Show THIRTEEN IS NOT UNLUCKY NUMBER pitcher J miljus has seen much service in box chev call roger II ornsby a baseball nomad because he ne er settles in ona place for very long but II ornsby la as stable as a rock compared to one member of the indians the great national league slugger has seen service with seven clubs since he arole into professional baseball john miljus has worked for thirteen writes gordon cobbledick lck in the cleveland plain dealer johns baseball career started at the university of pittsburgh in 1912 for three years he twirled for the patt nine and at the end ot the 1914 sea son was signed by the hew york giants the following season he jumped mcgrawsr mcgraws outfit and signed with the pittsburgh federal league club that short lived threat against the supremacy of the two major leagues went to smash and miljus got a job with st marys in the interstate league and the nest year 1917 found him ft ath brooklyn the robins farmed him out to binghamton in the new york state league and he promptly jumped again this time into uncle sams army the war over he joined the toledo in 1919 and was back at brooklyn in 20 and 21 the season of 22 be divided between hew orleans and in the southern association in 23 he was with the rochester international leaguers and in 24 with bridgeport in the eastern league from bridgeport he went all the way to seattle and there in alie salubrious lub rious atmosphere of the pacific coast circuit big john seemed to find himself lie won 20 games in 1925 and in 1027 he crashed through with 12 straight victories and the burgh pirates bought him in oldsea son in the middle of last summer the pirates asked waivers on him and in the absence of general manager billy evans and secretary walter me achols a clerk in the cleveland ball club office put in a claim for his services it developed however that a quirk of baseball law fixed bis price at instead of the established waiver price of cleveland tried to from the transact alon but the pirates appealed to corn kenesaw mountain landals and that high dignity ruled that the indians must go with the there were chuckles all over the league and miljus was culled the 16 white elephant and similar un complimentary names then john began to pitch tor the indians and it became apparent that boise hurl ers have been bought for more money lie took part in 11 games for cleveland in the fag end of the 1928 season and though his won and lost record gasn wasn t impressive the boffl caal average showed eliat lie had al lowed only earned runs per alne inning game right now it 1001 s as it miljus will be one of the mainstays main stays of the indian pitching staffs ue has a woric of stuff a good head and a great heart |