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Show TOUGH JOS 10 PICK BALL STUDS Man Who Discovered Tris Speaker Fails Down Miserably Mis-erably on Pair : Baseball magnates may pick up a real star occasionally and send him along to the big I league at a nice all his games, Xi, hous soemod to be unaD'.e to get started with tho Indians and went from had to worse. According to Tris Speaker, manager of the Clevclands. the case of Niehous Nie-hous offers something unusual for study from a psychological standpoint Was Niehous' failure In the American league due to too much advertising or was It du to the fact that h hurler was with a topnoteh club and worried himself into inconsistency? NIEHOUS A STAR. "N'lehou.s has a world of stuff and an excellent baseball brain," said Speaker. but with tho Indians his stuff seemed to lose its effectiveness and his control something that net er botherod him before was a BUb-Ject BUb-Ject for almost constant discussion Dick worked hard and is a fine chap for any club, but I am afraid ho took his worlc entirely too seriously and really fell a victim to .buck fever 1 Incidentally, the case of Niehous again shows the caprice of fortune in baseball affairs Cleveland gave st Paul Pitcher Frits Coumbe and' approximately 10,00u in cash for NIehOUS, and tho litter's showing was, really worse than that of Coumbe. whol was always considered on In ' and outer at best "Might as well pick 'em blindfolded.' salel the Indian boss ' Pitcher Malls, of the Sacramento club Is expected to aid Cleveland greatly In the closing weeks of the reason. profit but certainly none ot them can lilt a thousand when It comes to plck-ng plck-ng t th- good one, regularly. Dock w ?, ' 2Wner an'1 '""ager of the R8 Houston. T-x , L,a.,1( aneJ the man who discovered Tris Speaker of the Cleve .nd team, fell down miserably on a iou,e of youngsters this year 4t; . " h "J a lad ., ,,ne,l Jlarrls hurting for him. a Cleveland fS ' " ''own In V. cas rls work In a few games Thefan luK' H gested to Tris Speak, t thai he nutf scout on the kid's trail because he Vffi looked like a comer. Soeafc ooiner ubOUt the Gcntlt but l, Roberts very weil hc , h " I on owner for an opinion on Harris" I Roberts replied immediate that Har - - ssssssi fris would not do for the' Oi,.J, . Club. Connie Mack li , SL?land hd the kid has w,, , . fHarr'S UP for the Athletic? KS 0st of all he sixes up ,,ke u' Ca- bt I Roberts will begin to hink h i knows nothing about players i He h Poss Young, now with ih , 1 h:"J attached the hard wa e t thT, aKnd cause he thought roun wi? ! d be" boneh. ad and had o , 0 1 nutur'll .now w.th Cincinnati v ; . P.lor' like a piece of cheese 'ef 'oked , so Roberts shipped h.m o v,HU3ton' for J300 Cincinnati Shreveport 7r00u f,,r Xaple" tH tCently Pid have mu,h better thLh2 ??.ei" to I chance to become . .SS ? flft -fifty I the National shining light In wo?kaonr ST ruober Ha"' Cleveland team recantiJ?8 th hurled such good b-.i ' ?he kid tured to Cunnt iCk ni'P?kt'r v?n" him. When he was in? a "n? " - th boj Robert. ,med lL" " ood and looked at the I ,1'.' ' ' '"N just clectrlfb d "it s. r,-. . ad as 'hough after il sneb a" e"' 1 i Wood m reiaung the piV,ur lol(J Jo erts admits he Wa, J? c,dfnt- Rob- diagnosis, and Speaker & h, Houston manager Sieves tho |