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Show Unusual Names Quick to Capture Imagination What's in a name? Almost everything. every-thing. The rose by any other name hardly would smell quite as sweet after nil. Most of the men who capture the Imagination of a nation have unusual names. Rogers Horusby got his start in the big leagues because Miller Hug-gins Hug-gins was attracted by his rather unusual un-usual name. Babe Ruth wouldn't be quite the figure he la under the name of Joe Smith. "Fortune likes fine names," said James Russell Lowell, "und Fame loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue." Base on Balls Proving Great Bane to the Cubs That incident in baseball, described as the deadly base on balls, has played a much more Important part In the antics of the Cubs this season thun nil the solid hitting, or lack of It, that has caused a commotion among the customers. A base on balls or a batsman soaked In the ribs now and then doesn't seem to be anything alarming. But when a check of Cub box scores show that of the first 50 runs scored against McCarthy's boys this year, approximately ap-proximately half were put on the base on balls or hit batsmen, then It is something else again. |