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Show ! MANAGER HUGGINS DOES NOT REALIZE j WORTH OF POPULARITY AND PUBLICITY r . 1st - ' . v L m t- - Jf 1 J pw Kui inaiTJhiw.jj- Ai,.rii .hH..AwJ,--iliT)iv-if.-ill iiMtfmnaiTvr lifcwarffMrr ni- mri turn Hard-Working Leader of New York Yankees. There is no keener student in baseball than Miller Huggins, manager of the New York American league team. He constantly is thinking out plays, and tries to implant his ideas on the men he commands. He is a clever judge of pitchers, and though he always played the infield, he can teach a young pitcher more than the average retired star moundsman. Not Popular With Fans. Despite his success here, it nevertheless is true that Huggins has not won a great deal of popularity in New York, complains a New York critic. He has won many acknowledgments of his ability, but the fans do not feel for him like they do for McGraw or like they did for some of his numerous predecessors, predeces-sors, particularly Clark Griffith and Bill Donovan. Huggins largely is to blame for the fact that he has not won more popularity popu-larity in New York. He discounts both popularity and publicity. Despite the fact that he is one of the smartest men that ever trod on a ball field, and is a lawyer in the bargain, he does not seem to realize what assets popularity and publicity can be to a successful manager. Lets Huston Do Mixing. He is willing to let the congenial "Cap" Huston do all the mixing for the club. There perhaps never was a club in which there was greater intimacy between the owners and baseball writers than there is between Ruppert and Huston and the New York Chapter of Baseball AVriters, yet on the other hand, few managers are as distant from the men who write of the exploits of their team as Huggins. |