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Show 1.- ..-...) ALEX WAS WAGNER'S JINX If there were many Grover Alexanders In the National league during the days of Honus Wagner, that mighty batsman wouldn't possess the impressive batting record be now has. nonus Wagner, during the period that he and Grover Alex- Iander were playing the circuit, faced each other 100 times and the man from Nebraska held the mun from Allegheny county, ; Pennsylvania, to 20 base hits, which meant an Insignificant butting average of .200. Uouus ; ! niude no homers, no triples and only two doubles in the 100 times he tried to solve the curves of the truly great hurler. A O |