Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-08-28 | Page 7 | Martin M'Manus Going some for Mere Stripling

, MARTIN M'MANUS I 1 GOING SOME FOR MERE STRIPLING ! I MTMANTS. riftPssV BY ROY GIBBONS. I CHICAGO Martin J McManUs, now two-bagging It for the St. Louis Browns Is another one of those sand- I lot meteors which every now and thun flash out acroso the sky of sportdom I Marty achlevod his love after tha I horsehlde in the Windy City behind j ! the stockyards at the early age of I seven when he organized a neighbor-' neighbor-' hood team of youngsters known as the 'Athletics" I Today, at 21, he Is making gresl I flmo In the big leagues piling up arj t j envious 33$ batting average, "whlcli , Is going somo for a stripling," a ohbac,-oans are wont to ruminate in speaking of him HAD HARD SLEDDING. I Marty's father died when Marty was quite young. For a long time tho family had a struggle of lf But things are different now, because with Marty doing big league stuff and a brother and sister worlyng at homi. 'heir little white-haired mother Is ensconced en-sconced comfortably In a cozy West j 1 Side flat with a phonograph and sv- orything. And ls that little mother proud of j her boy! You should hear her talk about him "He was Just wild about baseball I even as a tiny tot," she says. "I remember one day after he had ! cleaned himself up for school he turned around and looked at me and 1 said Ma. some day I'm going to be , with the big ones. Just look at my I : batting arm I'll make things easy for you when that happens And he's been doing that too Just as he ' promised " JOINED TTIE PROS. At 17 Marty climbed out with the i Tulsa team of the Western league (! and had his first professional work- 'out He had drifted around Chicago lone; enough, so ho thought, and anyhow, j the Mfmlpro managers were susplc- J i ious of his batting ability To them j Marty was an excellent second base- i man but his slugging was a dispute Marty Joined the Browns In 1921 as a rookie. Since then he has been playing unquestionably good ball All j j the old gang back in Chicago watch j his every movement on the diamond, i as reported by the press, with ea-r interest. When Marty makes a play worthy fl of mention there is a celebration back j In tho yards. 1 And Chicago Is mourning that It i I was not she who placed ythe laurels '' I i on -his head. y I