Show RABBITS RABBIT'S OBITUARY STILL T Star Capable of Ra Rare Feats I tics Feel Maranville Will Make Comeback if Anyone Any Any- t one Could Do It ItI I By DAN PARKER rew ew York Mirror l Sports 1 u cant can't count a fellow like Rab- Rab Maranville out for a little thing J a broken leg even il 11 it does does pen en to be a multiple fracture and Rabbit is 41 and brittle who played under Mir Mir- Man Stallings 20 years ago ngo Mir Mir-I but more to the sou OU than his time one boss has 1 decisIons over bigger opponents rt ria a broken leg in recent years and may win this bout too b Great Evolution E he baseball world compares the bitof a decade ago with the spry t of today and wonders that such was possible o 01 the old Maranville was the in- in nt ot of this plunge fully clothed lIthe the fountain on the plaza of the kingham hotel in St S1 Louis after ess or of goldfish while on n a bender bit who always comes up with ball came up this time clutch clutch- wIggling goldfish in each hand At the age ae when the most tern tem crate ot of ball players are about trough as major leaguers Rab Rab- it swore off liquors and made Ie IC most amazing comeback In InIC InIe Ie IC annals of the game In his te thirties and early forties l Is playing actually Improved Ight up to the time he broke his g last Jast week he was vas considered rte Ftc ot of the best second basemen l. l baseball abbit hails from SprIngfield s. s and in his veins lows flows the thed d ot of sturdy French Canadian and tt 1 ancestors His father to toe toe e e the Black Maria for the Spring Spring- i 1 police department When the bit was rIding ill In a new r York police patrol wagon one day back in the summer or of 1925 hitting a taxi driver in Times are he insisted his old gent drove uch meaner wagon At that time anville was vas enjoying his brief i as manager or of the Cubs I doubt enjo enjoying in is the right word his reign was one of the most rious on record and certainly the thet t test t. t Fools Critics hough few know more baseball 1 the Rabbit he is essentially the theer theer er and the burden of managing aU all club weighed heavily on his At that time the Rab- Rab baseball obituary was written to be torn up later When the Igers cut him loose in 1926 an- an r ins Instalment t or of his rare farewell well no- no was WilS written U It proved prema prema- again for the Rabbit after a J in Rochester came back with Cards ancl when they dispensed 1 1 his services s at the end or of the J I season returned to good old ton the town in which he had won von lame If the he remarkable will ower could supply the time and lher mineral salts required to tonit tonit nit the multiple fracture there be any doubt about hI his bUlly to stage sae a comeback at the worst side of the theise ise ne though one realizes Mat Mat-an- ilIc will be lucky to pia play ball much moch less this season In ct he be may be lame for the rest r f his life Ille But lame or sound t r limb hell he'll always be a great g on a ball field The test lost comical player who ever er a uniform he be in as a coach as Ion long as lie he able to hobble out to the coach coach- rig line he e explanation ot of the Rabbits Rabbit's as a major league star lies the fact that he is so short but built buill that his underpinnings nt go back on him until unlit he slid a ri the plate at St. St Petersburg Wed Wed- day and caught his left leg in Norman Kies Kie's shin guards is sad to think that he had been bounteously taken care or of in this that he he had never learned ily or of caution f |