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Show JENNINGS FAVORS "SORREL TOPS" ON TIGER ROSTER; WHY? OWN HAIR'S RED ssa i GulfPort, Miss In the, training camp of the Detroit Tigers there Is to be found the quintessence of red-headfam, red-headfam, the paradise of sorrel tops, the eden of auburn-haired, ambitious young ballplayers. Here come all who are rusty-locked a"d despised of mankind man-kind In the opinion of Ilughie .len-nincs. .len-nincs. blessed are those who are rub-escent rub-escent of hirsute adornment, for they shall inherit tho kingdom of big league baseball. All this goes to say that the manager man-ager of the Tigers, a peppery man, fiery both of hair and disposition, hns in his heart a large, soft spot for red. .haired ball players. Himself of that I much-abused class of sorreltops, he yearn 0 with all the suppressed ardor or an otherwise bitter soul for the companionship of those. who like himself, in childhood days have been called "Pinky ' and "Carrots." He is mindful of tho momentotii fact that many of those who have made world histon Queen Elizabeth, Cleopatra, Hnghle lenninirs. Alexander Alexan-der the Great, and Napoleon, were red-heads, and that some of his best ball plaers In the past have had that ame distinction Terry Downs, "Red" Klllifer, and Jim Delehanty were possessed pos-sessed of flaming skypleces |