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Show Repartee Decision Won by Friend of Manager Harris An unidentified young man who sat In the grandstand at Comiskey park, Chicago, furnished one of the leading bits of baseball repartee heard so far this season. The young man was yelling loudly for Detroit. One of the soft drink vendors took objection to the allegi- " Bucky Harris. nnce". The vendor sidled up to the young man and asked : "Is the Detroit team hiring you to y yell for 'em?" "No." "Then what's the Idea rootln for 'em so hard?" "Ducky Harris Is a friend of mine." "Well, you picked a swell egg for a friend." The young man looked the soft drink vendor up and down, smiled and said quite, loudly : "Well, he isn't selling pop." That was the last seen of the soft drink vendor while the Detroit enthusiast en-thusiast continued cheering and the crowd cheered with him. About the only thing Ed Leader, at Yale, wishes to know concerning an oarsman Is whether he can pull his share of the boat and row fast enough to win. If he doesn't live up to these requirements, re-quirements, he may be a nice boy and good to his parents, or he may be cap-lain cap-lain of the eight, but out of the boat he conies. There is nothing personal about it. Leader's attitude apparently is: "Either "Ei-ther win, or give your oar to some one who can pull it a little harder." In a game played July IS. 1013, on the grounds of the New York Nationals, Na-tionals, three balls were tossed out when the game started, and they were the only ones used in the entire game. Today there are ten times that number num-ber of balls used In every game. One of the old-time pitching greats. Deacon Phillippl, who still hangs around baseball quarters in Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, says of the pitchers of today, compared with those of yesterday: "Don't believe the wise folks who say pitching today isn't what It used to be. The pitchers today are just as smart, but they don't have the leeway lee-way we had in the old days," j |