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Show This Brother Stuff Doesn't Worry I Johnston Boys From Tennessee Ry DEAN SNYDER There aro more hi league ball players who have brothers not play mg professional baseball than those wb.0 have Just because a COUplfl guys happen hap-pen Io have the same patents Is no sign they are going to lollov. ,ln same slam of earning a pile of uougb , Sometimes, however, this desire to emulate a big brother gels the results re-sults , In the thick of the fight lor pennants pen-nants this vcai a pair of brothers have played big parts The;, an the Johnston hi others from Dixie. NOT SENTIMENTAL Jimmy, iho yr.unger. and the oul .'elder whom Vour ncly, Wilbcit Blade over imo crackln' ood third sacker for the Superbas, would like nothing better than to play agalnsl first baseman of the brnvehearted Speain iic- Two brothers havi net Cl battled etch ot li i in r world searies. "Tell 'Doc' io get a bustle n i nn" la the word Jimmy has :oni over to the Indians' crimp this summer. ' Tell Jimmy vve'iv com ng In all j right" wda the word "I'oc" iired back. These (Wo Tenite.-see;i:i ; have both had a hard battle to reach tin; ell max of their live GOING IIP As barefoot boys Ihey played to-j getber, Jimmy, the younger, hap .pened to have the best ret of legs so he got his chance in organized ball two yean ahead of "Docy the elder Pcneverance aud a desire to follow fol-low his brother kept ' lioc" rom losing hearl and iin.nl bo gol nis chance. Jimmy's Initial trial In -he majors came in 1911 with the Chi eago Americans and "Hoc" rambled Idio Cleveland in HUl" Hoth have leen shifted around- to other clubs at vanous linns for further season ing. IJut 1920 has been the cream nu.'f year for both. f"t" led ihe American League in hitting earlv this .cason and he bats good and bad by sneaks now. He is the cul-up of ihe family. If Clove land has clown on the club, a in. "Chattanooga Hot" ;ets ihe jm ev. SAWS WOOD Jiinniv just saws wood and Mana ger Robinson figured he is cmart enough to play most an old position on his ball club. Bringing the sol'th erner into his infield department was the easiest thins in tile world, foi as soon as Jimmy go! the distant belvvie.i third ami lit i mca-.urid oil he played like a veteran. They have no sentimental feelings about battling each other IV .hey ,ir rait in against truh oihc-;- in the bic money series. "What's the diff" .says "Hoc "It's only a bBgeball game." ac cording io Jimmy. BROTHER STUFF The Cpveleskta brothers refused to play against inch other as rivals on different clubs. The O'Neills Steve of the Indians, and Jimmy ol " the N'aLs. have played against each other i his summer several times. i I Other baseball stars haVe had brothet in organized baseball Some ; i made good and some failed. Many boxers have brothers who aspired to : join the ranks of the main eventers. : but very few of them ever made the ' 'clip. Baseball ability seldom runs in families. Once in a great while It does, however. The present case of I Jimmy, the younger, and "Chatta-i:nooga "Chatta-i:nooga Doc" the elder, is one of , (those exceptions that crop out now!, 'and then |
