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Show SPEED IS CHIEF ASSET OF NEW ST. LOUIS STAR Recruit Goes Thirteen Innings Against Pirates in Big League Premier and Wins Home With Cardinal Fans; Has Change of Pace. Intcimntionnl News Staff Corrc. c By OEOKGE Tj. BRTCKI3R International News Service Staff Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 5. Once upon a tlmo a wise old stork brougiit a trouncing boy to an Ohio farmhousa They named him Jesse, the rest of it being Haines. If that stork is alive today he must be a proud olid bird for Jesse Haines of the St. Loui3 Cardinals in this fight for the National Na-tional League bunting-. Haines, with a starboard delivery that Is rated as marvelous in speed and change of pace, has won himself a berth with the Cards. Showing up In remarkable form during the spring training, Haines went Into the fourth game of the season for the Cards and pitched thirteen innings oC superb ball against the Pirates. The Cards lost tho game, but that didn't detract from Haines' scintillation, for he struck out five and failed to walk a man In the entire thirteen sessions And It was his premier big show performance. per-formance. Haines came to the Cards from Kansas City, where joining tho Amorlcan association club in Juno of last'year he won twenty games and suffered but five defeats. Some time In the now dim past, he hurled good ball for the Topeka club of the West- JESSE HAINES. Icrn League, but that was soon after he broke away from the farm down in Ohio. J Haines' value lies in his rapid change of pace and terrific speed. Ho j hasn't any revolutionary curves or ! secret processes of dishing 'em up, I but ohl boy! a French 75 wouldn't appear to have so much on his shots j for speed. j Card wiseacres predict he will win : at least twenty games this season. |