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Show CUYLER NOT HaRD TO TRAVEL WITH Owner Wrigley Looks to Kiki for Needed Punch. Uazen ("Kiki") Cuyler, bench warmer warm-er and bad boy of the Pirates, is going go-ing great guns with the Chicago Cubs Owner William Wrigley and Mau ager Joe McCarthy look to this slen der, fleet-footed brunette of twenty-nine twenty-nine for the punch to put them across ahead of the field in the National league pennant chase. ''That Kiki Cuyler is some boy, some boy," said Wrigley. "Hit? You bet he can. Uard to get along with'i I never saw a more amiable player. He is fighting for the Cubs all the time. He is helping the rookies and he is going to give us the pennant this year, or I miss my guess by a mile." Kiki has been In professional baseball base-ball only eight years, but in that time he has experienced the sorrows and joys that many of the game's oldest veterans never realize. He has been sent back to the "farm" three times after a major league start ; he has hit his way to land among that small coterie of the game's best sluggers, he has been benched for insubordination insubordina-tion and has been traded down the river. Last season Cuyler was benched by the Pirates when he had a fuss with Donie Bush and Barney Dreyfuss. While many critics, including John McGraw of the Giants, believed Kiki was through, that his batting weakness weak-ness had been discovered and that Oe-ing Oe-ing hit by a pitched ball had made him bat shy, he has made good with the Cubs in startling fashion and seemingly rejuvenated them. Most Peculiar Home Runs Made by Oklahoma Player One of the most peculiar home runs ever made came in a game between Salina, Kan., and Barllesville, Okla., a few years ago. Bartlesville had a big (S-foot (S-foot 7-inch fielder named Murphy. The game was halted by rain in the fifth inning and the grass was wet when play was resumed. One of the Salina players hit a rolling drive into left. It shouldn't have been good for more than a dauble. The tall Murphy chased the ball to the fence, stooped down and picked it up, straightened up to his full height to make the throw-in. He was very close to the fence at the time and he was so tall that his hand, when he .drew back to throw, was above the edge of the fence. The ball was wet from rolling through the grass and it slipped out of Murphy's fingers as he tried to throw and dropped over the fence for a homer. |