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Show Danger in Exhibition Games Always Present Big league owners or managers do not really mean it when they say they do not care If their clubs meet reverses re-verses in spring exhibition contests. The truth Is that a major pilot and manager usually thinks almost as much of winning a meaningless exhibition exhi-bition with some bush league outfit as they do n regular championship battle. After getting a wallop from some minor team the big league pilot and owner tHke on woe-begone expressions. The players take note of it and realize they are at fault. The result is they go out on the field determined not to be shown up by some inferior team and the result Is needless but costly injuries, such as "Rabbit" Maranville, shortstop and captain of the Chicago Cubs, suffered recently in an exhibition game at Los Angeles. The loss of a star athlete in a spring game is almost as old as baseball itself. it-self. Virtually every major league team has at some time In its history had to suffer because some athlete took a fool's chance. |