Show TATTERED GARB WINS mamaux drew ragged uniform but displayed real goods winning pitcher on 01 pirate staff owes owen hia his success to an Inci incident devit on opening day at cincinnati crowd wae was with him at 1 mamaux llie the youngster who a haa proved a whining pitcher thi thia year tor for the pittsburgh pirates owes his suo BUL cess tale this season o 0 lately lar ely to an inci dent that occurred in cincinnati on opening day there were not enough new pirate uniforms to go around and the result was that one or two youngsters had to wear the faded and tattered suits suite of the year before the thrills of the opener and the music of ot the bands did not riot appeal to mamaux he lie caw saw recruits now among the discards wearing the clean gray garb while his suit was vas held tu together gother with safety pins al at sat on the bench peeved and heartbroken 1 I ought to have bad had one of those he muttered then he sat at with his head down and watched tho the neatly clad rookies dia porting themselves finally bo he lumped jumped up tore off hta his sweater coat ind ez ex claimed doggone Dog gono them III show shoo tm who has the best right to a new uniform and then in bis his patched up garb ot of 1914 gray tho the dormont lad took his place among the fastidious ores he pitched to the battery in pr practice acIce he fielded bunts and be he did everything he could to make himself useful mamaux won the crowd which no doubt figured the old adage that the clothes dont don t make tho the man marcaux ia Is the son of a wealthy pittsburgh tent and awning manufacturer the eldor kamaus la Is a baseball bug and encouraged his tits son to take up the great national rno ac no a profession As a kid the youngster was crude and did not fit in he lie was tired fired off at least a dozen semipro teams around pittsburgh to be sure that his tits son would have a regular position father mamaux organized a 4 A www Z X 0 AI at mamaux team it was said that al at was even tired by the manager of bis his fathers team even that did not disconcert tho the elder mamaux he ile was that bis his son should bo be a ball player barney dreyfuss Drey tuss owner of the pirates was appealed to barney carried tho the youngster tor for two years without sending him lma lm in A year ago mamaux hashed flashed forth as a pirate hurler today he Is recognized as the most promising pitcher in iii altner c aner of the big leagues bhamani Is unquestionably the only caso case on record ro cord where a player bought hie his wiy into the big show his ills development did not cost the pittsburgh a f ingle single sou daddy mamaux pd for far bis his sons education and the beat 1 part of it la Is he says be feels amply every time he goes to forbes field and sees al pitch a good gama game |