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Show CHICK FEWSTER'SAYS I! FATE PROTECTS HIMjj Victim of Bean-Ball Crowding j Plate as Much as Ever. I i 1 1 ! SUr Infielder of rfew York Yankee Assumes Crouched Position at ! Bat With His Head Direct. I ly Over the Plate. j Chick- Few iter, slar Yankee Infield-er, Infield-er, who was lilt by n lirnn hull lti-t jear, Is Crowding the ptnte us iiiu'ili an eer this mison. ' "I'll never lie henned iignlii," ku Kewsler. "Kale dvexn't penult etioh , accidents lo happen twice. lt true I croud the plate. 1 take h crouched ' poiitlon nt lint m that my heiul In ill- I reetly over the plate. A pitched I nil j filmed directly nt my heuil would usually he n Mr Ike. "1 duck the 'dusters' mid let 'em shoot past my head. The good uni'H 1 mill." Paint have speculated much on IVw-xler's IVw-xler's esse. Ijist spring nt JaekMin-llle, JaekMin-llle, Hn, Kewster was lienned liy .lefT Pfeffer, llriiokljn pitcher. ! His skull imis fractured. For hour I he lay unconscious. , Ills life wiik ilt ; lmlreil of. For weeks be ennJd not talk A piece of his skull about the kUi of n dollar was removeil. Kewvler I' now a normal pcrxoii. lie wears his cap well down on tin side of his lienil .lust liiklile the cup WM i '&&;- Yd. WjXW Chick Fewster. Is a Htcel plate which protects (he spot where Hie portion of skull wus taken nwny. "I've no rciollettlon of ever ncelug Pfeffer wind up l throw the ball that hit me," sajs Fewster. He hnil Just slipped a fnsl one by me. "I was thinking to in self that Ibis fellow litis. Mmifthlug mid Hint I'd better bet-ter witti b him. Then exerjlhlng gol hlutk." By eolncldeine Kewster iignln hulled iigiiliiM Pfeffer on the miiihiTnir of Hie iltiy of the niclilenl. He gol three Jilts. |