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Show ' ! New Star Hits Big League White Way ; BY DEAN SNYDER. What a southpaw he is this Waller Mails, the Pacific coast special delivery deliv-ery package which Tils Speaker ha-added ha-added to his pennant fighting bra Cleveland at last has a lefty who fit? imo tho pitching staff of the Jim Bagby-Stanley Coveleskle & Co like ft postage stamp fits tho upper right hand corner of an envelope. He hasn't taken a licking yet. Manager Spoke showed him off on Labor day against the Browns. Jimmy Burke'? BWatters gleaned a coupla I runs off him, but the Indians salvaged seven. His next turn came against Tonnlo Mack's kids. He also made them look foolish and turned in a 5 to 2 victory for the Itedslkns. GREAT HEART. On the third start Mails was righter than a rabbit. He blanked the Nats 1 to 0. That game stamped him as one Of the- best lefthand pitchers that has jevcr been dropped into the big league I mail sack. To win against the Washington club I he was opposing a pitcher in Zachary, jwho was making the Indians wave ( their shillalahs in vain. He was called upon to show a great heart, a lot of brains and a shoot that had a little something extra on its zig Izag. HAS THE HOP Such cr.tlc-, a.s Umpire Billy Evans, j Jimmy McAleer and Hughey Duffy say ! that the Sacramento recruit has the , most stuff they have looked over since ithe days of Doc White, Rube Waddell and Eddie Plank. He has so much speed that the ball burns through the air with an odd hop at the finish. He will win more games. That is a pipe. The Indians only need a fen , more to canter home to the- tape. With i Bagby and Covey still holding up under j the terrific strain which they have been under all summer the new comer Is tho big cheese at the Indians' ban-,quet. ban-,quet. HE'S CHATTY. Personally Mails has a big physique, capable ol standing a lot of work. He is very sociable, too They called him I "Chatty" Mails out west. He Is keen to be on a pennant win-1 win-1 ning team so that he can rub It on j Your Uncle Wilbert Robinson in the : world's series. Robbie had him once. ! but mistook him for a poor postal card and mailed him back to the coast. I Mails has hit the calcium lights In JjPjBl li jtj ft v r.n opportune time. He will play a ble ' part in tho Indians' war dances the next few days The coaster is the latest star to hit' the big league white, and. folks, he is 1 sure burning a bright little trail |