Show HUGGINS GIVING YOUTHS CHANCE proves he Is one of smartest pilots in baseball one player with whom miller huggins haggins lias has dared to experiment la Is shealey a young pitcher from st paul without shealey and durocher the yankees have such buch a high standing as they enjoy at the present time lie he the only manager who la Is taking chances forced to do so BO because his older players did not meet expectation john mcgraw has inserted young melvln melvin ott into the giants lineup ott has be been en with the giants a full year looking on from the bench most of the time so that mcgraw after all Is continuing his old policy connie mack made changes for 1928 in the athletics ile he used the old timers as his mainstay because they could bat pitting them against the speed and cocksureness of the youngsters who tire are coming on and while connie today la Is much better olt oft as regards his bis teams percentage than he was a year ago the club yet iq a position to stop the yankees it many years ago that the yankee owner raced about new york telling his cronies that was no good some of them swallowed all that he said and huggins hugging was referred to as pint size and as a manager without control of his team today the yankees manager Is generally regarded as one of the smartest men in baseball and so he Is and so he be was when he was manager of the st louis cardinali and unaided by money or much of anything else kept that team in the fight and triumphed over a good many obstacles the american league grabbed huggins right from under the eyes of the national league owners garry herrmann of cincinnati knew that huggins was going to the american league and did not attempt to prevent it ufa hla colleagues beag aes ues censured him bitterly when they found it out all too late herrmann ne at that time was under the thumb of ban johnson and also thought he was doing hoggins gins a good turn he did |