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Show I : What They Say DEL HOWARD. M Sam Agnew is given credit of being tf""" the ventriloquist of the Pacific Coast League clubs. Sam is also credited l With being the best receler in the circuit. He is with the San Francisco J Seals. Del Howard, manager of the Oakland club, gives Sam this eulogy: I (. ,rWhy,.yoa.can.hear Agnow shouting Bar . encouragement to his pltohersand teammates all during tho game. It doesn't make any differenco whether whether he is catching, sitting on the bench or working on the coaching lines, Agnow's voice can be heard abovo all others. He Is a wonderful man to have on a ball club. He makes his fellow players hue tie with him. He lends them .-'confidence. Nor does tho score make any difference with I him. His team can be away behind and Sam still has the same old spirit. I wish a -whole flock of players like Agnew would come into the Coast League. He is a credit to the game." PROFESSOR MENDEtL. While golf has been generally accepted ac-cepted as. a grand old game, yot it remains re-mains for Professor C. W. Mcndell of Yale to eulogize the Scottish pastime j In an unusual manner. He says: "The call for golf candidates should bring out every man who knows a putter from a driver and hasn't a brass-bound alibi. Golf, like tennis, offers more than the contest between Harvard or Princeton, and more the chance to win distinction in college sport It gives you the best possible start in a game you will be playing with the fresh hope of heating 'Colonel Bobey' when you are 80 years old. It Is a life-long friend a game, an ex-ervise, ex-ervise, recreation; in shoft, an all-around all-around sport." CHICK FEWSTER. While it was feared that Chick Fewsjter's career as a ball player would be upset by being hit with the "bean ball," the promising infielder of the Yankees is certain it won't Ho is out of the hospital now and a regular patron pa-tron at tho ball park in Baltimore whero he Is convalescing. Chick figures fig-ures it this way: "It will never happen again. I was unlucky, but I will not be afraid. When the curves come looping up I will b9 stepping right In to meet them, as I used to do. Baseball is my living, and nothing like an accident Is going to mnko mo quit 1 want to get going again and, most of all, I want to help the Yankees win a pennant." no |