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Show Toporcer Has Splendid Hands for an Infielder George Toporcer's hands are uncommonly un-commonly large. They resemble a shovel when he is scooping up the bounders. Big ha nils made Houus Wagner one of the surest infielders the game has ever had. They are any hall player's biggest asset. When Toporcer jumped from an unknown un-known sandlotter to the St. Louis Cardinals Car-dinals and made good, he received a flood of publicity because lie wore glasses. Bespectacled infielders in the big league are rare birds. He made good with the Cards and held down the third-base job until Milton Stock, holdout, returned to the fold. The youngster uses his head in trapping trap-ping bounders. He doesn't get set and let a hard-hit roller swoop over bis shoulder. He figures out the ball the instant the batter hits it, and if there is a sign of it hopping he hops with it. |