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Show baseball men in the country. His fame did not come to him through his rbillty as a player, but It was because lie was a developer of youngsters and a shrewd trader that he became famous. fam-ous. Some of the deals he pulled otr for SL Louis Cardinals will remain as records in the baseball world for yearj to come His latest trade was to shirt Prank Roth of Milwaukee to Cincinnati Cincin-nati for Hosteller and Dan McGanu of St. Louis and Boston Nationals respectively. re-spectively. The new leader of the Brewers haj played ball in most of the American cltlec where the national game is known that Is, in the bigger towns, of course. He managed Houston. Sacramento, Sacra-mento, Savannah, St. Louis and numerous nu-merous other teams. For Boise City he won a pennant after; a bad starr. While managing the Houston team. McCloskey won 22 consecutive games. Jimmy Collins. Ducky Holmes, Fred Kavner, Rus.s Hall. Buck Weaver, Charlie Dexter and others credit McCloskey Mc-Closkey with teaching them all the fine points of the national game. JOHN J. M'CLOSKEY, NOW WITH MILWAUKEE. 'tis", ""' ''Jsrsv 'vfi ; Milwaukee. Wis.. Jan. 21. With a kw of finding suitable tiainin grounds. John J. McCloskey, the -new manager of the Milwaukee American association baseball club Is now on n scouting expedition. He is not looking look-ing for players in this case, but Tor a spn, where the Brewers can limber up and get In shape to best Indianapolis. Toledo. Louisville and other cities in the American association. McCloskey will visit several places in Texas, in Kentucky and will also so to Cluiin-j Cluiin-j atgn, III., whero the team is wante l j by the University of Illinois to train in the big college gymnasium and out- door park. McCloskey is one of the best known |