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Show j COME BACKS ON TWIRLING STAFF 'King" Cole and "Dade" Criss to Play With New York Yankees. If "King" Cole and "Dode" Criss are ; able to "fome back" the waj their friends think they can, the New York ! Yankees will hav,-. an excellent twirl-I twirl-I .ins staff next season They hive both played big league, failed, one to .V the bush, and now return to the big I fellows. Cole looks very ood from his rec-Hord rec-Hord In fast minqr leagues. Cole led the National league In 1910 and last i: J'par Ton twenty-seven and lost Bve games for Columbus Uls form was better than that displayed In Chicago j. three years ago. Frnnk Parrel secured se-cured him by draft from Columl us Several blr league clubs tik-d to ' buy him before Hie drafting s:is..n. offering as lvgh ns $10. m o. Colujn bus hooked up In a thrilling pennant struggle. iould not afford to soil. He-fore He-fore Cole's fate was decided hv lot. Gam Herrmann announced thai h. r would ghe jin.nofi to tho lucky club owner. If he failed to win the prize. I'The offer still goes, says Garry. t- Criss worked with Houston, Te., 'during the 191.1 season winning twen-jr twen-jr tysix ganios and losing only six. He i.t . avpragpd a little over one pass per I ! feame and hit only Beven batsmen Tevas raved over bis work Rilly Mur- I ray, the Pittsburg scout, v ho took a ; slant at "Dode" last summer. iF very I. loud in his Indorsement, of that voting nan. "If he can show the stuff un here J he showed down there." said Murray j csterday, "he'll do all right. He has a world of speed and th? prettiest drop curve I ever saw And with It all he has control." The last Is Criss' best recoinraenda tion. He writ to the St. Louis Browns several years ago as a pitcher, but l in two years be worked in only one full game. He simply rnnlri not pul the ball over the pan. But be packed ! a terrific wallop and was retained as II a p mn hitter |