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Show CRITIC PRAISES O'DOWD. "You may call him O'Dowd or jBBt Plain Dowd if you wUh, but there Is ono thing certain. Harry Wolvorton will not havo to worry about a shortstop short-stop next season. If this young follow fol-low from Brockton keepB up tho pace he has set so far the Elborfelds tho Knights and tho Fosters will bo' forgotten." for-gotten." says a writer in Tho Now York Evening World "Dowd comes os near poirscuRlnf: tho raw materials that go to make up n Inflelder as W ,f.?wnK Ur that has ""hod on I he hilltop sine. Clark Griffith rare the Boaton And Sox that battlo for the nennanL Ttat wan away baek In Pot Don t yoy romember " ' ..MDo Kd.Ca.moJn unheralded and un- I ung but hundreds of fans, dlsap-polntod dlsap-polntod over defeat at tho bonds of he Tlcers. went nwar from the plateau pla-teau one night ha'ppy OTe7 P.wft ! thought that Wolverton had planted I the first seed in bin attempt to iuo a nucleu. for next reason. Anchor one or two like Dowd and. a Han? I Sparrow 0ays. Old Gooryo Xuelr.?. ' will be a healihy plant InJrfS? ! The programs tell ua that hta name I Is O'Dowd. but that Isn't rigbt r wa-s tho yonng ahortitop nlmioir'tpho P tho -O' In 'O'Dowd;- and hi Id ran VS aly ?Ur0 to I proper thing would bo to chango -1st Inamo. Henco tho 'O' In front. Nowl I that ho has reached the estate of a V promising leaguor this healthy colle- f gjan has decided to got right down toi ca80s und toll us his secret. From , now on ho will carry no eurplua letters, let-ters, regardless of tho fact that Hughle McGuiro and Eddlo Loachj-woro Loachj-woro awfully proud of that 'O' as a startor .,'Thero are n fow things that Dowd will havo to lenrn about shortstopplngl but on raw material ho Is well Bup-, piled. Ho bng a wonderful whip and' can throw from most any position. He Is abovo tho average on speed and-hits llko a veteran. H1b ono slight weakness Is In taking throws . at second and tagging out the run- , ners. Experience will cure him of r that." |