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Show - Most Valuable Player Voted i TN THE closest election yet held jjj I fur the Natlnual league valuable player I'uul Wuner, the I'lrute right fielder. In Ills second big leugue year, won the prize with jjj 72 out of a possible 80 votei cast by the committee. Frank Frlscii of jjj the SI. Louis Cards was second I lug only one contest, led his league la hits with 32(1. made 41 two-hag- gers, and led his league In three- buggers wlth.18.und scored 114 jjj runs. A ball hawk In right field, fust, J keen, earnest, of high chnructer, Wuner Is m most worthy winner j wmi w points. Aim Rogers Ilonisby whs third with 54. s Warier has hnd an jjj u'.iiiizing record. It Is to be doubted If X there Is anytliinjc I" hosi'hiill to excel jjj nils young player's exploits In his first jjj two seasons under f the big tent. Lie came to the Pirate In l!)'Jll from Sun tjt Francisco utid, after jjj a riiiber ordinary start due to ncrvoti jjj nt'K;. he swung Into bis stride the sec jjj ond liiiintli ol the or the desired price.. J Waner was b un J to his present role. J His father was a semi-pro player In jjj an Illinois town of such promise tnat T Pop Anson once of- fered hlni a Job on the White Stocking. After the family jjj moved to an Oklu j lioniii f n rm the el- jjj der Wiiner's pln.vlng jjj skill heciiliie I null $ t ion In the family jjj I'Ulll I1S playing ball In the feed lots at nine years. He sharpened bis tint jjj Paul Waner seasoi and batted mid fielded t a dazzling clip nil the rest of the way. Some people thought Wiin.'r was the halting chump of tils league that year. He played' In III sanies and baited lt."(!. He was led jjj by P.ressler, llaigriive and 'Chrjis tenscn of the Reds, by Williams jjj of the Phillies. Karl Smith of the Pirates, mid Stephenson of the jjj Cubs, hut none of these played In as many as !2ll games. Ilargruve, jjj In ln.'i games, hitting .V.'!, was jjj awarded the crown. P.ut I'uul Waner had a technical title to that jjj crown. Put he won the batting 4c civwn In 11127 without a rival, jjj hatting .379 with llornshy his closest contender, hitting only .fl."9. jjj Waner played In l.Vi games, nilss- ting eye hitting at corncobs, the most elusive of all thrown objects jjj lie was pitcher for bis high jjj school nine lit fourteen. At six teen the Oklahoma City Western league club wanted to sign blm. but his dad Insisted he attend the jjj state normal. After three years in school he left In 1921 to pitch for jjj the Frisco club. He was nineteen then. The first thing he developed jjj on th Pacific slope was a sore arm. As a pitcher with a crippled wing he mourned on live Frisco jjj bench. In 1924 be got his chance to play regular In the outfield und jjj batted MM. In I92'i he butted .401 and won his big league trial, jjj He was married at the close of $ the regular season last September jjj : |