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Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • Page 9

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'V SHAMOKIN DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1926 Will This Series Have Rookie Hero? HAPIRO 46-52 East Independence Street Shamokin, Pa ew KOTlE ns. rtis tomtom -tg2 1'' -J Values to $24.75. Showing all the new fall styles and colors. Regular sizes 16 to :42.

Stylish stouts 44 to 48. Valueo to $24.75 Tomorrow we launch a Dress Sale without comparison- Right at the beginning of the Fall Season. 'X ii' 'A lis WOMEN'S AND MISSES' New Fall Sport Coato Beautiful Fur Trimmed Coato. Extra Special 4 Xv- BRANCH RICKEY Cardinal coffers. Jess Haines was bought for 10,000, a 'tremendous turn in the light of other purchases.

And so it poes right, down thq line. The scouting system, the miror leawe system anu t.s colls-e yttcm ell rolled into one have pro-n nf-nnatt winner iov Ilia Women's and Misses- Fur Coats Choice selection of newest models and pelts, at less than wholesale prices. Now is the time to buy and save. Cardinals for about one-half or the tint the Yankees paid for tr-'j pbyer. 2 Values to $25,00 Cardinals Are Worth Millions An unusually large purchase fcr this sale enables us to offer these exceptional values in Siik Sinkings in every wanted new fall color, including saves money and it produces players.

If vou don't believe ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30-An original It investment of $39,000 for players ball i nno nnn ask BreEdon Ur Kickey, who in BLACK and BROWN stituted tha system. For instance, Taylor Douthit, HwKO (By Koy Grove) Somewhere, some place, some time and somehow, there will be a hero of the coming series. A rookie will be given his chance and leap into undying fame as has been the case of past seriea history.

Today he aits on the bench peering through the darkness of a showing, tomorrow he is lauded from the ends of the earth to be a 1 UU7 drawing card, Who is he? Who was he in the past! Tap years ago, in J916, the greatest submarine Carl Maye waa-asrookte pitcher, a member oi the Red Sox. He broke into the ser. Flint Rhem, Wattie Holm and Chick 1 Hafey didn't cost a dime. They pennant winning preposition for President Stm Breadon of the St. Louis Through judicious trading, pickups in colletrc circles, the use of wero plucked straight irom a college campus and came up via the several minor league iarms ana Fort Smith route.

other processes whereby young stars Lester Bell cost a paHry $2,500 are developed at next to nothing the 4t and today he rivals Pie Traynor as the greatest third baseman in the game. Tommy Thevenmv was bought for 14,000, a real plunge for a youngster from the Cardinal angle. Bottomley was -picked up free. So was Ray Blades, a high school lad from St. Louis.

It is baseball history that Rog Hornsby V' lea and came out a hero. No mar. X. ever had a stiffer introduction into Brcadon-Kickey-Hornsby combination has assembled a pennant winner out of a shoe-string investment. Probably no other big league club has the same remarkable minor league organization as the Cardinals.

It is generally recognized that the Fort Smith club, the Houston club and the Syracuse club, all of different classifications, are con himself sold for 5500. Bill Southworth didn't cost a nickel, as he was obtained in a trolled out of St. Louis. Youngsters off the lots or from trade for Heine Muller, a former varsity circles are shooed to the kindergarten class at Fort Smith. It they develop they at ehifted to Houston of tho Texas league end then are sent to the finshing school at Syracuse in the International league.

bat boy. for the Cardinals, who c't nothing. Toporcer came from the lota of New York, gratis. The great Alexander represents the waiver outlay of $4,000 only. Bob O'Farrell came in a trade that meant no more than $8,000 to the I'm I ALL SAM BREADON Alabama Has Small Squad for Football In all the latest new Fall ATTENTION i til vne oig snow man me now lamous Mays.

Mays got his call in the first game of the series between Brooklyn. Brooklyn came to bat in the ninth inning. It was evident that Ernie Shore had the game sewed up for Boston with 6 to 1 marked up on the board. About that time Brooklyn filled the bates and three runs had been hammered across the plate, Brooklyn could win when Manager Carrigan jerked Shore to the bath and beckon-ed for Rookie Mays to the awe and surprise of the stands. The kid Mays shook, whitened and then composed himself when Chief Meyers end Jake Daubert came out for their turn Bt the pinto.

