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Show One of the most valuable hall play-, ers In the American league is Stanley: Harris o, the Washington club. Harris i a modest young man who j dotiu't slut his own pratassi He simply sim-ply performs deeds. A great many players have broken Into print of toner than Karris. : few of the younger players in tb-j American league have a brighter fu-! ture. Stanley Harris Is unquestionably the logical successor to Eddie folllne as! tho prcmh r second Backer of the Am -1 crican league. Harris is the winning type of ball player. He never c,::. Ho Is con- stantl3 ursine '! teammates to great-ir, etforts, n. has great ability. He can thinH. During a series at Washington las-,:' summer, lri which Chicago was the j contending team, it was possible to get a line un iv.nins and Harris. . . In one of the games of the series, j theoo two great players turned in the I best bit of second play I have seen in years. Collins was at his best that day. Ho made several plays that only a quick thinking experienced player could put over. The following day one of tho Was7i-ington Was7i-ington critics praised the work of boh players highly. Collins was given a flight edge simply on tho way ho made a certain play and succeeded, and Harris, making the same plav failed. This was the play. There was B fast runm-r on first. The batter bit a grounder to Collin Ho goi iho ball I directly ahead of the runner gi In to second He forced him b k In t direction of first 'he;i em ,lv ball Co I the first baseman., retiring the batter. bat-ter. The runner, caught between first I and second, immediately dashed for! second, a throw from the First baser man retired blnduat that liasc. It was really the only w. posslblo to get i double play becaUs.i of the Bpoed of; both runners. m A little later the same play came up with Karris. He tried to malic tho play as did Collins, but allov CO the runner to over play him, Thu batter reached flt in safety, and in thv run up sonir one dropped tho ball and the runner ou firet alo reached second In safety. The nezi da; sitting on the Washington Wash-ington bench, Harris brought up the play. He said It was the hardest play in baseball lor him to make, as II was difficult for him to decide Just when he should make the throw j to first, after having forced the other runner back In the direction of first. m m "Collins never fails to get one man." fald Harris, and usually he I gets both. However, I II get that piuy down pat one of thes days Tic fol-lOWing fol-lOWing week I saw Harris make tho play perfectly twice, each time getting get-ting n double play. Harris can think. |