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Show NICKNAMES DON'T YiX i Several of Giants Are Under Six Feet in Height. Cubs Are Now Full Grown and Indians Are Not What Name Implies Some of Yankees Are Irish and Others Are German. The Giants aren't giants. Many of them are almost pigmies. Doyle, Kauff, Burns, Rariden and three or four others are far uuder six feet in height. The regular team, as a whole, probably doesn't average beyond 5-10 or 5-11. The Cubs are full grown. There's Joe Tinker, who Is well along in the thirties, the ancient Miner Brown and Frank Schulte. The Indians aren't what their name-implies. name-implies. They're not savage; they don't emit warwhoops or conduct scalping parties. The Browns are not brown. The Dodgers still dodge trolley car Dver in the wilds of Brooklyn, but they don't dodge the other ball clubs is they used to do in the bygone days. The Cardinals belie their name. Cardinals Car-dinals are not supposed to use pro-Cane pro-Cane language, chew tobacco or drink beer. Yet some of the Cardinals do those very things. The Yankees aren't Yankees. Some are Irish, some German, some English Eng-lish and the others are something other oth-er than pure Yankee descent. The Pirates are not thieves. You'll agree with us if you consult the base stealing records. Nor are they bold: They do not sail the seas except when they make occasional trips to Boston. , Some of them have buried gold, of. course, but they've earned it. As to the Reds well, maybe they ire a bit different. Anarchists are commonly referred to as "reds." If you don't believe that anarchy sometimes some-times prevails in Cincinnati ask a National Na-tional league umpire. |