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Show YOUNG. PRUETT HAS 'FADE-AWAY' Former College Pitcher With Browns Believed Remarkable ma i, ST. LOUIS. Mo June 17 Hubert "Shucks" Pruett, 21 -year-old Unlver-'slty Unlver-'slty of Missouri pitcher for the St. Louie Browne possesses the famous "fade-away" bail th.a made Christy Mathewson the world's greatest pitch - er, according to Lee Fohl manager of the Browns. Manager Fohl said ho bellovcd that ; Pruett s "fade-away" seemed superior super-ior to that of thc old master." be-i be-i cause Shucks" throws w ith his left hand "Matty" was a right handcr which gives thc ball a peculiar reverso ; tw 1st. FAN'S BABE RUTH i Pruett's ' fade-away" hos been highly high-ly successful this year against tho : heavv hitting of the Yankees "Shucks has fanned Babe Ruth five times and walkod him once in six times at bat. i He d " ' ankeea hero In one fame Of the last series, holding them to six hits. Two vears ago "Shucks' applied to the Browns for a try-out. but he received re-ceived this answer: "We cannot use kids." He was sent to thc Tulsa team of the Western league and this spring the Browns gn e him the coveted trial. Now, Fohl says he Is one of the finds" of the season. TO CONTINUE STUDIES The kid's got the fade-away yvhlch pitchers since Matty's time have been trying to perfect, and have failed," Fohl continued "The fade-away Is the rarest gift a pKcher can possesa. It hj thrown from a position yvcll back In the palm of thc hand, travols to the plate with fair speed, and then, true to Its name, fades away." , The young hurling star declared he .would finish his medical course at the I University of Missouri this winter oo |