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Show HUGGINS GtVING YOUTHS CHANCE Proves He Is Orie of Snmrt-est Snmrt-est Pilots in Baseball. . ' One player with whom Miller" got-gins got-gins has dared to experiment la Shea-ley, Shea-ley, a young pitcher from St PauL .Wltffout Plpgras, Shealey arid Duroch er," the' Tanlteea wouldn't nave inch-' high standing as they enjoy at the present time. He Isn't the only manager man-ager who la taking chance ' Forced to do so because bis older players did not meet expectation, John Mcdraw has Inserted young Melrtn tOtt lno the Clanta' lineup. Ott baa been with the Giants a full year, .looking .look-ing on from the bench most of the time, so that McGraw, after all, la continuing con-tinuing bis old policy. Connie Mack made changes for -1923 in the Athletics. He used the old-timers old-timers as his mainstay because they could bat, pitting them against the speed and cocksurenesi of the young-sters young-sters who are coming on. And while Connie today is much better off as regard re-gard bis team's percentage than he was a year ago,. the' dub Isn't yet In a position to atop the Yankees. It wasn't many years ago that the Yankee owner raced about New York telling his cronies that "Hoggins waa no good." Some of them swallowed all that he said and Hugging was sneerlngly referred to as "Pint-Size", and as a manager without control of bis team. Today the Yankees manager Is generally regarded as one of the smartest men In baseball. And so he Is. And so he was when be was manager man-ager of the St. Louis Cardinals and, unaided by money or much of anything else, kept that team In the fight and triumphed over a good many obstacles. The American league grabbed Hugglns right from under the eyes of the National Na-tional league owners. Carry Herrmann Herr-mann of Cincinnati knew that Hugglna was going to the American league and did not attempt to prevent it. His colleagues col-leagues censured him bitterly when they found It out, all too late. Herrmann at that time was under the thumb of Ban Johnson and also thought he was doing Hugglns a good turn. He did. |