Show t 44 4 t H tt att brooklyn rookie Is making good t 5 ir rookie made good with a hang bang tits his first year when 40 T j lie lilt lill and butted batted in runs while he be played ills his first big league baseball last season yet del bissonette file lie brooklyn first F bareman dae anian tin has land bad a long and interesting career on the diamond tie fie 1 was wag first signed by the lie s ten years ago when he was pitching f 0 A for tits his school team up in winthrop maine at the tender age of i 11 nineteen anil and mind you bissonette was playing semipro bull ball up op in that country two years yeara pr erlus to 4 I 1 this eventful period in his career later del went to new hampshire r 0 4 1 1 tate state college and then to 4 4 Ceorge lown university in 1021 1921 last fust as lie he was about to realize on Us pitching skill he fe dc de developed eloped a Q 4 sore arm and went back to the ohp 4 maine woods it dij did seem as th though ough tits ills big league career had vanished away anway even before its realization iut the next year lie he played in montreal its as no an butt lelder on a Q euil pro team pani in 1922 he be was signed by cleve land and went south with tile he tem team but hint pitching arm st still I 1 g gave ve mm him trouble so buck back he went t to 4 ills maine woods ile he became um manager n 7 of a hull teara team up there ani 1 played first tinse base that season sea too for t the first time A ah lie he tried to A del pitch for cleveland said and applied to 0 o t Cone bonesetter setter reese to mend hint COP X pled suni su ni cut but it 1 BBS as nd all la in villo vain so the famous pitcher from maine became bissonette first basemann basei base imn tann for york of the I 1 lenn ienn 4 league from there lie he went to 11 of the new york league and there his blit hitting altti ng attracted the attention ol of larry stilton Si ilton the rolan scout and lie he was wag signed fur for brooklyn that was in 1925 4 ua went south with tile robins the next year and armed out to jersey X next net year lie he sowed bowed liase base bits batting fume fame on the buffalo farm 1 bissonette himself sums up his basel baseball lall career in this cryptic and yet set illuminating tene 1 I spent four years trying to cure a sore gore 2 arm and then I 1 spent four more years learning to pla first base sal I 1 want to tell ou that it takes lukes just that long for a fellow to leam 71 to play that eliat bag the veteran rookie bissonette may combine fiel ling and hitting to that degree where he will press the best of them thein all for premier honors dun dan brothers anson Com lakey tenney alg jigs s donolee Don oliue all 1 I 4 left lefi classics cimics in first base play behind them and sister and kelly were stars of a later day great gre it first basemen basci neo who can bit are coming to 4 be us ais rare is as old fashioned girls hence unusual value to tits his team for lie le Is ia a first baseman of much promise e |