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Show George StovaSI Making Good (EORGE STOVALL Is wearing the same smile as he did last season when he was piloting the Naps into third place. He has good reason to smile. He has made something of a ball team out of the St. L,ouls ; Americans, and he is given credit for, It. George Is hardly any better this season sea-son than during the seven and a half seasons he served as a Nap. The Browns needed Just such a player as ho Is, and needed hlro badly. Since Jim McAlecr. then manager of the Browns, decided in 1909 that Tom Jones' day of usefulness was past there have been nineteen St. Louis first basemen. base-men. Of these, eighteen failed to fill the bill. Stovall Is No. 19, and he's worth more than the other eighteen put together. George's presenco on first has Improved all the other ln-fielders ln-fielders Besides playing a great game-at game-at first, Stovall Is showing managerial ability, and St- Louis fans look for a first division club In 1913. Photo by American Press Association GEORGE 8T0VALL. |