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Show Sluggers Hope to Come Back After Slump i Swv CMMPlONiP &EEMED 5 ' ' FINISHED A RlH&LC I k.S' WON IT WW .349, POINT 6CMND WEK. .JvVl V'7 WASN'T BN WMfcLP SLUMPED IN 5&j AND WAS f ' , -C XslvV $INC' ANt NoW SZNTeHCED To Tfe STLOUlS S7ll0p J DOESN'T EVEN . BUT VOSMlK RECOVERED Ht$ S ' APPEAR To BE fOfW, WAS PiPtyEVED, S TS X I GDOD DNi AMD SHOULD HELP L f MATERIAL.... Tt BOSTON 8ED X " Myer Expects to Appear In 154 Games Next Year By HARRY GRAYSON Special to The Telegram Cleveland's hesitancy to accept Charles Solomon Myer in a deal with Washington recalls the fall of the American league's two best hitters of 1935. They were this same Buddy Myer and Joe Vosmik of the Indians. On the face of things, one might suspect that the battle for the junior jun-ior circuit's batting crown of two years ago, waged until the final day of the campagin, left Myer and Vosmik exhausted. That If absurd, of course, but the fact remains that It took both players play-ers some time to recover from the shock. Myer hasn't been himself since, as a matter of fact Myer was something In the way of a aurorise winner in 1935 be- wrll washed up. His legs were fairly well shot, they said. He couldn't get oat of his tracks. This upset your correspondent, who dislikes to see first class chaps like Myer pass out. so I telegraphed him at his Ellisvllle, Miss., home, and was greatly pleased at his reply. re-ply. There may be news in it for some of the boys. Myer experts to play a full schedule In 1938. He's feeling great and is confident that he will make a complete comeback. During only one season could it be said that he was away for any great distance, you know 1936 when he was out the greater part of the time and his batting mark dropped to .269. Keeps in Shape Myers weight Is back to normal. He's hunting quail or engaging in some other outdoor exercise daily to keep his pins In shape. It's early to bed and early to rise with him, and h Insist that If he keeps improving as he has since the 1937 season ended, he can't see any reason why he can't roar along as he did while playing such an important im-portant role in keeping the Nationals Na-tionals up front When Clark Griffith hears this he'll be tougher to deal with, for money-playing second basemen like Myer are few and far between. cause he wasn't afraid to go to bat on the concluding afternoon, when he manufactured four hits. Bad Habit Voamik stood pat He refused to take a chance and remained in the dugout where, in addition to finishing fin-ishing a point behind Myer, he obviously ob-viously contracted bad habits. The Cleveland Bohemian alumped in 1938 and waa sentenced to the St Louis Browns. That waa such a lesson to him, however, that he anspped out of It In a hurry, and with such good result that he recently re-cently was reprieved. He should help the Boston Red Sox in 1938. Oscar Vitt the new Cleveland manager, was keenly Interested when he heard that Myer was on th market but cooled off when he discussed the brown-eyed Mississip-pian Mississip-pian with other American leaguers. Although Myer ankled the plate 49 time la Itt gamea hut aeaaoa. Vitt waa totd that the man who starred with the Nationals Na-tionals tor a long waa pretty |