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Show MAC FAYDEN MADE GOOD FIRST YEAR Bespectacled Pitcher of Red Sox Is Clever Hurler. Danny MacF.iyden, bespectacled pitcher of the Boston Ited Sox, ought to have u h Iter record than he compiled com-piled in the season of when he won nine and lost fifteen games. There are few pitchers In the land that possess as yood a curve ball as the youngster who graduated from Sonierville high school otdy two or three years ago. But umpires declare Danny's curve will not always behave. It will not always go where Danny Intends In-tends it shall. This lack of control is bis handicap. Danny, by the way. has oeen wearing wear-ing glasses since he was twelve years old and be now is twenty -three. That means he was a spectacled pitcher while in Sonierville. Mass., playing for a high school team that bad two other future big leaguers. Haskell Hillings of the Detroit Tigers and -Catcher Frank Hogan of the Giants. Danny then was famed for his hatting hat-ting prowess and when he hro'.:e into the American league opposing pitchers said to themselves. "Can ease up now Here's a kid pitcher at bat and wearing wear-ing glasses, at that.J' Hut when the youngster came through with a hatting hat-ting average of more than .3(H) and came back in 10'J7 with one of .23.'!, the pitchers changed their opinion of Danny and began to work on hi rn with the result that MacFayden hatted but .14,'j during the 1!2S campaign. MacFayden is a real down-easter, having been bom at I'rovincetown, (.'ape Cod. His father died when he Was only four years of age and Danny adopted baseball' as a profession upon completing high school, figuring he should aid his mother, who was in the real estate business, in financing the family. His mother wanted him to go to Dartmouth, but Danny joined the Red Sox instead. His first game was a tough assignment, assign-ment, as he was sent in ugainst Walter Wal-ter Johnson. All Sonierville turned out to see Danny pitch and he worked his best in an effort to win. He held Washington to six hits, but lost, 4 to 1. He had his revenge against Washington Wash-ington last year, however. Selected by Manager Carrigan to pitch the opening open-ing game in front of the big crowd at Washington,, a crowd that included - President Calvin Coolidge, he won. 8 to 5. Washington made three runs off him in the first inning and was almost helpless before his curves the rest )f the route. |