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Show Experts Often Go I Wrong in Picking Baseball Players The sharps of baseball often go! wrong When tho experienced eye j looks over a promising recruit the guess that follows Is not always correct. cor-rect. "Bib" Falk was the star rollege ' pitcher of Texas. Few left-handers ' as good as he cvf hurled for a! varsity nine Tho Chicago White1 Sox got Falk and It was predicted that he would be a "fliv" as a pitcher, but that ho might be converted Into a good infleldor. But hero is Falk playing the outfield for Chicago and a lot of people think that he could pitch better ball than some of the pit. h'rs that are working for Kid Oleason. Lajterno Atwell Blue of the Detroit Ttpers Is probably the most spectacular spec-tacular first baseman In the American Amer-ican League. He Is ono of the best fielders, batsmen and base runners ' in the gam" But when Detroit got Blue and while he was still in the HLI minOr leagues all the scouts that looked at him said he would never WiH do for an infield position and that he would make a good fielding outfielder, out-fielder, but would have the drawbac ; of weak hitting When Blue started playing first base the Ilea caused flLfl much laughter among the wise men of 'he game who had watched him. You ne.er can tell In baseball oo |