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Show I Coveleskie Man of Honor I 5 The curiously pathetic figure of a worn-out pitcher has walked g g through the New York Yankee camp. Stanley Coveleskie, who joined 8 5 the club for a trial, convinced himself that he cannot do the Yankees M g any K"d and has gone to his home In Shamokin, Ra., because he is g . , j , rj- g f. rT'" g - 6 j. v&iS V 'r -"P honorable. He did not seek to conceal g the fact that his pitching arm is bother- g ing him again. He might have done so g and stalled, somehow, for weeks on end, g but that Isn't his way. He simply told 5 Miller Huggins he w?.s through and went g home. h It was only a vary few years ago g that Coveleskie was one of the best, and g certainly one of the smartest, of all the g big league pitchers. He was with the g Indians then. Tris Speaker thought he g was through and trade! Vim to Washing- g ton, where he pitched Bucky Harris' g team to their second pennant In 1925, g winning 20 games and losing only 5. a Last year he was not quite so good, yet g he managed to turn in 14 victories S against 11 defeats. His service with the g Washingtons ended recently when, un- 5 able to throw a ball more than 15 feet, g he drew his unconditional release. His g trial with the 'Yankees was a chullerrge to that fate he had thwarted three years g ago. g Coveleskie. even i:i annenrnnee. is v v 0. , unmistakably of the older school of pro- g it Stanley Coveleskie. . . ,. , T. . ' g S fessional ball players. It Was Kot in a g g' mood of utter hopelessness that Coveleskie quit t lie Yankee camp, for g g hone dies hard with the stout hearted. He thinks that a long rest and g g cai'efui treatment will rid his system of the infection caused by his a vt teetli which is the basis of the trouble he has had with his arm and g g that next spring he will be able to demonstrate all oyer again g his usefulness to a major league club. The chances, unhappily, are g g against him for numerous reasons. One is that he is thirty-six years g g old now. Another Is that he has pitched nearly 450 games in tke majors, g K t |