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Show MANAGER HUGGINS IS GIVEN SCANT PRAISE Lands Pennant for Yanks Despite De-spite His Unpopularity. With Team Full of Prima Donnas Little Leader Had Worst Managerial Mana-gerial Task in Major League Deserves Lot of Credit. Miller Huggins, the "Mite Manager" of the New York Yankees, has received re-ceived but few of the nice words usually usual-ly passed out to a pennant winning pilot. Huggins, unpopular In New York, was in a peculiar predicament. If he didn't win the pennant, it was his Job. When he won it, he got no credit. "Any manager ought to have won the championship with a team like that," represents the sentiment of New York. With a team chock-full of prima donnas, Huggins has had the worst managerial task In the major leagues. The players dislike him and the fans ignore him. On the second Western trip, Huggins Hug-gins was taken sick and was away from the club for two weeks. Roger Peckinpaugh took charge of the club and It won ten straight games. "Keep Peck In. Huggins can't make them play ball," the fans clamored. Regardless of adverse sentiment Huggins deserves a lot of credit for the victory of the Yanks. It is his ball club. Helped by a willing pair of owners, who opened wide the purse-strings, purse-strings, Huggins built up the Yankees from nothing. He has had them consistently con-sistently near the top, where they used to be a second-division club. Much of his unpopularity Is due to his retiring nature and partly to poor health. He does not mix with the fans i va fmmm X iewspaiier Unl IIHII I I I Manager Miller Huggins. off the field and keeps in the back ground. Huggins is one of the smart est men in baseball and just about thi wisest trader In the big leagues. H has made many mistakes in handlln) his pitchers. Last year he was blame for the loss of the pennant by the wa he rotated his hurlers on the last Western trip. Huggins is in the unfortunate posi tlon of having every one analyze hll work to find faults. The bugs neve) criticize McGraw, because they don'l look at him critically. |