Show GOOD LEGS GIVE BROWN LEADOFF MAN sAME DASH AS FLEETEST YOUNGSTER r 1 te W II f I Many a big v teran finds 4 himself slipping at the age of I k 4 Jimmy Austin because because his legs legs legs' can cant can't t sta stand J the strain strain The vets Vete Veteran vete 1 r ran Brown Drown infielder r isn't troubled troubled- c- c with his propellers and is is going it at the same am sp speed ed as When h he broke into the game seventeen n Q 7 t years ago Bob Dorman's Dormans s cam camera r 4 y caught Jimmy as h he slid into a abase abase cr base and nd w was s. s safe b by a mile j- j 5 4 t I It t- t i j 0 A j'S S I t c By Fred I T T Tex T M March hi 18 JImmy Jimmy Austin will wUl start tart his twelfth se season In the tM American l league ague as leadoff man manfor manfor for th the th St. St Louis Lous Browns At age ag Yo 38 yoU agO 38 you dont don't find many le leadoff men The managers generally pick t tm n a Do younger 1 fellow But Jimmy Is a as r young ung as S the youngest He Ite has a Do fine pair of legs that still show no sign of going back on him His arm is ig strong and his eye k keen en And hes he's mighty smart The secret Secrets of Jimmy of-Jimmy Jimmy my Austins Austin's w wonderful c condition perhaps lies in the fl fact c that ho he varies vanes little in weigh the year around Hes He's still sun as trim trial as as' as asa a well trained trained- cot college lege athlete He weighs when in playing form He weighed d when he reported this spring sprin iI He lie just doesn't take on weight Most old players take on so mUch mich t if they h v ha to tn give hA v ft it im up th tt the younger fellows They've c come me and golie in 11 the American l league but not Jimmy Austin H He's Hes s 's there thereto t to o bid th them m W welcome and aud nd hes he's th there r when g good goodbyes byes ar are ar said This is his seventeenth year in professional pro f baseball lIe He doesn't do anything anything any any- t thing hIng else cite excepting man manage ge some 1 property prop prop- e erty in Cl Cleveland Cleland eland that wn was bought with h his is accrued earnings There Is is' is no more peppery ball ban I player t than han Jimmy and none more popular Hes He's going to attend to business around t the he third sack for Jimmy Burke He lie is J Jimmys Jimmy's right hand man mail and when Jimmy Jim my finds it necessary to split plit the squad f for or exhibition games Austin is given c Charge harge of ot the There are ae a lot of good recruit infielders infield infield- e ers ets ta in the Brown squad squad squad-eassy classy assy boys too tOo- But it isn't likely that any on one of of- them will be camping on Jimmys Jimmy's corner this season eason s ason |