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Show HM HAS RECORD FOR GETTiG STARS Cardinals'- Pilot Has Walton Wal-ton Cruise as Latest to Develop Into Marvel. XEW YORK, Sept. 8. Miller Hug-gins, Hug-gins, the scrappy little manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, has a habit of bringing out sensational ball players. play-ers. And he is keeping his average up to the standard this year. Several years ago, when Ivy Win go became acclimated in the National league, he was heralded as one of the biggest finds of the season. Ivy is still a great catcher, though he is now wearing the uniform of the Keds, not the Cardinals. In 1915 Hug came to bat with Lee Meadows, the only major league hurler who wears "specs,55 and Meadows caine through by winning a nice majority ma-jority of his games for the St. Louis club. The records this season prove that Meadows has developed into one of the most dependable pitchers in the Tener circuit. Last year Huggins introduced Eogers Hornsby as a regular Cardinal. He had shown Hornsby to the fans in a few games the year previously, but no one paid a whole lot of attention to the player until last season, when he was unanimously voted the find of the year. That Hornsby is upholding uphold-ing HuToins'a judgment may be verified veri-fied by glancing at the batting and fielding averages for this season. He is a star of the first water, and only a youngster. This year Huggins introduced Walton Wal-ton Cruise to the big show, and if Cruise isn't voted the most sensational sensa-tional newcomer of the year when the season ends he will be so close to the mark that it will take a magnifying glass to find out the difference. Cruise played in the American association as-sociation last senson and failed to hit .300, though he finished the season sea-son banging the pill at a . 294 clip. In the A. A. he was looked upon as a clean-cut, dependable player, with fairly good speed and the ability to make the pitchers work hard. But he wasn't classed as a world-beater. What does Hug do? Why, Hug grabs Cruise from the Saints, puts him into a St. Louis uniform, gives him a few slans on the broad of the back and a few pointers regarding his hitting and fielding, and, behold we have the National league sensation of 1917! Name a ball player in any position who has broken in this season and who is more valuable to his club than CVuise. It can't be done, Steve, it can't be done. |