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Show HUBERT PRUETT, BROWNS' ROOKIE, PROVES NEMESIS TO BABE RUTH ,K.W-w:..v.x...v.w:...,4J..(: '' V ' ' 'V,,E::,IW,,T,,:;v,i,,,N 0' ' ' . ' .. ri i liMk 1 4 f X Former University of Missouri Pitcher Who Possesses Famous "Fade-away" Ball. Hubert "Shucks" Pruett, twenty-one-year-old University of Missouri pitcher for the St. Louis Browns, who attracted attention by striking out Babe Ruth three times, once with the bases full, in the second game of the recent series with New York, has proved himself a real namesis of the noted home-run king. "Shucks," who has fanned Babe Ruth five times and walked him once in six times at bat, possesses the famous "fade-away" ball that made Christy Mathewson the world's greatest pitcher, according to Manager Lee Fohl. Fohl said he believed that Pruett's "fade-away" is superior to that of the "old master," because "Shucks" throws with his left hand "Matty" was a right-hander which gives the ball a peculiar reverse twist. Two years ago "Shucks' applied to the Browns for a tryout, but received this answer: "We can't use kids." He was sent to the Tulsa team of the Western league, and this spring the Browns gave him the coveted trial. Now, Fohl says, he is one of the "finds" of the season. |