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Show NEW MANAGER OF BRAVES OLD HAND Gained Big Success as Coach at Boston College. Although to the current generation of husehutl funs Juck Sluttery may he looked upon as a newcomer from the college rutiks, the new manager of the llostnn Braves, who recently quit his post us couch at Huston college to take up the task of giving the Hub a ennant contender, actually hus hud a long, and varied career In baseball. For more than a quarter o a-ce"; tury Sluttery hus been associated with college and 'professional baseball In almost every conceivable capacity, and because of thts la believed to have acquired the groundwork for a successful , manager. , ' When, he abandoned professional biiselnl(, Sluttery turned to couching college tennis. . He begun at Tufts and developed one of the best nines that Institution ever hud. He repented repent-ed this record at Harvard and three yeurs ago went to ' Iloston college. During his association with the colleges col-leges he developed1 a number of players play-ers who -later found their way Into professions baseball. ; , . Despite his college coaching activities, ac-tivities, Slutterj cnntlnued to keep In touch with ni nj'r league 'baseball by acting us scout for the Braves at the closp.of Bach college season and there. by flirt bet equipped himself with an all-around knowledge of. the . game, jluny -baseball men, believe SluUtyf possesses every; requisite for" a snc cessful manager and with his appointment appoint-ment ns pilot of the team In his native na-tive city us an added , Incentive,; fhe opinion prevails that with an even break In luck Sluttery will turn In a, good record. "-'' |