The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-12
ST. LOUIS FANS
PLEASED WITH
"LEFTY''PRUETT
Sporting News, Weekly Base
ball Paper, Praises For
mer Missouri
Pitcher.
HURLS BROWN VICTORY
Enthusiastic Fans Carry Him
off the Field on Their
Shoulders After Detroit
Defeat.
HURLS BROWN VICTORY

Herbert Pruett, the University Of Mis-
sonri's contribution to the big leagues
this year, continues to occupy the spot
light, not only of Columbia followers,
but also Of many lovers Of baseball in
the big leagues. who are closely watch
ing the Browns desperate effort to bring
a pennant to St. Louis.
The Sporting News. weekly baseball
paper published in st. Louis. in paying
tribute to Pruett's fine work in all the
games he has entered to date, ran two
column picture Of the "boy wonder" with
fhe following caption over it:-"And
This Is No Fairy Tale" The picture
shows the southpaw in action.
The article under the picture tells the
story as follows: Young college pitch.
er, sitting on a big league clubs bench.
A fierce extrainning game on, the home
clubs star pitchers is chased by the UNI
pire and all seems lost. College boy
grabs his glove, rushes to the box with
out a warm-up, mows down the opposing
batters for two innings, tanning all who
faced him but one and should have had
that one but for villain umpire. His
team takes heart and puts over the
~inaing run in great sixteenth inning
windup. Enthusiastic fans carry college
boy off the field on their shoulders"
All this actually happened to Hubert
Pruett in ST. Louis-Detroit game Me-
mortal Day, and that Memorial Day
stunt isn't all the college boy hero has
done. He went into the game in the
ninth the next day with the bases full
and saved it for the Browns. In the
game Of Sunday before last he started on
his own account, but didn't finish, going
out for pinch-hitter, after which Urban
Shocker returned the compliment Of 4
few days before and won the game. If
Pruett keeps going as he has started this
year he will soon be rated as one Of the
real stars in the big show and he may be
a deciding factor in the chase the Browns
are making for Ban Johnson's 1922 pen
nant.
Another story on the front page Of this
same paper, in discussing the Browns
chances of winning the pennant, says,
Probably the most important develop
ment for the Browns, aside from the rec.
orded fact that they won six out of eight
games in their first home week, was the
demonstration that Danforth and Pruett
are to be classed as honest-to-goodness
pitchers. That may not be such start.
ling news as to Pruett, because it was
cinch he would if he got chance, but
it is quite an item as to Danforth."
After discussing Danforth's record the
article continues, Nov for Pruett. The
boy from the University of Missouri has
been allowed to nibble along at the ex-
perience rag for weeks, finishing games
and such like. He started one Sunday
before last, the final one in the White |
SOx series. : <,n11
He didn't finish it, but this southpaw-
ing boy from school sure did show he |
IAN pitch. Given anything like the !
breaks he would not have had to go out |
Tor pinch-hitter. as he did in the sew
snth, and thus give Shocker a chance to
net another victory, for Pruett would not
nave been scored on and thus would
nave gone through with his game but
or i'll luck. Bad judgment in taking a
ielders choice in one inning and Huke
in another gave the White Sox
heir two runs.
Two runs put the Browns behind,
md it was proper strategy to take Pruett
'ut and let Pat Collins bat for him at
What seemed an Opportune moment. Col
ins didn't deliver as he usually does, but
he thing worked out all right, since Ur.
ian Shocker took charge of the pitching
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