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Show it, ; ! May Make Reds Flag Threat ii I- AT what you will, thi Cincinnati Bed look to be the moat danger- ', out competition the ao-called favorite tn the National league ; ; pennant race will hare to meet And the prime reason for It if . , their up-and-golng new manager, Dan Howley, late of the St Loul Browna, and hit Idea. J' Dan la Just about everything a lot of managers think they shouldn't ( ; be, and that seema to be the secret of his success. He is chummy, even . J familiar, with his men, and speaks his Ideas freely and without restraint, ; ; X writes Hal Totten In the Chicago Dally News. But he has a knack of gaining the men's confidence without losing their respect , He I a prime believer in condition. HI pitching staff was In by I J far the best physical condition of any hurling corps seen in the South, t yet not one had done much actual pitching. Instead, by running around X J the park, chasing fungoea, fighting pepper games and other exercises, t J every one had taken off excess weight, had bis wind and found his legs 1 X In perfect condition. 2 T Then again, Dan doesn't keep working secrets from his men. I "Doug," be will say to big Doug McWeeney, Chlcagoan and late of I f the Brooklyn Robins, "jou pitch Saturday." And It Is only Tuesday X when he sayt it Result: Doug J tears in for a couple of daya of strenuous conditioning, puts In a j long and then a short session pitch- lug to batters, and on Saturday j turns in a low-hit performance. Dan collected three American J leaguers during the winter and f still It confounding the stupidity J of American league managera that let the men go. "Say," he bubbles enthuslas- tlcally, "Bob Meusel, Harry Hell- : mann and Leo Durocher have just about made my ball club." "Secondary strength it our strength this year," sayt Don. "A lot of my lnfieldert don't bit so much. But suppose we come to a place In the middle of a game J where a plnch-hltter can core X runs. I can shoot him In, and J then replace the Inflelder with anil an-il other without weakening my de- . N ;. .fflrTmirff" X T fense in the lcaat People are I X worrying about my pitchers. I'm Dan Howly- X X not And I've got the greatest young catcher to come into the game J ffor many a long year In young Sukeforth." And it looks about t that way. 1 |