Show 1 I 1 4 4 S fr i fit f t Y c l t FF f Southworth's Southworth Career Unique j i jINCE INCE INCE Billy Southworth has bas been called to head hend the Cardinals this 3 C season there has hus been more or less humorous speculation on SINCE l how long he will hold the Job Even E Billys Billy's friends and ond they 3 comprise about D 09 per cent of the folks Interested In baseball Jo Io not ot think he will last Ion long They soy say he Is too nice and easy going for or 4 the he difficult task of handling a n team of temperamental champions But t tSam Sam Breadon Brendon his boss shrewd keen and nud successful In n business and i t In baseball thinks differently I 1 know orth letter better than a lot tot of ot people declared Breadon while in New York at the lie February t I schedule meeting m lIng and I watched him pretty prelly close to know something 4 about hm I think he will make a n successful leader lender for tor the Cards i I lie He has lias plenty of character and i firmness for or the job for or nil that i p he Is ts such a n nice lIce fellow And I 1 3 would have to be sure he hadS had t S f these qualities before turning over I the club to him even If he tie were ere 3 t the llie nicest tell fellow ow n the tine world i ithe Southworth's baseball career Is unique A fine One fielder n a natural p hitter fast rast smart likable tern tern- terni 1 i In his habits yet with all nil 4 p these he be tolled toiled In the baseball baseballS j I yards of ot eight minor-major minor l lf r for fourteen years before he heX I f II achieved ed stardom And mind you f fI I when he scale scaled dine dhe heights for 1 the Cardinals In their pennant j I t Mw drive of or J 19 G G it was just after his M w CT 1 most dismal and discouraging fall fall- t ure of or nil all with McGraw McCraw of the i Southworth Giants Glants- From the very beginning 4 Billy i of hIs liis baseball career with Ports Ports-f Ports Ports- Portsmouth f m mouth Ohio back In 1912 Southworth was always brushing the fringes 4 of ot fame but something Intervened ened every time hIs hia gloved ell hand clutched t 1 at the laurel or his bat wa about to bring him the baseball bays 3 For Instance He Ill played so well for Portsmouth before he was 3 5 oI 4 twenty that Cleveland signed ned him and farmed him to T Toledo ledo A broken 3 ankle set him back but he was leading the tine international league In InS hitting when Cleveland elond recalled him In the middle o of the 1915 1015 season d I I sere Here witS was w is his chance cliance but he slumped In his bis hitting and ond was sent to the Pacific coast Ho ne led the Portland club In everything during the tine i v M t 1016 season and refused to play again In the majors for the lie salary I I offered by Cleveland when ho he was called back hack He lIe was Pas sold to the lie Pirates who wino promptly him to Birmingham r 1 He played such wonderful ball In the Southern association that t d the Pirates recalled him in lOIS 1918 but while he fielded a n million and ond 5 to 1 was fast ns as a streak on the bases yet his hitting bitting did not reach line lie 4 t coveted and required mark So it was he lie went to Boston In i t X 1921 1031 1 1 In the trade that brought Maranville to the Pirates In Boston Southworth climbed over o that OO batting mark and seemed to be surely on his way to stardom McGraw McCraw grabbed him as ns Just the man g t he wanted to round out ont his outfield In the Bancroft deal al with the Braves In the winter of ot 1923 3 but in two seasons with the Giants South t ol worth simply could not get going i And then It was that William II n Southworth arose In 10 his might 1 and came into his own He batted battell 3 O 0 that year for the Cards and was 5 a n vital cog In their pennant machine His Ills home run against the lie Giants f 1 late in the season clinched the pennant His ills home run In the second 4 game of ot the world series turned the tide a against the Yankees A bad 3 i d ankle the next nest year ear sent hIm to Rochester to be manager on n a Cardinal 4 s 1 6 farm He tie won tile the International flag last year and resumed his great 3 play ploy In the outfield o And now Southworth comes conies back to the lie majors as ns a n manager manager lie He says he may play A most likable and Interesting fellow ellow Is the new t boss of or Breadon's ball boll club Southworth Is smart He lie studies the t game gome He Ie Is much given ghen to reflection Southworth Is thirty five d r y- y 4 T AA |