The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-03-28
PR'UE,TT |! WILL
BE RETAINED
BY LEE FOHI.
Manager Has Written Back to
Columbia That Lefty" Is
Too Good a Man to
let CO
MUST CALL HIM SHUCKS'
Home Town Editor Says That
Is His Real Name for
He Was 'Made in
Dexter"

Inc Browns will Get most of Colum-
bias baseball patronage in ST. Louis this
summer. Hubert Pruett is going TO say
with Lee Fohl. The manager Of the
American league pennant entry is
crazy about the University Of Missouri
southpa~.
he has written back to headquarters
that Lefty is too good to let 20 Of.
This is welcome news in Columbia.
where Pruett had hundreds Of admirers
and warm friends. As the following ar.
iicie will testify, Pruett was NOT con.
ceiicd. bss was anxious to learn and was
everybody's friend. II is this type Of
younesaer who makes the grade in the
major league. Read what q ST. Louis
sporting writer says Of Pruetf.
One recruit hurler who has ciinched
q job with the Browns for the comins
season is Hubert t-Shucks") Prueit. the
southpaw from Missouri Universiey, who
WIS seasoned while with Tuisa in the
Western Leseue last summer. Prueif a.
ready has shown enough pitching ability
TO earn job at least as q relief pitcher.
In soaking Of Pruett Manager Foil
says: He may net start any games for
as iris year. but ] believe it safe to say
that be viii prove valuable as relief hurl-
er. He has plenty Of natural patching
ability. learns fast and is eager 10 get
along; therefore why shouldn't he be
retained
Everything Foil says Of Pruett is
nothing but the truth. Prueaf won
name for himself when he pitched in two
successive exhibition games against the
Mobile club and demonstrated his wares
e1celiently in both. In the first he
famed three men in the only inning he
twirled. while on the following day he
permitted but two bit. in three innings,
his masterful work saving the game
which was won, 3 to 2, by the Browns in
ten innings. Here ai Pensacola he had
an of day. but conditions we're against
him.
Besides his natural bafflers. a good
speed bail, fine curve and, above all, con-
troll. Prueit owes his success to the happy
faculty Of listening asienfively to advice
and practicing diligently all the tricks
Of the trade taught him.
= Such winning characteristics are.
bound te obtain results. for the harder
Prue.t works under the wings of Man
aser Foil. Lefty Lei6cld, Coach Bob
Coleman and the veteran players, the
more they will single him out for further
instruction He is a very likesble young
ster. the eIean-cut coliegian. is dark fea-
tured. so6dly constructed and wei man
nered. He was born in Dexter. Mo-
twenty-one years ago, is 5 feet 10 inches
tall and tips the beam at l60 pounds.
Ihe5 fike him so well in Dexier that
E. y Grove, editor Of the Dexter
Seafesnzn. recently wrote ut asking that
We call Hubert "Shucks" for a nickname,
rs he sy known tarilisrly around his
home Town. Groves note follows:
Deai call him Lefty" call him by |
hssse1H 4aue Shscks-, We know, Tor
be was made in Dexter"
SffSberf izfa Explained that. he was
1aIl4 'Shucks because Of the fact that
aurieG. his kid days At Dexfer he used
- 80 frequently = m explctise-
Hst had not iniended 10 play ball
prof. fF MI Until he bad finished his
,oursl aEzne at Missouri Univrr- !
.ity, but lkIes decided TO enter the game /
Is business in sGdes 70 put himself
through schspL To this end he visited
Bob Oaina s st. Louis early laa year
nd ~ plsced with Tulsa II the West
n Eets&. fcf Ssich club he pitched
,eAif e sesinsi 81 Joseph late last
eason.
. 1t sss sk classy exhibition with sew
fal Others that prompted Quinn TO bring
'ruett up for q msjor-league trial tins
pring-