awn
expenses while supporting their
bids," Manager Parker said.
Establishing camp in the legion
hut, the boys are said to be getting
along all right. President J. Eason
Lilley has spared no expense to make
the young men comfortable, and
Mrs. Mae Blount, dietitian, is ably
handling the' special dining room.
There is quite a bit of shifting and
changing going on in the camp, but
by next Wednesday, Manager Par
ser says he will have his group pret
;y well lined up for some hard vyork
>n the training field. The activities
;o date have been centered around
he pitching mound, the skipper pin
)f rookie chunkers, and righthand
ers at that. ?
"Tell them we'll be ready to go
it curtain time in Tarboro on the
25th. During the meantime, every
body is welcome to come out to the
park. I might %;k some help in pick
ng out the winners," Manager Par
ker said this morning ??
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EXHIBITIONS
Dixir Parker and his Martins
will strut their stuff officially
for the first time here Tuesday,
April 16 at 3 o'clock when they
meet the Reading, Pa. (Class B
club) in the first of a series of
exhibition games on the home
grounds. The locals will return
the ysme-Tm-Hie-HM. In Eden
ton.
On Saturday and Sunday,
April 20 and 21, the Martins will
meet the Sunbury, N. Y., club
here.
An inter-squad game is being
considered for Sunday afternoon,
April 14th.
Local Skipper Has
Quite A Record As
Hustling Receiver
Dixir Parker Is Also A Proven
Philosopher of High
Degree
The veteran Dixie Parker has been
catching pro baseball on and off
since 1918, when he started at Pet
ersburg up in the old Virginia loop.
There never has been a better hus
tler back of tin* platel and that in
cludes the fiery Red O'Malley, whom
Parker succeeds as manager of the
Williamston Martins.
Dixie can still work around 50
games a year for his. club if the oc
casion demands, and that's a testi
monial to his hustling nature, for
most veterans of his long service
would have hung up the tools long
ago.
Parker is a homespun philosopher.
He'll tell you there is no such thing
as a smart catcher.
"When a man puts on those tools
of torture," he says, "and squats
down back of the plate he admits
right then and there he's dumb as
they come. No one with average
mentality would think of being a
catcher. In all the years I've been
catching, I have envied outfielders.
During each game, when I'm toiling
back of the plate on that hard clay,.
I often think of those outfielders
with their feet in the nice, cool,
soft grass, with hardly a thing to
do and no one to second guess them
when they didn't call for a curve
instead of a fast ball."
But Dixie, after speaking face
tiously about the job, will also tell
you it holds the best future of any
in the game. The proverbial teeth
of the hen are easier to find today
than good catchers. The young re
ceiver who can handle the job is
worth his weight in gold.
The major league rosters will show
quite a few chaps who are not great
hitters, but they hold their jobs as
catchers, year in and year out, be
cause they are capable receivers.
Coastal Plain fans will like Dixie
Parker. He's a good mixer, a great
hand with kids and he's been a hus
tler for over 20 years. The boys who
make his club will have to hustle,
win, lose or draw.
Predict* Tobacco IT ill Be
Later Thi* Year Than lUiial
? 11
L. T. Weeki, extension tobacco
specialist of State College, predicts
that tobacco will be later thia year
than has been the case in the past
Twenty Players In
Martins' Training
Camp Ready To Go
Miller, Bertie Young Man, At
tract* Keen Eye of
The Skipper
?
Registrations in the Martins' train
ing camp were boosted to nineteen
late last night as Johnnie Rand,
right-hand pitcher, of Portsmouth,
reported to Dixie Parker's camp in
the American Legion hut. And the
main training season does not open
until next Wednesday. Manager
Dixie Parker stating that he was
looking for eight or ten more team
candidates about Tuesday. It is pos
sible that the camp personnel will
undergo a marked change prior to
that time, and that the main train
ing season will not find more than
25 to 28 regular candidates in camp.
Going over his list early today.
Manager Parker stated that Ted Mil
ler. Perrytown pitcher from Bertie,
looked mighty good to him. "If he
holds up as well as he shows up in
practice, he'll have a job on the
mound here this season." Parker
declared
Jimmie Mundo, succeeding Solly
Myers at Second, hit two or three
over the barn as Dixie would call the
gymnasium and two went over the
fence in practice yesterday.
Ace Villepique, who with Red j
Swain comes over from last season,
showed up well before the skipper j
yesterday.
Tucker Jones, the young man from
Albany, entered a strong bid yester
day for a job as utility man. Garland
Wilmer, who hit .320 in the Skyline
circuit last season, looks pretty good I
in the outfield. Ed Bartnick, also
from the New York capital, was im-!
sressive on the mound yesterday.
The skipper is shifting his atten
lion to other spots today and there'll
5e more reports later.
Parker briefly reviewed the ros-!
or as it stood at noon today, as fol
lows:
John Cuprik, Lamira, Ohio; rookie
litcher.
Louis Odorizzi, Flushing. Ohio;
rookie pitcher.
Michael DeLuca. Bronx, N. Y.;
ookie pitcher, who won four and lost
ive during his short stay with - the
rfartins last season.
Archie Lee Myers, Scotland Neck;
ookie pitcher.
Harry "Red" Swain, the man from
lohnstown. Pa., who is well rcmem
vork last season. The veteran won
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STAR OUTFIELDER OF CLEVELAND INDIANS
Chapman
Ben Chapman, star outfield
er of the Cleveland Indians, Am
erican League -team, will be seen
in action hy fans of this section
when the Indians play the New
York (iiants in an exhibition
Kame In Tarboro, Wednesday,
April 10.
21 and lost 9 during the playing sea
son and turned in four victor k s in
the series.
Jack Bums, Albany. N Y rookie
pitcher.
Ed Bartnick. Albany. N. Y . rookie
pitcher. I
Fred Burhtman. CincthtlBU, rookie
pitcher
Charles Munjar, Bellair, Ohio;
(Continued on page eight)
Big League Teams
ToPlav InTartaro
Tarboro ? Managers Oseer V*?,
of the Cleveland Indians, and Bill
Terry, of the New York Giants, have
released the tentative line-ups for
- the .exhibition, game in Tarboro,
Wednesday. April 10th, when the
Indians play the Giants in Bryan
Park. Tarboro
The Giant line-up carried Burgess
Whitehead, of Woodland, formerly a
Tarboro boy. W1QT number ?4. af
third base. This is coming as a sur
prise to local fans who watched .
Whitehead recover from illness at
home last year, but hoped that Whi
j n y Whitehead could make the
igrade
During tin- Giant-Cleveland game
here in Tarboro. gifts for Whitehead,
Campbell and Humphries will be
: given to the boys by their friends
and fans when they appear at the
home plate During the afternoon
fans from Macclesfield and Tarboro
, will present a gift to Johnnie Hum
phries. former Macclesfield-Tarboro
baseball player, now with Cleveland
latter a group of fans from Wil
liainston and Tarboro will present
I a gift to Clarence "Soup" Campbell,
outfielder with Tarboro and William
[sotn, now with Cleveland; and a
| group of admirers, relatives and
I friends of Lewiston and vicinity will
: present a gift to Burgess Whitehead,
| of Lewiston. playing third base for
! the Giants.
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We wish to sincerely thank our
? many loyal friends who were so
faithful during the illness and death
of our beloved husband and father
| For the hours spent at his bedside
patiently attending, and for the
j beautiful floral offering; we are ex
ceedingly grateful May the Lord
' reward them generously.
Mrs. Sarah E. Hinson & Family
I Jamesville, N. C.
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