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Show BILLY FVANS When empire Billy Evans worked .behind the plate and saw Walter Mallsl i the SacramCnt" pitching recruit of i the Indiana, he opened his ev es In ! wonfar. Bin says l like Malls Immensely, not because; he showed me everything a pitcher should have, hut also baOgUgt tit didn't falter In the pinch He's a bird of a1 pitcher I have been umpiring In the American league since )90fi and I can'-recall can'-recall a better looking lefty breaking' Into 'be game in all that time. He's1 got th sll and ihr phytlQUS to ?t-a"nd a lot of work, haji a fast pal' that fairly burns the air a wonderful; burve, and a nice change of pace. And w hat I like best of all, s that he hasn't ' i one Of those long, phoney vvlnd-up-. thai doesn't mean anything "p hs 'the ball coming in to the batters be-' fore they can realize It has left hlsi hand- I'll venture to say that he'll bo one of the stars of the major leagues next ear." S M Hit E When Sam Ulce, star outfielder of' the N.Tt.s went up against Walter Malls1 for the first time, ho took a few Ua-B'mB Ua-B'mB In speed. Rice says: Say, but that bird showed mo a fast one th'- like of whloh I have not seen all season, and 1 have batted j against Williams and all the othei star left-handers. It came at mo ao fust 1 had lo hit In self-defense, andj 1 gues-v 1 missed some of them a foot, lie showed a world of stuff and the1 guts of a burglar and he'a going t bo a tower of stP-nKth to the Indians for years to come, else I'm away off I in mv reckoning 1 |