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Show FREDDIE MAGUIRE GOES TO BOSTON To Fill Place Made Vacant by Homsby's Exit. Freddie Maguire's big league career has been a brief but eventful one. He came from Toledo last spring to play second base for the Cubs alongside a second year shortstop, no light assignment as-signment for a rookie when it is considered con-sidered that the Cubs had pennant aspirations. They called him the weak link in the Cub pennant chain last spring and they hoped that the hard hitting outfield would carry him and his futile bat along to the championship. champion-ship. Well, Maguire hit only .277 but he was one of the finest fielding second basemen in the business and he had a part in many batting rallies that the famous outfield did not help along. This first year rookie batted In 38 runs and scored G9 himself, not so grand, and yet not so terrible. They do say that a great keystone man is essential to a championship team, and if this is true Maguire must be quite a boy, for he played 140 games for the Cubs at second base last season, and these same Cubs were in the pennant fight up to the last W J ww3P, " U Freddie Maguire. ten days of play. Surely it was not Maguire who was the weak lluk in the Cubs pennant chain. A game boy In the pinches, both at the bat and in the field. He hit within nine points of Cuyler and he accounted for more runs than many outfielders of standing stand-ing in his league. And as for his play at second it was brilliant at times and it was steady when the baseball pressure was more than 200 pounds to the square inch. But the fates of the game moved the clever and promising Maguire as a pawn in the deal that brought the redoubtable Hornsby to the Cub machine, ma-chine, and so Freddie will play for the Braves In Boston next season. He must fill Homsby's shoes when the Braves go on the warpath in 192!). And he will probably fill them in the field, for he bids fair to he one of the great second basemen of his day. but no man can fill In for Hornsby and his .400 hitting average with the bat This Maguire is no spring chicken, even If he has Just finished his first major league season, for he Is twenty-eight years old. |
