Show FEY FEW SOUTHPAWS fOR BASEBAll Major Leaguers Comb the Minors to Secure First Class BY fly GEORGE cn COP rIght 1923 By The Th Standard Standard Examiner ExamIner NEW YORK reb If to-If 10 It you will w take ta a little ramble do down doin 0 the th base base- baseball baseball baseball ball alley and note some omo of the prep prep- preparations preparations that are aro being made mado for tor the tho season of ot 1923 If 23 you will II be bo surprised by the tremendous In the tho eon concern cern of ot South Paws limited That is just what they limited are arc That is why l there Is so o much activity itt In the showroom room and in the backstop Managers are seized by an of south sou Lots Lot's begin with lh the champions There are the tho Giants for tor example around round to annex I a left hand pitcher who iho ho is Js not a high as cla class ls pitcher by any means but who Is II a n southpaw The rhe Giants arc are not ot 0 d with Ith southpaws s because Nehl Nehf Is running up the th sunset trail Bentle Bentley this Baltimore Hercules not only can pitch with his hid left hand but butha ho ha can bat liko like a Penns l h lani ani Dutch dalr maid mald churnInG butter and if he be falter when hen ben asked to stem the tho tide with his curses curies ho lie might rout the other side by bat batting ling out DUt a II home home- I tun un a his 0 own n is e posing c a southpaws southpaw's pIcture In his hand hand It had llad been told Huggins and the board of ot strategy that sits lilts with stith him Including the low counsellor and the th high counsellor counsello Hugginsh that he h needed a southpaw Huggins h had d Ideas of hIs Ills 0 own n about that and he also had prejudice to 0 el 1 time lImo In his baseball experience that be b had a II southpaw v he ha h w sas baffled much of o the season by the e na nary y convel draught around tEam Howe er HuggIns responded to th tho camor It t may have been that circulated so freely an and he hal has Pen Pen- Pen nock flock u a southpaw at last The Boston Americans Americana are ar not 51 s valorously In the hunt for tor a 0 but they will 1111 take tak in tile the Pitching Hue flue whether hether It Is Js nOI th or south They might take ta een even e en a Ii west paw pa or even an Ln east paw If it there ther was one on In sight COOSEY COOEY SIGNED The BotO Boston Nationals have hav gone ono Into the southpaw hunt and have picked plc up Cooney who can pitch well wellon wellon wellon on days when the th sun un is 14 I In and not so well when hen It Is In the th soup Washington WuI W WL L has that wll t It thinks think to tobe tob bs be a well osell ell seasoned southpaw In Mo- Mo Mo The Th seasoning Is i good food and the young man haj pitched some omo e ex excellent games tames but Washington needs heeds more than pitchers rhe Th rhe Athletics would parade around round Independence Hall If It they could find a second 1 and while th they y have hav Helma-ch Helma some om soothsayers have bAve li vc been ben telling to 10 try to be bo an outfIelder because h he heis Is too good tood a batter baIter to dry up on the tho pitchIng plate plat American The Tn Phillies P like the Boston Amer- Amer Amer mer- mer ican ue are ar open op n to donations ons and care carnot not on which Bide aide id the th line may form It If only the tho th fates fate will send lend them some louse thing something thine Pittsburgh believes believe that thai It has two of the th best in the th circle In Cooper and Hamilton but each ach of them i Is a hear ear c r older than In au 1922 and It celebrated was wax Some seine som time tim ago afo that they cele cole their first birthday In baseball The Tb Chicago White Whit Sox Sox- hav bava Lever Lever- Leverenz Leverenz L vor-enz vor I enz on whom they thoy hey have hav pinned theIr faith as 8 a the th tidy Is Is pinned to the th old splint bottomed bottom d rocker The Th Bro have Pruett whoa future grows ow n-ow rosIer and roiser as Lee Leo Fohl and Bobby Quinn ont nue to put red glass flux In tn the wIndow where wh re th the old panes have bay been broken out REDS ALSO ACTIVE Cincinnati Is wavering M as to whether to claim the th pennant at once one on the strength of leading all 11 loft left h banders In 1923 1921 and nd up In Detroit they wake up now and then th n with a happy smile mil as aa tey think thai that s inas ina ma Into a formIdable Kit band l left hand 1 i J I pitcher r with such a team behind him Brooklyn hM has ha Ruether Ruth r but Brooklyn lyn doesn't T know whether to laugh or cry over it If Its ball team tam Cleveland will try Sherry Brooklyn anti and If Smith possessed possess the th WInnIng temper temper- temperament temperament ament how bow he h would scoot coot down own the pIke Zachary of ot W In ton may turn t Into Into-i successful ucc and ond dependable mixer of curves this year y r The rhe Th point of the tho whole thIng thine Is that the nan a tw haie e discovered dl cov rd l facing tho the pItching situation for tor t C years that the tir curve ball pitcher pitchers art are ar s their f future ture hope hone hoD for tor success SU CI t |