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Show " ili I 'UNCLE ROBBIE . 4 zz&y l n DK w Sin! ii R. It isn't likely they'll ever call Wil-I bert Koblnson a. miracle man. For who ever hctuu of fal mir-ii mir-ii li Hut those two adjectives ilt the Jolly old leader of the Brooklyn Trolley Trol-ley Uodgers like frosting fits cake. 1 Uncle Hobble has come -ibout ns near turning "water into wine " as the next one. With a ball club made up mainly of caatoffs from other big league teams he has put on the main: sketch in John Heydler's vaudeville circuit this summer. And the particular biand of hokum which he uses Is no newer than the principles of the humble Xazarcno. 1TS 'KM OJi H 1CH His working principle Is that kind: words and encouragement will shell out results from players where the whip will only drive them back to the minors or out of baseball entirely. I He pats his athletes on the back so much that most of them wear shoulder pads. Ciood nature hangs on his f.-tce so thick ihni he's got smlle-llnes around his eyes and a double chin above his collar. v Brery day. all season long, he has poured out his ointment of kindness. Infectious stuff. It is. loo The outfit out-fit is not a machine but a fnmil with Uncle Hobble sitting at the head of the table. The percentages show he lias done a neat Job of carving the pennant turkey. llol.ps PI P si -smw Befon- each game he disappears Into the clubhouse, followed by his boys. The same subject pops up at every se-jcret se-jcret conclave. He tells them that they can outfight the battling Giants and (outplay the cocky Keds. and that they've got the stuff In then bats to! make .my pitch! living cur) up and i retreut to the showers He rattles off a little baseball strategy here und there about how they an elog up the! scoreboard with runs, They take ev-1 cry word he tells them for gospel truth. As a result the Doduets go out on the field and outdo themselves in their desire to win. They don't always come out In front but a mistake doesn't rile Uncle Hob-ble Hob-ble sny more than to the extent of a fatherly pat on the back and the hearing words of "Better luck tonior-' row." There are 27 players on the Brook-lyn Brook-lyn rosier. Only nine of thoni can( play ai o time. The other 18 sli In the dugout and play the role of bent b managers. They yell for Robbie to van It a pitcher or a player They give! him all kinds of advice. s ; oi l) i low But Bobble is a wise old fellow Back of his smile Is a rich lore of baseball base-ball experience, both as a player and manager. His decisions are right so often that the boys look upon him afl being almost uncanny in Juggling hln pitchers and players in the pinches That's Uncle Bobble and his baseball base-ball cie-il. It cood nature was gold he'd own a palace on New York's exclusive Fifth avenue, a summer home on Long 'Island and liae a bank, account bigger ithan Ponzl's bubble. I The gn ut democratic Jockey of the Dodgers Iiils put a smile luto baseball 'and cashed in on It. The players all love him I-'latbush fans adore him And. is It any wonder. for Uncle I Robbie Is Just one of the boys? |