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Show Hp I BILL ARMOURS SUPERSTITIONS Hi' TOLEDO MANAGER HAS PECULIAR IDEAS ON HOW TO WIN H DALL GAMES. BROOM HIS STRONG POINT Duster Has to Be on Right Side of H, Plate or He Knows He Cnnnot Win How He Selects His Pitchers H- His Tramp Mascot, Picked Up In Philadelphia, and How He Won Games for Them. Hill Armour, who will lmui.iKP the Toledo team of Urn American nsnocln-lion nsnocln-lion tli i h hi,ioii, iuhI who formerly linil clniiKO tit Clnvehitid anil Detroit. Is One of llm moat Hiiperatltloim men lu iKiHulntll. It'H a known rant Hint ivery luiHplmll manager lius til niipor-nlltloiiH, niipor-nlltloiiH, hut Armour linn a million, more or Icsr. It Ih ciisloiiiiuy on I'Very American .leafitip groumlH lo have a liroom or B. '(luster for the timplre'H iihc, to keep ;tho homo plate elunn. Around the 'broom or duster hinges one of Ar-iinonr'H Ar-iinonr'H Htvonui'Mt HuporxtltlonR. Ugn-ternlly Ugn-ternlly the umpire throwH tho liroom or Klitxtcr to the left of tlio pinto, but lArmour IiihIsIh that It hu to tho rlRht of the At the beKlnnliiR of each game Armour will request tho umpire to Tteop tho broom to tho right of tho 'plate. With a broom to tho loft, lArmour wouldn't glvo a pinch of sniifl i for his chnnco to win. The umpires alwnys carry out Armour's request 'on this score, ns nono of tho othor fl imanngors ban a llko hobby. Tho piny- -era, however, aro all wise to tho stunt, and thoy kept tho umpire and Jlnna-.koV Jlnna-.koV Armour busy during his career In tho American league by shifting tho fl broom whenever they had a chance. Ono duy "Silk" O'Luuehtln hnd to thronten sovoral Now York plnyors -with banishment from tho gamo If thoy didn't allow tho broom to remain -whore ho placed It. Ono could generally tell how a game -was going lu which Detroit was ono of -tho contesting teams by Armour's Btnllo and tho position of his hat. "With Dotrolt In tho lend 1)111 woro ono qf thoao sweat smiles that reminds ono of a soubrctto hogging tho np-plause, np-plause, but with Dotrolt behind Hill's Taco was alwnys a study. When his team was In the. lend Armour ushally woro his lint well to tho back, but when tho othor team tied him up ho usually shifted It well forward, and by tho time tho other team, jumped In tho lend. Armour's haUwas well down over .his eyes. A ntraiiger getting to tho gntuo Into wouldn't need to look at tho score boan to bco bow tho gamo was going, a glanco at Uio Dotrolt bunch would sufflco. The Dotrolt ball players woro Just fl about as Buperstltlous as their maun- ftor. That's nothing unusual, howovor as all ball players aro Buperstltlous. fl 'Tho following story Illustrates tho H fact well, indeed: When In Philadelphia tho Detroit H toam always stops at tho old Contl H mental hotel. Ono day Inst summer H 'just before tho plnyers loft for the H park, a follow who looked llko a H tramp, but who talked as If he had H noon bottor days, dropped info the H ' liotol and Inquired for Manngot H Armour. Tho Detroit team had been H in a losing rut for somo time, and H -when tho ragged looking chnp in H formed Armour that ho was a mascot H and wanted to see tho gamo he wai H immediately signed. Ho was placed in H tho bus with tho players nnd escorted H to tho park. Detroit won tho gamo B Tho mascot wns taken to Detroit with H the loam uud tho Tigers won eight H more beforo they lost a gamo. It bo H lng to Cleveland In the last series on H tho Cleveland grounds. H Tho Detroits took the mascot to St H Louts, where ho was nil rigged out ir H n now suit of clothes and taken tc H Chicago to sco tho world's scries Do H trolt finished tho season In Chicago or H a Sunday, dofcntlng the. Whlto Sox H and tho trnmp picked up In Philly oc H cupled ono of tho boxes. The waj H the team worked tho railway eompnny H was an interoBtlng stunt Tho trami. 1 would always board tho special sleep H or Just us If ho was one of the plnj H ore. Ho would then lio secreted In nr. H uppor berth. After the ticket hna H boon prcuontcd to tho conductor and HH tho men counted the rest was easy fm H( tho knight of tho road, as Chnrlcj H,1- O'Leary and Dutch Schaffer used tc H double up so tho tourist could luivt & borth to aaaaaalaB ' |