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Show TRIS SPEAKER'S FIND -. Dixie Shortstop, Who Is Filling Chapman's Shoes, , Takes Kindly To Big League Pitching ! 1 1 BY BEAN SNYDER. Buying a ball player for his fielding jabillties and flmling that he Is also a nifty slugger, i-- the- luck of Trls 'Speaker. In his first few games as a regular with the Cleveland Indians .Joe Sewell is cutting as big a swath with his bat li.s he is wilh his shortstopplng With almost uncanny foresight Speakeil had already secured n op- Itlon on the nw Orleans player betore in.- Ray Chapman tr.egedy When the brilliant i levelahd shortstop was .ttruck elown Speaker puld the ivlleans n neat sum for an Immediate delivery of the Dixie pastlmer FIRST FLlXSH. i Sonic youngsters play over their heads the flr.-t few weeks when they first come up to the big show, but If Sewell can keep on doing it for a few I days more- he may be the cog that will cause the American Icaguo cloth to fly from the Cleveland flagpole The kid is slapping tno Ban Johnson John-son apple with as much confidence as he did the Lixie pellets. . Sewell Is a product of the University of Alabama baseball team. Me Is In the majors before completing his first, full year In the minors. DOBBS PICKED HIM I Johnny Dobbs. manager of the New irleans Pelicans, from whom Speaker I picked the peach) shortstop, says tii.nt Sj w II Is the bet player h-.- ever sent up to the big show and he is the gent who gave both Jim Bagb;, and Del Pratt their first passports to the big orchards. Dobbs was tipped off to the fact that Sewell was a promising player by Ward McDowell, former manager of the Birmingham City league. The youth was then playing on tiie varsity team at Tuscaloosa. Fl iv 81 R. W.erd tolel Dobbs that he had seen a pair of flashy players on the unl-erslt unl-erslt nine which he ought to get for the Pell The other player's name 1 v. as Stephenson Dobbs made a special spe-cial trip to Birmingham anel looketl the- lads ovei As soon as he set his e-es on them he opened up negoela-tlons negoela-tlons whie-h resulteel In his getting Sewell befor,- the competition of St. Louis and Philadelphia major league scouts had blocked the deal. Speakei secured an option on the ! oiingste-i while the Indians were training at cu Orleans Issl spring Herr' the Roiitheni li-ftiriie shorts . rev nil t who has hail a !; I " saddled sad-dled en hlfl shauldors and Is getting awoj with It, He 1 iof Bewell, who 1ms .t Ids chance In thr bin l-aciiee befon ' '.n-pb tint "lie full srasein In the ml-I ml-I iieirv Note thnt lie- lir. - wide awake- e- e - anil that he takes a erut at the ball whle h ;e(v results. ibut had not Intended to exercise It un- til this fall Stephenson, who Is Bew-1 ell s pal. will tret a trial with the ln- elians next year. LOOKS GOOD Mere's the? way Dobbs elescribs the work of the youngster since ho reported re-ported to him last April "I sent Sewell Into the game as soon as he reported uml he didn't miss a day until we sent him to Cleveland.) I Vorv soon I made, him a lead-off man, and 1 want to tell you that he Is one of the best lad-otf batters I ever saw. Me IS simply a marvel for a young-j ster. Me h. isn't a single weakness Other than one or two Utile things that i;in only be overcome" by experience, i .is for Instance, not looking every i time to see whether the ball is In the air or on the ground "Me has a baseball head and right now makes fewer mistakes than a great many good players who have been In the game a long time " CLK ELAND HERO. The youngster Is already receiving the plaudits of Cleveland fans and If the Indians crowd the Yanks and White Sox off the pennant gangplank the Dlxlo recruit will be the biggest hero In Ohio, regardless of who Is ceected to the White Mouse chair. Sewell is a sweet kid, but he's got 0 big role to play Still, he seems t o have the stuff which will make hash eut of Gleason's and Muggins' Octo-bei- hopes |