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Show Lew Fonseca Appears to Be Brittle as Athlete Second Baseman Lew Fonseca is certainly one hard-luck- athlete. Just when he is sold to Cleveland for $50.-000 $50.-000 by Newark, lie turns around and dislocates a shoi.hh.-r. It was a similar simi-lar accident that was responsible for the Portuguese inlielder being waived out of the National league last winter. win-ter. In his previous accident it was his right shoulder I hat was impaired, but fortunately it is his left shoulder this lime. The lirsl injury made Lew's throwing arm so uncertain that it reduced re-duced his value. It was thought at the time that the ex-Red and l'billy would never recover re-cover his old time skill, but the maimed shoulder responded to treatment treat-ment and was as good as new this season. The result was that Fonseca never looked better in Ins career. The latest lat-est injury, though, verifies the belief that Lew is still a brittle athlete and a dangerous invest incut. |