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Show Mancuso Has Worlds of Confidence; He Had It In Those Sandlot Days in Houston, Says Report By r.AYI.E TALBOT NEW YORK, Oct. 2 iP Fellow Fel-low was hers today, a sports editor edi-tor from down In Texas, who Insisted In-sisted upon telling a story about Gus Mancuso, who will do a good shars of ths catchmg for tha Giants in the world series. "Every weekend." he recalled, "a young fellow would come and sit beside my desk. Usually it was Saturday night and he would have the official results of the City league. That was in Houston "And every Saturday night It was about the same. Mancuso had busted up a ball game with a triple or a horns run. Mancuso was a bearcat, I gathered. This kid who brought in the dope about Mancuso and ' the rest of the league never failed to draw his chair closer and tell me what a whale ol a ball player this Mancuso Man-cuso waa. "Finally the season ended and here was our lad with all the figures. fig-ures. They disclosed that Mancuso Man-cuso had led the City league in home runs, in triples, and in al-: al-: most anything else you can think off offhand. " This kid Mancuso must be quite a ball player,' I aaid to him. Do you think you could get him j ' , In here for a photograph?' " Hell' he said to me. Tnv Mancuso. Man-cuso. Bring on your photographers.' photogra-phers.' " That, then, is the story of ths man who will catch Carl HubbeU and Cliff Melton, starting next Wednesday. It explains in soma wise why Giant fans refuse to 1 worry about Bill Dickey, the long-legged, long-legged, long-hitting fellow who will catch for the Yankees. Mancuso las the Houston sports editor recalls! has plenty of faith in Mancuso. He isn't the hitter that Dickey is. but he is a smart handler of pitchers, and he, is a dangerous man in the clutch- |