| Show Boston Braves Braves' New Outfielder ld r i Looks Like Another Tyrus Cobb I This i i ie the story tor of or a It young o n man mai who ho broke Into the big leagues oun man ali I aS ai h hi liaR has Just passer out of lii hl his teens Tim ThC has e In In- In moro more nd advertising lint hut the dlan diati lIan would T have C had hn-d little on this nth nth- leto Ide had ho preserved Ins his amateur standing and entered collegiate work In tho fall C of 1911 I L Leslie lIe Mann Manri was wai quarterback on the high school football football foot toot ball team at Lincoln Neb eb a a place which ho lie aim alin to help helt W WJ W. W J J. J Br Bryan Br Ln Ir Jr fn making famous fatuous HIS IllS team everything In sight a w weak ak Mann's Manns rann pu punting and goal kicking com corn with ability to run with sIth the tho ball being responsible for or almost ever every score m matl ulo strung strong opponents In ii r n. n game with W Ve West zt t Dos Des Moines HI High h. h with with three touchdowns rolled up lIl against hlf hIA t am Mann Mant entered th tho thi contest with teri minutes to pla play and won the thic game Jame S Entered t. t the Mink The next summer Leslie down do n to Nebraska City In the class clasi D fl D Mink got a aJob Job fie le had hail been the tho champion hl high h school chool sprinter of or the Missouri valley alley e a crack broad Jumper high Jumper and his hisch ch chest st swarmed with medals Ho lie was waa touted as th best high h school forward In basketball countrywide But baseball baseball baseball base base- ball had been be n merely a corner lot pastime pastime pastime pas pas- time for him him so far tar He lie was used a aa asa as a 0 utility man for a R while breaking into he regular lineup at Intervals and cinching a 0 place towards midsummer The Tho boy bo 19 then took unto himself as asa asa asa a wife a miss whom ho had nad ored fa since grammar school days Then Theil he h acquired his high ol diploma ma and that thal fall tall at nt the expiration of or the tho ball season Reason entered tho the Springfield Mass Training Training- school It wU wil wiN be remembered d that Syracuse S university that year jear car ha had t orle one oze of oC Its best teams tying Michigan 6 to t 6 and giving giving- several lickings where It had been accustomed to taste defeats Then It met the tho training school Final score Springfield 21 24 1 Syracuse 0 O. O Mann Maim made two touchdowns kicked two goals woJa from touchdowns and three c goals from CroIn field his total score being Jus just t tho ho four twenty four points which his team made In winning In Big Four Fou games gaines the training training- school got Jol away awn with small scores last year ye r. r Eastern papers i 1 this to the potency y of Manns Mann's kicking to toe Eastern colleges bid fo for fo his ils until they discovered ered that he le was vas a 0 professional i nal J ball all plaYer and roud ot of it That ended college hopes or tor him He came ba back k to the Mink lea league n In n 1911 he hit In ninety five games garnos second In the lea league ue but wn wasn't nt much m on n fielding his average a being beng A r He ed his league In homo home runs I 1 wever II ind nd locked good enough so 50 that thit Seattle grabbed him for its Northwestern len ensue eague ue team Out there thero last season ho In In- games gaineS scored lOt runs uns stole 20 bases bases' and made 26 Ice hits mits He lie pulled his fielding averige aver avor- ige age up to and was wag grabbed by Buffalo in the International l league Us His showing In spring practice was uch such that the tho Boston National manago- manago nent ment secured his lila services Started l Without Hh ut NoIse Mann iann broke Into the game a a. week ago go Monday Monda On his first day a he lie went went through the conte contest t without a 3 hit or a chance On the following day y he ic kC acquired two putouts and a sacrifice tit hit Stallings didn't seem discouraged d db b iy y the lads lad's loss Joss of ot his batting eye eje for foric he ic kept him bun right in center field Ho lIo rao waa repaid Mann drew drewa a l. l single early In Iii 9 game Then in the ninth with the core tied d ho shot shot- a a. home run far 01 over oer er head and three runs rums pattered vcr over the pan winning the tho game garne Sat- Sat SatI he acquired d a two bagger er erand and I 5 4 fr R i 5 L te tk ri I p S Sm m k t rw 4 cA j LESLIE MANN uto u. t o singles out of or Boston's quota of ot eight Jilts hits his hiM third drive being the I only nin h hit of ot the tho game ame and scoring In log ing- the Braves' Braves only run Boston did not play the next da day but Monday Monda Mann nn landed for a single and made five lve putouts Then Theil he lie passed for Cor three I days one day dav repeating his record of ot nothing doln doing in fielding chances as aswell asWell well Friday Priday s contribution was a triple tri tn- tri I pie scoring a a. run Stalling Stallings kept him himon himon himon on the Job Boston kept winning Manns Mann's high hl h school career was vas fin fin- under difficulties He lie found round time for tor his athletics and study when he ho wasn't working He stood well ell in his lila studies took part In lii amateur dramatics won t firsts in almost every ven event In which he was entered In in lii track captained captained cap cap- tamed a a. Missouri valley valle championship basketball team and nd played the most sensational brand of or football the writer has ever er seen any quarterback put on and ad that flInt includes Includes' Johnny Johnn McGovern ern one olie time limo all American selection Ho weighs about n out pounds has no habits save that o getting homo home to his wife as soon as as the l panics games out la is still a ghost wh whoa n at full speed evidently evi el dently Isn't afraid to take a good sized wallop at big bg league pitching and gets by I In athletics as much by byuse use of or gray gra matter as fiR by natural powers This lad I Is is' another entry in the Future TV Cobb class |
