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Show I Wallie PiDD. ! By NORMAN E. BROWN. j If variety still is the spice of life, Wallie Pipp can bo called one of the spiciest hitter in the big show, in addition, ad-dition, to being a fairly good homerun cloutor. Wallle's first four hits in the 1920 campaign consisted of a homerun, single, sin-gle, double and triple In the ordor named. That's the maximum in variety, va-riety, we'd say. Plpp's homer was u mado off Scott Perry of the Mack-men 'in the opener. Later In the game he got a single. Next day he nicked Nay-lor Nay-lor for a double and the next time up kicked in with a triple All of which will bo doubly interesting interest-ing to fans in Grand Rapids , Mich., for that's where Wallie hails from. Ho was born there in 1903. Tho Detroit Tigers had a string on . him from Aug. 29 1912 when they purchased pur-chased him from Kalamazoo until they sent him to Now York at tho waiver price, Jan. 7, 1915, to help bolster up the New York club. Between those two dates Pipp saw service with Providence, Prov-idence, Scranton and Rochester at tho end of said string. With tho Yanks he led the league in homeruns in 1916 and 1917 although he didn't break into the .300 hitting list until 1918 when ho batted at a 3.04 gait. He is a valuable member of the present pres-ent wrecking crow of the Yanks which i Miller Hugglns thinks can slam Its way to a pennant despite other shortcomings short-comings of the team. Hug is Bweet , on Pipp as a first baseman, too, break-I break-I ing into print a couple of years age lu- with the statement that Pi.pp was the best first sacker in the game, Chase, Mclnnls and Slsler not excepted. . oo |