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Show VETFRAN CRAVATH IS BRAINY BALL PLAYER Newly Appointed Manager Is Old est Man on Team. Doing Better Work for Phillies This Season Than for Several Years Batting Pacemaker of National Na-tional League. Tho one rent, outstanding platinum-plntcd platinum-plntcd star of the Phils Is tho oldest player on tho team's pay roll, namely, tho well-known nnd dangerous Clifford Cnrlton Crnvnth, who has Just been appointed manager of tho club, succeeding suc-ceeding Jack Coombs. Mr. Crnvnth hit the thlrty-suvcn-ycar mark on March 23 last. Hitting tho thirty-seven mark Is the worst thing dabby has dono In his life. Ho hits tho bnll much harder. Tho only nctlvo player now In base-bnll base-bnll who Is older than Crnvnth Is Dodo I'nskert of tho Cubs. Pnskcrt will be thirty-olght years old next August. Cruvnth, on tho road to thirty-eight yenrs of age, Is tho wonder of baseball. cftrro Today finds him the batting pacemaker of ono of tho major leagues. Ho Is playing better ball this year than he has dona In Uio last three or four sea-eons. sea-eons. A common cstlmato of Crnvnth la that ho Is a slow-thlnklng, slow-moving, slow-flcldlng, good-natured chap who pounds out base hits by sheer might. If It Is tho common nnalysls It Is tho wrong one. Cravnth Is probably prob-ably tho headiest hall player on his team. Ho Is lasting yenrs after most plnycrs pnss Into retirement, because of brains. Crnvnth can divine tho Intention of nn opposing pitcher far better than his younger nnd inoro cgllo pnls. Ho has n pair of sharpshooter eyes and uses them for - seeing purposes. When Crnvnth drives out n smoking hit you enn rest assured that ha know what was being served td him nnd was set for It. Thcro Is no hlt-or-mlss style with him. Ho knows how to piny for batsmen In right Held nnd plnys hits against tho wall nt the Phlladelphln park better than any other right-flclder with tho Phils or on nn opposing tenm. Crnvath makes his defensive skill all tho more vnluablo by his unennny throwing. Crnvnth actually Is ono of tho best throwing outfielders In America. Speaker can heavo a bnll faster, but even Speaker can't throw with the Judgment of Crnvnth. |
