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Show SISLER CONTINUES HIS IMPROVEMENT By Tribune Special Sport Service. ST. LOUIS. June II. The oftener w gaje upon GeTre Slsler of the Brown:; the more we become be-come convinced that be is the perfect bail j player a youth who. in time, may dim tho lustre , of many of the brightest stars that ever ehotie in 1 Ise baseball firmament. ! Sisler Is a poem of nioMon. lie If: graceful to an extreme. Every move he makes is a, pretty , thing to wat"h. U is quite a sizeable outh and carries a lot of weight, but. he Is wonderfully , proportioned. I.ajoie w,w considered one of the ; most, graceful men that ever sieppc-d upon a ball . field, yet hose who have seen Sisler and also the great Larry in his prime pass the laurels , to Sisler. There is nothing in a baseball way that Sisler cannot do and do hotter than the a vera go ball player. He is a grand hitter, and he oxudess that same Z-i-z-hig that ued to come from the bats of "Wagner. Lajoie. Delehanty and other louters. Sisler 13 a speed demon. Ho can travel (o first as fast probably as any man in the. same. Few. If any men, can beat him in a dash fiom home plate to second base. He reaches the crest of his great seed after he. makes t ho turn. Sisler originally was pitcher for the I'nivershy of Michigan. Now bo's first basing for the Browns,- because they need him there more than they do in the pitcher's box. Put him anywhere in the lineup and he's a star. He can play any position with coua 1 brilliancy. And wherever he is put he covers acres of ground and demon- st rates that he is one of the greatest all-around j ball players the same has produced. 1 And. best of all. Sisler has brains. He If I one of those players of the Cobb-Evers-Collins type players who play not only -wl'h (be hands and feet, but with their hearts as well. |