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Show , , ? " ' Waner Most Valuable Player 1 t TIAUL WANEB. who tu elected the most valuable player In the 8 5 l-'Natlbnal league la 102T by a committee of baaeball writers, received B4 Ma pot of gold and tba NaUowd league bronze medal befora a fi K larie crowd at tbe PltUburgh grounda the other day. , ; K S Waner had -n amailng baaeball record behind the winning of jjj S thia valuable player medal atd- ' - 8 'prize. It W bla second year tn. the f, big leagues and he led thafieague S aa hntamnii without a rival, having batted , 350 In Xhe,Poit. league, la 1 1925 be batted .401 and won his big j !! batting percentage of " .379. ;; Hornaby, hi closest contender, ft batted .359. played -In jJ 155 games, missing only" one contest He led bis. league in league Mai- to 1926, j playlhgbh first, year. Jj for the Urates, be bat- -" ted 38a p . ' T"He was 8 e of - .379. ' , ; league trial- to contender, ,' playlhg"'bt' first, played -In .. 4 f0f the Urates, hi only' one IH, 'J ' " ' te . league In r rXU ) V 'C-V;tlmt year by B YJ-)lA y: Hargraves and Chr Jf- sen of the Bedi TZ4),J Williams of tlie Ph J2Zhl Earl Smith of;th Ol tvXe an1 stePhenJ i cVr these played In as , Y - as 120 games. r ' W played in 144 ga;ne ,!L.n year and had some &MifaSSg nical claim to thi ai inr j . ttt,a hi- rprt K biu with a. ( p made 41 two big- r- , gera and led bis 0 league In three bag- H gera with . 13 and ' acored 144 runs, ft . Paul was pitch- W er for bla . blgh school nine at Okla- jl; honia '-City at . the 5 age of fourteen ft years. At sixteen .J the Oklahoma City !! Western league club ; wanted to sign him, !; . but ,Ms father In- tlmt year by Breasler, Hargraves and Christen- $ sen of the Beds, by Williams of the Phillies, A Earl Smith of; the PI- rates and Stephenson of j; tbe Cubs, but none of ,, these played In as many as 120 games. Waner played In 144 ga;nes that' year and had some tech- nlcal claim to the bat- ft ling title his very first jj big league year. But It ,. J 1 A ..A mni 1 ! Paul Waner. fi slated that he attend the state nor- was preuy genera u.u- - P, mal. After three years of school men following the do"'j $ 0 he left In 1921 to pitch for the that Hargraves of the Beds, who !! Frisco club. He was then nineteen played In 105 games b'tted p '5 years old. A sore arm ruined his 353, was the champion. Paul con- ft Lltchlng career at Its very begin- tinues his great batting s ride this g nlng In 1L24 he got his chance year although not yet quite up to g ! to play regular In the outfield and the high mark he attained last year, g |