Show HUNNEFIELD NOW I IS STAR ROOKIE Given Wrong Label by Nu Nu- Numerous Numerous Numerous Ivory Hunters The Tho gents who shoe gum-shoe through the bushes In to quest of ot Ivory for the major mojor leagues sometimes err In their judgment Some have been known io to tout a peach when In reality It Jt wu was wasa a lemon Others have havo been known t td get the wrong slant and put the lemon label lobel on what waa was destined to become I a peach It was an error such as ai the latter that mado Bill Honey Boy BoT field Huns field a comparative unknown slide sUde Into White Stockings and practically overnight become about the most mo I widely advertised kid shortstop In either major But Dut this sudden ascension to fame hasn't surprised the young athlete In Inthe inthe Inthe the least He Is what you might term the essence of ot confidence wrItes Irv- Irv Irving Irr-Ing Irr ing Vaughan In the Chicago Tribune Now for the error of ot the ivory hunter bunter whereby Hunnefield wu was wa dropped Into the lap Jap of ot the White SOL Box Last year the Cincinnati team mado a first payment of ot on the la had to the Portland Ore team Before Detore completing the transaction the club decided to send an emissary for tor a final look The expert made the journey and wired back something about not oot sending good money after atter bad What adds Interest to the Hunne- Hunne Hunnefield field plunge Into a regular ular major major- major league Job Is le that he had bad Manager Ed Collins fooled tooled during the spring trip Collins weighing weIghing- tho the cockiness of ot the player against his skill couldn't de de- decide decide decide cide whether lIone Honey Do Boy was Just Justa a fresh tresh kid or a real star The an- an answer an answer saver came come many mony weeks week later when Bill Kamm was hurt and Hunnefield had bad to play third He lIe showed em eIn something toI I both In the field ond and at bat bat so o when Kamm recovered recovered there was wa nothing I Ieso eso else to do elo than to move our hero to I short Hoa lIos been there since Ince and In Inno inno Inno no apparent danger donger of being hoisted InI I out In the spring of ot 1923 1029 went South with the Macks Macka and made such a wholesome Impression that he be was farmed to Montreal tor for season season- seasoning beI I ing lag Nothing could stop him lIe stole bases boses until they threatened hIm hImI I with Injunctions and hit the ball boll hard bard hardIn i In the fall his good work forced the I Athletics to td t recall him I Because Deco use of Macks Mack's purchase of Sam Slim Sammy Sammy my Hole Hale It was necessary to send something to Portland In return so I DIll Bill was picked He made the Jour Jour- Journey Journey ney across the continent only to be shipped right back to the port Pa team lIe He was too good for lor beI I that crowd so Portland recalled him and last lost season he almost ran the I league breathless with 52 steals I |