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Show PIRATE MANAGERIAL JOB IS NO SINECURE i ' ' X .XX'-'-'X- " .. t-i . ; .j . V Xx . . - ;) ! i v t J 'A ' T' ' a ' A L ; , ' k Vr t y Xx HUGO BEZDEK, NEW LEADER OF PITTSBURGH TEAM. iXTlf JACK VETOfK, International News .Sports Editor.) Hiiro RczU:k lias a man-sized job .on his mitts us manager of tlie Pirates. It Is no cinch to take hold of a tall-- tall-- end team In ulidseason and pump it full of life and pepper, but this Is the task Bezdek has tackled, and he may : surprise the critics by making good Willi a vim. There are nl.ways a few joy killers who predict dark things for the fel- ' low who lalvcs the reins as manager of a losing ball club. He gets about a.i much encouragement as the allies . lire glving,Von lliudenburg these days, and if he Is one of the kind who can bo discouraged easily he has about as nit'ch chance of getting by as a snowball snow-ball In a pot of boiling oil. The Hi-ate managerial job this year 'lools just about as big us all outdoors, and the material Bezdek inherited when he took the wheel was not cal-culalcd cal-culalcd to bring joy to any manager's heart. But Bezdek did not hesitate when the berth was offered to him. lie simply stuck out his jaw and went to it. And he may show the critics a few things about overhauling a ball Tlub that they have never dreamed of. Stranger things have happened in baseball, and If the Pirate owners will stand behind Bezdek he may be the man for the permanent job. Who knows? Look at the case of Lee Fohl. Lee was appointed manager of the Cleveland Cleve-land Indians to finish out a bad season. No one thought he would stick as pilot of the club. But he's still there, and he has had the Indians in the limelight lime-light ever since the owners of the club got behind him and handed him moral and financial support. One of the main troubles with the Pirates was the fact that they began playing ragged and often listless baseball, base-ball, as soon as they found out that they didn't have the stride necessary to keep them in the pennant race. They were discouraged, and Callahan was discouraged, too. So the club was not really doing its best. Bezdek gained some valuable experience ex-perience In the handling of men as a baseball and football eoach, and he has studied players as a scout for the Pittsburgh club. His fighting qualities were trained during his football days with the University of Chicago, and while lie wore the Maroon he was one of the greatest backs the Windy City school ever turned out. |