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Show 1 1 TivTPj Q Drivj& g iBY BfLLY MURPHY Sam Crawford hits them harder fhan anybody in the game. There Is no doubt whatever of that. He has played some fifteen years In the Big Leagues and participated In over 1.500 tames. This Is his seventeenth season in baseball his fifteenth season in the Bis Show and out of the seventeen sev-enteen years he has served to date ho has established a- msrk above .300 on no less than twelve occasions. occa-sions. And when the Tigers started their early drive to the front in budding May, Crawford was the main factor in the uplift, with a mark above 420, leading his circuit a dozen leagues in extra-bise wallops. wal-lops. Not forgetting to mention that Crawford crashes into a baseball harder than any rival in the gam not barring Frank Baker, Joe Jackson, Hans Wagner, Cactus Cra vath, Sherwood Magee, Ty Cobb, or Trl6 Speaker. On top of all this we reserve for the last the most eminent boost of all in these latter das of fragile talent in the last ten years Crawford Craw-ford has stood to the guns In 1 500 battles an 'average of 150 games a season or less than half a week's absence from April to October. Which, after all, is the crowning test of value to a club. Meredith Davis paid Crawford a pretty compliment the other day when he wrote: "Crawford never saw a professional profes-sional game of ball until he played in one himself, evidently believing the best way to enjoy the diamond sport was to mix in the swim himself. him-self. And ever since then Sam has been doing quite a considerable amount of mixing, speaking by and large, during the feveral tlmvs a day he takes' a swing at the ball. Of course Sam had foiled around with a couple of semi-pro teams In his native Canada before taking thinsrs seriously. This gave him a suspicion that if he could cros the horder he might show up some of those Yankee guys who have a habit of making loud noises along about the Fourth day i f July by way of gloating over their forefather's forefa-ther's victory in the world series with Sam's mother country. Sam was a true Briton. a loyal son of the ight Utile isle, though born some distance from the maternal roof of Lunnon town If Sam had been like some other l-all plavers we have seen and heard he might never have been able to set down from Canada into the Tnlted States without having oaid tariff duties You see Sam Immigrated Immi-grated when the tariff on lumber was a right sizeable item of expense, ex-pense, but the customs Inspector failed to discover any dutiable goods f,f a mahogany nature when he asked Sam to take off hip hat a moment. mo-ment. So In came the future fence tickler. The hip league rareer of 5am ha been chiefly confined to his labors for the Detroit club, said labors consisting of collecting a matter of anywhere around r.00 and upward as a letting: average, year In and year out. Considering the fact that Sam has been staring at such daz-rling daz-rling mound stars as Ed "Walsh, nube Waddell. Ja. k Coombs. Walter Wal-ter Johnson, Plank, Bender. Joe Wood. Chesbro, Falkenberg, Ford, Quinn and others at various and freuuent stages of his waking moments mo-ments he needn't he blamed If he does a little pointing with pride once In a while when the averages are published. Sam's leap from obscurlt,- on a Canadian backwoods team to the frotlt rank of United States artillery regulan has gone down In athletic j achievements ac one ( the g-,.,-,r lw ' jrya For the last seven years, however. flKfESvi'fiii 4&tt& y Sam has been obliged to pla i I flu BBjftt ?5 ?1$5t3j, Wjftjjjfr, the Georgian's frequent solo work 5;-v..1 f JB8 BSaaBBfi hasn't dulled the resonant tone's of flfl mmma u'Cwtf 't; 'wBBuSffiatfc Wahoo Sam's wagon tongue smash- Jm ing the pill w here A. Spalding plant- vSBttttLm And now they say Sam "rawford, 3 RSmSPv ' -jjS '&&l'Sl6'r!. the '.-TaRt twilight of his baseball life; that , BgL, IrajfM he is in the evening of his career. ' itjoISb itaaHli rtK fiwrijlMifl SB But we rise to remark after scan- mBBJBtSsBSiShMmM dnrt AKBHB nlng this season's record, that it's M8BBBfij8Kff.E!lB!r .BBrrtSH going to even- mwSSi3SSBK$ hSHBIHH Mfr I ": iSSSmk '::i:if::v Strange, but True. HggM :. 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