Show 4 I I Shoots Shoots at Flock of Decoy Ducks Misses Only Live Bird in Bunch BY BILLY rv EVANS S A-S Next to baseball Eddie Eddia Collins of the th White Whit Sox recently mentioned as aa the th probable mana- mana mana-er mana ger er of ot the th Washington Nationals National likes like shooting Collins Isn tan t so no strong for tor the th big ble game ram stuff tuft and prefers bird shooting Just at present Collins Is I In the tho wilds of ot Maine with Bob Shawkey and sc SOT oral eral other players who rho lean leanto leanto leanto to shooting as a a winter sport It may just have happened but It Jq id a bit of ot coincidence that th the day the wire wired carried the th report that Collins might manage rn n r W Washington next year he departed on a n hunting i i trip As a result no one on h hn been lable able to get the tho vien s Ie of ot Collins Colllns on the subject Chief Bender Bendor one ot of the tho pitchers of ot all time who finished the 1923 1823 season with Ith Baltimore In Inthe inthe the International League Is one ot of the bet best hots shot In the thO country Chief prides himself on his ability to bring brInK em cm down when he pulls pull tile the trigger They do say ay that Chief s aim with the tho gun Is even better than his M control as a pitch pitcher or That Thatis I is something for Chief sure sura ur could get ft them over Colllns CollIns and Bender Dender hove have been pertness partners on many a hunting trip Eddie Eddlo tells this thi story at the th ot of the tho th Chief and Bender who nho Is rather touchy on the tha question In- In In Insist that Eddie Eddio Is I just kidding kidding- On one on or of o their hunting expeditions lions so o the th story goes roes Chief spied a flock of ot ducks duck At the th opportune moment ho h blazed awa away To his great rat delight only on ono one duck took to The rhe Chief woe WUl wa po that he had made mado mad a killing and started I to brag bra r about It Heesen He Ho e ien en express expressed led ed regret that eVen ven one on of or the I ducks had gotten often away Collins Colllns w was wa almost a ci s enthused a Bender since he was wa not In on the joke jOIe Jok The Th pair hastened to the spot expecting to bag enough ducks to last out the th ear Upon reaching the th flock It li iq easy to imagine Benders Bender's disgust ll u s-u t when he disco ered that he had hail fIred tired Into a bunch bunch of or decoS and the th only real duck In the th flock nock had gotten otten away Collins Colllns got sot n a bl bit big laugh lauch out or of the situation while Bender profaned ed ad Eddie Eddlo Insists It if the tho th Chief ChI C had bad ever used such BUch uch language on an anI I American League Leacu umpire as a he h did didon didon on the tho ducks President Johnson would hate hae ha e suspended ed him tor for life lite lit It so o happened that a friend ot of Benders Bender's who knew how touchy s Bender Dender was on his hi shooting ability planted the th decoy to put one 0 oser er on the ChIef I It worked out great real |