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Show CY WILLIAMS' JOB NOW THREATENED Noted Fly Chaser May Find Himself Warming Bench. Cy Williams, who has played In the National league for 16 years, Is one of the most lovable characters In the game and he is always kind and helpful help-ful to the rookies, but still he soon will be thinking some such thoughts as these: "This fellow Klein, now where did he come from? Fort Wayne? Huh! Going to play the outfield this year. He's sure of it, because he hit .3G0 In GO games last year. Well, maybe he Is, ami maybe I will sit on the bench and watch him, but then again maybe not They have had me sitting on the bench or milking cows on my Three Lakes farm for many summers, but still I play In my 100 games every year. "Say, I was playing ball In Notre Dame college the year this boy, Klein, was born. 1 got Into the big league the year his folks celebrated his seventh birthday and bought him a fuzzy toy dog with black buttons for eyes. "And Whitney. When he was ten years old and playing with a rubber ball I was a veteran on the Chicago club. Why, I joined the Phillies before be-fore Whitney entered his teens. They were calling me '01 Cy' In the big leagues before any one of a half-dozen of these boys around this ball yard had ever gotten out of grammar school. And here I am still hitting more borne runs than any of them will hit, unless it Is Hurst. That boy Is some slugger, and he may well come up to my record rec-ord of 1923, when I led the league and tied Ruth. "Pretty good boys, though, and some of them look to me like real comers. That boy Whitney looks to me like the best third baseman since Pie Traynor broke In. He hit In more runs last season than Hornsby 103. Think of that! And he played a rattling good game at third, too. Steady as a roclf day after day." |