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camps.■ • •'by HARRY GRAYSON, Sports Editor, NBA Service.CLEARWATER. Fla., March 18.— The Dodgers are still the Dodders.Oscar (Ox) Eckhardt, 32-year-olc3 recruit obtained from the San Francisco Missions, reported with a large' police dog,“You can't use him In the outfield In the National league, remarked the Inimitable Casey Stengel.“I wish I could/* replied Oscar the Ox, who has been all this time getting to the majors because he catches baseballs in self defense. Brooklyn purchased Oscar the Ox the instant the management discovered baseballs attacked him. That makes Oscar the Ox * tme Dodger.Stengel insists that all or the Brooklyn athletes stay at the hotel here, so Oscar the Ox’s pet dog has a three-room apartment on the outside all to himself*There are no files on Oscar. He beat Joe DIMaggfo, prize Yankee peagreen, to the Pacific Coast league batting championship with a mark of .399.Fretichy Bordagarav showed up with a Ronald Colmn mustache, and threatens to let It sprout to great length. The clowning fly-chasar will be the natlonal-pastimc'sfirst mustachioed player sinceGeorge Van Haltren.• a •Crooner Wins JobJohn Aloyslus Hassett, $55,000 recruit first bsepmn, had to Introduce himself when he checked ia The only time anyone attached to the Dodgers had seen Buddy Hassett was when lie sang Mother Maohree at the New York baseball writers' dinner last month.“He's better than A1 Mamaux,” said Manager Stengel. “Wc can use a tenor like that.*' The deal with the Yankees was closed the next day.The Brooklyn club has the distinction of taking the biggest gamble of the year with Hassett, 24-year-old son of a Bronx politician xml plumbers’ union official.To meet the purchase price, the Dodgers let the dependable Sam Leslie go to the Giants for $25,000, borrowed $15,000 more and turned over Johnny McCarthy, anotherXxie clairvoyant, Casey Stengel, look* Into the Dodgers’ future at thdr Clearwater training camp. What does he see? Probably laughs for Brooklyn fans.young first sacker. and Outfielder Buzz Boyie.Signed by the Yankees - In his freshman, year at Manhattan college. Hawett refund to Jet-New York turn him Into an outfielder, which was McCarthy’s Intention, because of the presence of Lou Gahrlg at first.The Yanks sent Hassett to the St. Louis Cardinals’ Columbus farm last season. He hit .337 in 77 engagements there.. Buddy played 22 games after breaking hie ankle sliding into the plate to complete a home run Inalde of an. American association park.• aCards Wanted Hassett While the broken bones were knitting, Branch Rickey, director of the far-flung cardinal system, offered the Yanks $35,000 for Hassett, which may be something of a^tlpoff on the young man's future. *A left-handed hitter and throwerIJlUl V lr*«V -- 'and Stuffy Mclnnis, standing only 5 feet 11 and weighing 159 pounds.A high-spirited, sandy-halred chap with finely chiseled features, Hassett isn’t a bit backward.There are 13 new hired hands with the Dodgers, proving that Stengel behoves In the old saying” that a new broom sweeps clean.Stengel gave the Boston Bees A1Lopez, Tony Cuccinello, Ray Benge,Johnny BabJch. Bobby Reis. endGene Moore for Fred Frankhouse,Ed Brandt, and Randy Moore.• • »Pitching Prospects GoodBrooklyn Is likely to get considerable pitching out of the veterans Frankhouse and Brandt, and Randy Moore is a handy jack-of-all-trades.Headed by the great Van tingle Mungo, the Brooklyn staff Include*,In addition to Frankhouse an5 Bamdfc, George Earnshaw, William Watson Clark, Emil Leonard, old Tom Zachary, A1 Bucher, Wayne Osborne, the youthful Harry Eten-stot. and Tom Baker.Butcher copped 24 gHmw for Galveston in 1935. Osborne, who gets a peculiar twist on the pellet because he last the tips of his Int^ex finger and thumb during childhood, pagged 17 for the San Francisco Missions. Baker, farmed .to Allentown last season. Is coming on.Stengel explains hla catching like this;I’ve got big Gordon Fhelps, who can hit like blazes and catches only fair. I've got Ray Barren hack from Sacramento, who can catch like blades, but can’t hit. And I’ve got Walter Millies, from Chattanooga, who can do a little bit of both. Among them, I ought to make out all right.1'Brooklyn's starting infield will g« Hassett at first, Jimmy Jordan at second, Linus Frey at shortstop, and Jimmy Bucher at tbiro.Joe Stripp, who held out, will be a reservist, at the outset at least. Other Infield candidates are Vincent Sherlock, from Indianapolis; Dick Siebert, first baseman from Buffalo; -and Ben Oeraghty and Frank Skaff, a pair of Vi llano va eol leg Ians.Lindsirom In CenterBrooklyn’s starting outfield will (Turn to page 3, please)t
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