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Show , . ' . S Grass-Chewing Title Also Goes To Spoke! i -V ' . it- 3tT TRJS SPEAtE& By LORRY K. JACOBS. i Many ball players chew long green while they are on the field, subject to nervous and mental strain, but Tris Bpeaker the gTeat director of the Cleveland Indians, doesn't. Spoke uses a substitute for tobacco that gtts the same results or perhaps better. Orasss that's the kind of I Chewing tobacco that hj relied on to help hlni think out the knotty problems prob-lems that won Cleveland's American league pennant and a world title, lit . f 1 1 1 OHPE1 l - Hughie Jennings used to pick i- isa in the c-oachcr's box in the staging of' hifl Eyah! Ty "em tv" yell. I Hut Tris has pot Hughie bcati n a country block in picking ,n' blades. H- has i Ik- gr.ix-o;itlng championship bound, gagged and tiel to the mast, i Trbt eats more grass during a base-; ball game than an elephant eats hay during a circus performance. SAVAGELY ( lll .W B. If you've ever watched the gTeat player-manager during a big leapue g.irne you know what 1 meant. Aft r nearly every play during the entire game Speakei SWOOPS down on ftn Inoffensive In-offensive blade of grays and savagely chews It up. That one Is no more than consumed until he attacks another one. 'f coumc, there 's a historical precedent pre-cedent for Speaker's work, for you remember the case of old Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchad-nezzar, don't you? '.'Id Neb went into the grass-eating business In a serious way. But, of course, Speaker isn't serious about it. ife sajs it's mere nervousness. I. WW BARBER. "I have to have sonic way of giving vent to my physical nervousness." savs he. "t am bo Intensely Interested in every play that I forget everything else and this grass eating has simply become a habit with me. I really believe be-lieve it would fo pretty tough for me LO hae to play on u field that didn't sport any lawn." And so it is that when Tris is coming com-ing to town the ball park lawn barbers put the old lawn mowers away for they know 'I rls will keep the green shaved off for them In good shape. |