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Show e Oscar Vkt Should Prove Tonic Injun Team Needs By Associated Pres Oscar Vitt banks on a keen baseball brain and a keen sense of 1 humor to help him make a success of managing the Cleveland Indians. In-dians. For 16 years ever since he bowed out of the majors as an active Dlaver Vitt has dreamed of settins a chance to manage a big league club. Always a happy warrior, with a flare for sparkling repartee, he personifies hustle. And hustle is likely to be' the watchword when the Indians assemble in '38. Cleveland has become sort of a burial ground for managertnl ambitions am-bitions for details ask Walter Johnson, Roger Pecklnpaugh, Steve O'Neil. etc.) But that does not seem to worry the effervescent Mr. Vitt much. Osf Good Talker Always a good talker, he feels be can win the support of those gentlemen gentle-men of the Cleveland press who have had much to say on the question ques-tion of who would manage the Indians In-dians in the past. A winning ball club would provide a more powerful argument in Vitt's favor than anything any-thing he might say, however. As a ball player, Vitt was an awkward though very effective fielder. His fine throwing arm often saved mm much embarrassment embarrass-ment while covering third base for the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox. His lack of size worked to his disadvantage at the plate. Vitt laughed off that shortcoming with a bit of philosophy all his own: Born to Think "Some guys are born to slug and some are bora to think. I was born to think. All my power ia above the shoulders." For years his ability as a manager man-ager was conceded by baseball men. But not until he made a phenomenal phenome-nal success in piloting the Newark Bears to the 1&37 pennant did the chance he wanted come along. |