Meyers ran out an infield hit, then Carl became the hero by making the slutr- ing Daubert ground to Scott and woklyn failed by a run. It was several years later that Mays played an important role in leaving the Cubs on the short end when he won the third and last of the 1918 series by a score of 2 to 1, allowing five hits per game. A veteran rrovcd equally the hero of the Red Sox-Cubs' series of along with Mays. Georgo Whitcman was thrown blindly into the fray through lack of men. He won the first game, setting two' of Boston' Ave hits.

In the third game he robbed Paskert of a home run by what is known lis an impossible catch. In the fifth game his throw from tho field cut off Hollocher from tho Colors Styles and Fabrics MEN! Now is the Time to Buy Your Winter O'Coat And Save One-third and More, Single and double breasted models! 1 1. If or men and youngl The most sensational men. EXTRA SPECIAL SALE men's winter over- plate with the winning run. George Itohe joined.

the. White Sox at the tail end of the seaaon in 1905. He subbed around third fo' the nlayinsr season of 1906. He was Scoats ever held in bha- rated as just an ordinary hitter, but he came to bat in the first game and mokin now going on at sent out a triple that Avon from the Sox over the Cubs with a score of 2 to 1. That sock nut him on the hot snot Shapiro's.

of the diamond for the remainder of Don't miss it. the series. The rooklo Rohe did the best of A HOME RUN FROM OUR BOYS' DEPARTMENT his work- in the third game of the series when he came to the plate with the bases full and socked th first ball pitched against the right-field wall for three bases to win the game. EXTRA! Boys' 2 Pants Vest SUITS Leslie Bush was a pitcher who oys' Mackinawo Boys' 2 Pants Vest SUITS The Best Value in Town ft 000 turn' to 1 and WINTER O'COATS In all the new fall styles and colors $.95 Of heavy Wool and Wool Mixed 400 Values up to 110.00 4 WALLACE WADE. l-JIMMY JOHNSON.

2 CLARKE PEARCE. 3 CAPTAIN RED ARNES. 5 "GOOFY" BOWDOIN AND 6-SHERLOCK HOLMES. Jumped into the rookie hero role. Connie Mack had depended on hit vete, Plank and Bender, to carry him through the 1913 series, but for the third game he found it necessary to call, upon Bush, a pitcher with only one year of minor leagua experience.

Litelie opposed the famous Tes-reau and he held the Giants to five smacks, defeating them 8 to 2. The dope has it that the most expected is the least and it is the lexnt expected that we get the most from t.f any world series. There are very few of the stars of the game who deliver the greater things or do the bulk of the work. Sixes 6 to 18 yean team has some nickname, many of them being Rip, Hot, Fritzy, Skid, Sherlock, Rosie and Hootney. HAPIRO The Crimson' Tide of Alabama are also noted for the fact that they THEi Shamtfth, Rsi Alabama has the smallest varsity football squad, we believe, of any university in the country.

It numbers exactly 31 men, including men who have not the slightest chance in the world to make the team. It is the smallest squad Wade has ever had at Alabama, and is peculiar in the fact that all of the members are Alabama boys with the ex-ception of Caldwell, a back, from Arkansas, and a lineman named always play minus stockings and it 1 i n. i jr Av Skidmore from Tennessee. For years the Alabama students have always given their athletes some peculiar nickname. Such namefi as "Pooley," "Lena," "Lovely," "Goofy," "Mullie," "War-horse" are connected with the names of Hubert, Styles, Barnes, Bowdoin, Leonir, Stephenson all of them athletes of note from Alabama.

Barnes and Bowdoin are tth Alabama now, and every man on tho is jiaru as me miscniei iur ine Crimson mentors to play with head' Tne roome oreaKg are hair a ser- 46-52 East Independence StrcsL 7-Jei. gears. None of the backs will wear headgears and the majority of the Buenos Aires ii to have a new six-story department store. linemen try and get out of it much as they can. i.

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