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Show PITCHER WAITE HOYT AGAIN IN HOMETOWN i Youngest of Bij League Hurlers Returns to Gotham. Has Been Termed One of Most Promising Prom-ising Right-Handers in American League Began His Career With New York Giants. Walte Hoyt has gone back to Greater Great-er New York. The Brooklyn lad, who as the star pitcher of the Erasmus ball team ''was signed by John J. Mc-Graw, Mc-Graw, was shifted to the minors and then came back and made an enviable record for himself In the big-time circuit, cir-cuit, was traded by Harry A. Frazee of the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees. Hoyt has been called one of the most promising right-handers In the American league, and although he has only just turned twenty-one he has been taking his turn on the mound for the Red Sox with the veterans and has been handing In a good share of winnings, despite the fact that he is the youngest twirler in either of the big leagues. Boston, it must be admitted, was dubious as to Hoyt's future, for last year he was put out of the running in midseason when he seriously strained an abdominal muscle. His youthful f X f ' $ MfMmm V :. :: -,: - i ' !! 1 1 m M I ; Lv.. ii- i '.'J.... n in n ij Wa.te Hoyt. vitality carried him through the ordeal in good shape, however, and toward the close of the season be was as effective ef-fective a pitcher as could be found on the Red Sox staff. The bupropion seems to be that Hoggins will keep Hoyt in more or less of an experimental experi-mental stat:e for some time until he sl.ov.-i that he has comple'elv recovered recov-ered from his Injury, and is again ready for 1 ard work. |