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Show DID LARRY KOPF HAVE HUNCH THAT REDS I WERE ABOUT DUE TO CAPTURE PENNANT? j Brooklyn fans were mighty sore last spring when Larry Kopf refused to report to them and insisted on remaining with Cincinnati. Many thought Larry was foolish. The Dodgers had a fairly strong team and It looked as though a classy shortstop would put them in the pennant fight. But Larry must have had the hunch that the Reds were due to cop. Larry's real name is William Lawrence Kopf. Probably his folks, back in Bristol, Conn., where he was born in 1893, called him Willie. Kopf broke into baseball with the Fordhnm college team. Cleveland grabbed him off in 1912 and farmed him out to Toledo. Later he was turned over to the Athletics, playing second base for them in 1914 and 1915. Baltimore Balti-more obtained his services the next year. The Red scouts reported him nearly ripe to star in 1917 and Garry gobbled him up. In 1918 he played a while-with Fore River and then entered the army. |