Show Stars Stars' Now Training Tra ning With Circus By JOE IUS Special to The Te Telegram SARASOTA Fla Fin March The 27 27 The visitor here bore is never never surprised 8 d at at what he sees or hears There I is no need nee to be unduly alarmed if a curious lo looking automobile auto automobile mobile passes with a nine foot man sitting g in the back seat m manipulating ing the steering wheel from that po po- po- po He belongs belong'S here too You see liCe this Is where the greatest greatest great great- est show on onearth earth makes Its itA wInter winter win wIn- ter quarters quarter it is u where the roar roar of ot lions and of elephants ele ele- dc- dc are commonplace and where the public publio appearance of ot giants glants midgets and be bearded ladles ladies is I aU all a part of the tho days day's routine It is also where the most expensive expert expert- lye sive baseball club ever assembled on one field the gold lined Boston Red Sox Sax does its winter training The prize exhibit among th the Red Sox of c course urse is their shortstop manager-shortstop Joe Cronin the only human slave th that t ever commanded on the hoof Step right up ladles ladies and gents and give a look There are other exhibits of vary ing Int Interest rest There is for instance Wesley rrell Ferrell the st star r gazer gaze th thI the I only pitcher in the tho American league to win 25 ball games gaines last season Mr Ferrell Ferren owes it all to the stars He subscribes to the dictates of astrology He can win only when the planetary conditions are favorable favorable favorable favor favor- able and his change h of pace is good Then there is Jimmy Foxx Fou the human bull buU who warms warms up with a cannon ball and swings a steel girder at b bat t. t There is ii a legend that this untamed monster from the Maryland hills eats fast ball pitchers pitch pitch- ers alive in the traditional Bosco minner manner but this is suspected to be bea a lurid product of the ballyhoo Those Thos who know him best say aay ay he prefers them baked And naturally ho he prefers left handed pitchers half baked In a a private cage befitting his bl unique position under the main maintop maintop maintop top is Js Lefty Grove the practical joker Mr 1 Grove in is the originator of su such h hilarious s as squeezIng squeezing ing lighted in the palm palms of ladles untying and the thel strings string of waitresses waitresses' aprons apron at soup lug Ing time The Tho life of f the party It will willbe be the death of him yet et But tit just the tho same the ball club seems seems to thrive here and if yo you tarry rry around long Jong enough you are liable to find yourself sharing the dangerous enthusiasm sm of Mr Cronin 1 but about b ut the p 1 t th i n s of his diamond studded hirelings f We finished finished- fourth our h last year didn't didn't- we says Mr Cro in We Ve were were about bout 15 games back of the leaders leader Since then we have added Foxx Rog Cramer Eric McNair Henry Manush and John Marcum Do you mean to tell teU me mo that with these additions we haven't done enough to take up the slack alack |