Show Lefty Grove Goes Human Change Both Startles and Pleases Scribe 15 By 81 Untied United Irus CHICAGO June 27 Not 27 Not since the handsome Dr Jekyll's potent brew got the best of ot him has nn any man managed managed managed man man- aged such a startling metamorphosis as that accomplished by Robert Moses Grove during the months between the end of the 1931 baseball sea season on and the beginning of the 1932 grind This time last year ear Robert Moses who is known to the trade as 33 Lefty II was just about the cuss in I basebalL No No he was the cuss You couldn't talk to him for fear of getting etting bitten When he wasn't out there in the middle of the lawn pitchIng pitch- pitch Ins Ing the man wolfed lone around with witha a look on his scowling cowling pan th that t said Id better than words Keep out posted no trespassing and Md advance at your own risk In short Robert Moses Mosco was a conceited conceited con con- smug satisfied headache Now ladies and gentlemen get a load of or the 1932 Grove Why he is just about the sweetest ch character you ever knew He smiles greets strangers strangers strangers stran stran- gers with a cheery Hello and wonder wonder won won- der of wonders actually welcomes interviewers who seek his opinion on such pressing matters as the future of the fast ball and is it true the Athletics arent aren't a happy happy family fam lam ily fly Last year ear he greeted Interviewers with a look that would freeze first class CIMS gin and such encouraging remarks remarks re marks Naw I aint got nothing to tol say and What the devil are you picking on me for Naturally there have been dozens of reasons advanced for sudden right right- about They range rang from a change chance in diet to a vision I Lefty Hy had one night after he had frightened a waitress by leaving a dime tip Up The most logical explanation however however how how- ever has to do with the Philadelphia sports writers When Lefty arrived at the spring training camp he was the same large and overwhelming pain And the correspondents true to their trust recorded same for their papers One batch of papers it seemed contained con con- tamed a bumper crop of uncomplimentary uncomplimentary remarks about the sour southpaw Armed with these one of Lefty's friends cornered him read the dispatches and pointed out the errors of his way I Lefty agreed with his friend and nd promised to be human It was a hard task at first but he applied himself diligently and success finally was his Now h he c can n walk down the street without a single mother read that right please grabbing her child chUd and saying Come here Oscar Here comes that terrible Grove man |