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On the= Side LinesWith the Sports Editor BY DENMAN THOMPSONPITCHER with pink whiskers.The evidence isn't conclusive, but it looks as if Capital fans may be served their diamond doings in goulash form in the future.Without impugning the as yet undetermined box ability of the most recent addition to the Nationals' curving corps it just may be that the Washington management, after all these years, has decided to employ the gentle art of ballyhoo.Considering the quality of base ball provided lately by Cronin's crew, it might be a smart move, calculated to revive waning interest on the part ol the cash clientele.HERE not. only is plenty of precedent for such tactics: they have been proved good box odce and by a chap so rlose to local headquarters it seems logical to suspect a publicity camp algn already is under way—and aus-plciously launched, judged by the pictorial effects and lineage space allotted to the newest of the Nationals.As we recall it. Joe Engel, p r e s i dent of Washin gton's Southern Association farm at Chattanooga, first gave evidence of his ingenuity In the matter of making not only the sports sections, but the first pages as well, by selling a pitcher for a turkey to grace his Christmas dinner table.BY EASY stages. Mr. Engel then introduced singing canaries in cages draped from the rafters of his Tennessee stronghold, staged vaudeville acts on the diamond preceding games, displayed circus freaks during the intermissions between double-headers. paraded a menagerie of wild animals, or some such thing, and finally, signed a girl pitcher who earned considerable acclaim by striking out such colossal clout-ers as George Herman Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition with the Yankees.The voung lady in question was Miss Jackie Mitchell, who. oddly rhotfgfi. 4Iso did a stretch with the House of David team, which happens to be the outfit that produced the Griffmen's most recent acquisition.OF COURSE. Engel, who until this season held the distinction of being the local club's only scout, is not responsible for the presence here of Allen Wilbur Benson, who owns the whiskers previously referred to.It was another Joe. last name Cambria, who, in addition to running a prosperous laundry business in Baltimore and owning a somewhat less prosperous b^se ball business In the Albany club of the International League, now shares with Engel the duties of hunting ivory for the Senators, who brought Benson to town.Clark Griffith, who controls the now hapless hold-over champions, looks you straight in the eye and asserts he signed Benson because he is convinced the hirsutial heaver has the pitching ability to strength-nn hie rlnh
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Wed, Aug 15, 1934
Page 6
Full Page
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