San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-17
Boston Manager Has a
Stick of Dynamite and a
Mules Hoof and Things
Will Happen If He Brings
Them Together.
Ry IOHN r. FOSTER

bt 6UttN u. FOSIEh
Copyright by The San Antonio Light.
Mr.. Foster is hero on his tour
of the spring training camps. He
buzzed with the Boston club
Sunday and this is his impress
sion of things in general at the
local camp.
Lee Foil has a. task just to his
liking this year. ITO induce him to
say so would be- like pulling tacks
out of a rag carpet with your fingers.
but Others can say so for him without
stretching the Truth. Foil is one of
the best cabinet makers in baseball
He puts togethef the legs and the Top,
of baseball team like a Chinese
worker in wood puts together the
many pieces of tea table. He-has
been constructing since he first was
called to a Inanagership and no man
has been nenrer TO two major league
championships than he without ac-
tually find ing them settled to his
credit account.
They jabbed him with darts when
he failed to win. But instead of
gripping him, the darts have only
made hiui more persistent. He neith-
er smile5 nor frowns. He keeps his
eyes front and pushes on. Eventually.
that man is going to land what he
HAd Little to Start With.
Here in San Antonio. Foil has
what is left of team that was re-
duccd from opulence to poverty in
the WAY of ball players. If it weren't
for Boston fans perhaps the Yanks
L. IL. FlAtr
robbed the old bean pot until Glance
wasI left with nothing but smile
and King Tut hair cut. Foil has
a Side addition by trade and pur-
chAse.
There is chance that this outfit.
uhcnsy afternoon for other American
league managers, for it is just as
likely to turn out cyclone as an
April shower. Not that it seems d.
tectly headed for a pennant. But
from day to day it will be n wise
manager of the team opposing the Red
Sox who is able to predict what this
Boston crowd will do next.
If the infield plays as Foil has
been working ii, Joe Harris will play
first base. He is apt to hit any time
and he can play the base better than
an unknown. Wambsganss, who
trained for a preacher and thus be-
came good ball player-the reverse
of Billy Sunday, who trained for a
ball player and became good preach
er-is one part of the Cleveland trade
that put a thoroughly conservative aud
safe man on second, AID he isn't
stbrOugh" nv whole LOT
Good Reports Of Lee.
Dudley Lee, who played short for
Tulsa last year, in one of those short
young men with the reach of seven
footer. He accepted more chances
ON the infield in 1923 than any minor
Lacquer. Out in this part of the
world, folks who have seen him play
declare he is destined TO be the main
support of any circus tent under
which he performs.
On third Mcmillan is to continue
on the road to fame over which he
started last season. Chance called
him his most improved ball player,
and if Chance had il to do over he
would have started him at third and
said to him: "Son, there you. are.
Darn you, stick"
In the outfield there are Boone,
Flagstead. "Shano" Collins, yeach,
Connolly and Todt. They can hit.
Many a pitcher will wish that the
tailenders of last season had forgot
ten to flatten him before the middle
of September has been slugged into
history.
Boone is the man who Knocked
down all the fences in Texas last sea-
son while playing with San Antonio.
Ii NAV be that this big Alabama boy
has had all the rough edges polished
away.
veach Is a trumper to whom the
Detroit club owed many game in
the past but who had lived SO long
with Detroit that he had fallen vic
tim TO severe attack of monotony,
Beans and cod fish may prove better
for him than Lake st. Clair frogs
legs.
Flagstead escaped Detroit to go to
Boston and some time ago -Shano"