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Show Huggins Still Upsetting Dope I fx 1 L ; - 5 I f f J f l 1 Hugglns and Hornsby, Former Master and Pupil. Miller nugglns has brought the New I York Yankees to the top of the American Amer-ican league playing heap four times since he Joined the club as manager In 1910. Twice the team ran third under his management ; once It finished fin-ished fourth, the first year that he was at the helm, and last year It bogged down to seventh place when the team cracked and crumbled from sheer old age. The feat of bringing the Tanks back to a pennant from a seventh-place club In one season might establish Miller Hugglns as a miracle man. But the Yankee pilot Is still plain Mister Hugglns who alts back In the dugout and simply manages. Hugglns eschews the limelight; Is rarely seen on the coaching line and, as he seldom talks for publication, baseball funs know little of him. When things go wrong Hugglns gets the blame; otherwise the credit goes to Babe Ruth & Co. Hugglns Is a student of baseball. Small of stature, he made his mark as a smart bull player when he made his debut with the St Paul club In 1901. Three years later Hugglns found himself with Cincinnati, his home town, where he remained until 1910, playing second base. Traded In 1910 to St. Louis, Hugglns four years later succeeded Roper Kresnuhan as manager of the Cardinals. He Developed Horntby. His success with second-rate ball players was the talk for years In the National league circuit where he twice brought his club up to third place. It was while Hugglns managed St Louis that Rogers Hornsby came to the club, a youngster from a Texas town.' Hugglns saw at once that ha had a star In embryo. He personally corrected Hornshy's bnttlng stance and saw the young Texan rise to baseball stardom under bis own guidance. Hugglns this year confounded the experts. Few picked the Yankees to Bnlsh even In the first division. Two holes In the infield to be plugged up, shortstop and second base, arul with a rookie first baseman with less than a year's experience, the task for the midget Miller looked hopeless. |