Show I Third Base Is Weak Spot on Browns j t t a p f- f 11 1 r b Y 0 f t tr r f Y ai co CHARLEY CHIRLEY DEAL L By Dy SEt XI flee ST LOUIS Jan 1 Third Third bass basI must be bo fortified If It the St Louis Browns are to be a pennant contender In 1923 Bobby Dobby Quinn who runs the tho Browns for tor Phil Ball and Lee Fohl who docs does the managing are well aware of ot that fact tact Frank Ellerbe filled the po very acceptably last season until I I forced to retire because o of an Injury to his knee It later developed tl tI at ata trouble was merely a II return of an Injury suffered playing football during his college das dais do II III three months Ellerbe nurse nursed I I tho knee back bacI into condition but In all it If ll i slow him up considerably The fhe heads of ot the Browns Dron on that assumption In working are aro feeling ll that t thIrd 1 V base Is tl the one po- po position position A- A on the team that is not up to toI snuff mutt I The Tho veteran Eddie Iddle roster who filled In so brilliantly says there Isn t tI ta ta ta a chance that he le will 11 try to pIa play the I bag roster Insists his legs simply will II not stand up lip under the strain Rumor has it that the Browns are dickering with the Los Angeles team the Pacific Coast league for tor Charley Deal Last Lost season Deal had a better fielding average in the Coast league lealue that Willie Kamm for tor whom Chicago Is reported to have paid lis I Deal has had major league league experience XaI ence In both bolh the American and Xa- Xa Na National leagues and would be a 0 lalu- lalu alu- alu able man tot foi the tha Bro Browns Brons ns to ha hae ha late e around |