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Show Castoffs Vho Refuse To Be Put Out j bi di w ii n ' There's always B lot Of good tiase-hal tiase-hal lefl in .. t.isioff if ju. geis hack ' hlft laj mg ; piril . j Put a buncli cf then together and If they become a family Instead of splitting Into cliques they'll traei The present Dodgers furnish uic glowing example of such Yet the National League pennant has been won by teams made up mainly of i:s-cards i:s-cards from other clubs for the past "lx years with the exception Of II 1 7 1 OM1 B KS i Whether It ;s the taunt of being discard or the changed environments that bring old ars who are slipping hack to form Is bard to fisure. Moth of tbeas elements may enter Into the comeback reversal. Itlg Bd KonS.tChy was considered Op his last stretch ag a first baseman when Brooklyn took him over from Boston This Is his thirteenth year . in the bijr jaagiies. But Kd has played the bey! game of his Career for the Robins. He put more Into bis ball-playinB thun he had 1 done for either Boston. Pittsburg or St. Louts 111 - 1 1 . 1 . I Hustling has mad. him B big fa. tor : In the Flat bush machine, which !ias showed the way in the Heydler circuit ,thls ear. He refused lo accept himself him-self as a caatoff. Catcher Otto Miller is another of the I Kobln oldster who was deemed j through this year. He has been with Brooklyn for eleven years. Manager I Robinson had planned to use him as I coach Rowdv lllot and Brnle Krueger were figured to be the working pad-dlsts pad-dlsts of the team. Rubble began to pair his catchers off with members of ills great pitching staff. Miller caught a game now and then, but he got good results in all hl starts, and. t.efore long, he was doing the whole shift. M s M' Pete Kitduff waa excess baggage to the Cuba But he's snapping Into' It for the Trollev Dodger- i . land let Ivan Olson go. Cincinnati eased him off to Squire Kbt.ets as aj misfit But Ivy figures high In the' Dodgers' showing at present Jlmmv Johnston has ben shifted around In both the American and Ma-1 tlonal leagues until he's landed goo ' and solid. He's auch a smart ball ' player that Robbie converted hirn j from an outfleld'r ln'.o a third hase-j ! man Rube Marquard waa picked up by way of the weHer roots from the Olan's In .1011, He helped Brookly n win the pennant the next year and I he has repeated again v k I PI tM Clarence Mitchell bas been the1 j ronnds In hoth leaguea. Chuck Wrd I William McCube. Ernie Krueger. Row-1 d BlllOt and William Lamar have all B teen service on other major league BBff 1 IssHS nrooklyn has found that scrap Iroa HaaWsl la bettei 1 nan m wly. forged steel If II gained on different clubs has made BB93 ICour 1 im le Wllbt 1 1 his w- ld 1 J them Into an organization that bus- BsiBSI tl I An. I hustling will win ball BFB 'games. It will win p.nants and Ks'Vs , It may win a world series for him bU ' Call them 1 t f t dla arda, mi 1 1 , or has-beens, or what yo will, but .Hti' I they make the hardest type of a ball BUiBii to B |