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Show ' j StufTyMcInnU j By NORMAN1 E. BROWN rtm Stuffy Mclnnis. veteran first sack- K ors, is one of tho few stars of baseball 1 WM ' who have onc trough season after jlm season without being asked by the K umpire to rest a while because of 3jjJt . too much harsh language or a hasty ' L punch. Stuffy never has been ordered j from a game. This doesn't mean that -J'j ho has lacked pep. ginger, spirit or l whatever you want to call it. It means instead, that he has devoted his energy V to Playing tho game battling for his - V toanf. He has appreciated the fact fj J - thaht he Isn't hired to criticise the umpa, try to run that bird's business r' or chastise him for mistakes. :-t V' When It la considered that Stuffy . .; ; has been in the big show eleven vears this will bo his twelfth this is some record.' r Mclnnis. is .one of Connie Mack's famous kindergarten lads. He was Playing with the Gloucester, Mass., high school when Connie first looked him over. He left there In 1907 and got what llttlo Unor league training ho needed with New Bedford anrl Haverhill In the New England league' in 10S, going to the Athetlcs in 1903. Stuffy broke into nineteen games that ,seaaorf and payed short in thirty-eight K games the following year. In 1911 he took his place first In Connie Mack's jfc great infield which came to be known i" . as the 5100,000 quartet that was in . the days When $100,000 meant quite a v few steaks or eggs. Mclnnis took his place among the .300 hitters early . batting .301 the yoar he played short! He stuck in tho charmed circle slx years and then, after dropping to .295 ' v. in climbed baok to .303 his last - .- year at tho Quaker city. Hc was one L. f of the last members of the famous . pennant-winning outfit to be turned y ,r loose by Connie. Tho tall leader prac- rO tically gave Mclnnis to tho Red Sox l- !.- January 10, 1918 just in time to let ' " ' , ,6teP, ,nt0 anothcr flag-copping combination. He played an impor-, impor-, tant part . In the winning of the league race and world's aeries by the Sox He had broken Into four series with i Mack, those of 1910-11-13-14. |