New Britain herald., 1927-10-05
|BOYS WON'T STAR l IN SERIES GAMES
Pa Waner Says Ruth and Gthrig
 Will Be in Same Fix

sons to be baseball heroes, and who doesn't think they will be when the final echoes of the 1927 World Series have died away, watched over Paul and Lloyd Waner-Pitts- burgh's Big and Little Poison-to- day and hoped that his judgement was wrong
 He was Ora Lee Waner-"Dad" tc his boys and Granger" to those who knew him as a crack ball play CT in his own youth. Along with , Ma" Waner and a married sister of the Kids" Dad" came east for the classic series and his first sight of the youngsters since they left the several hundred acre farm In liar rah, Okla, last spring to "burn up" the National League with their sen sational play.
 Wise to the ways of baseball, the square, jawed. sun-tanned father of Paul, premier clouter of his circuit, and Lloyd, co-star of gleaming outfield duo in his first year "up," perched on the edge of sofa in his sons apartment and declared re- gretfully that he didn't expect much of the boys" And strangely enough, of all the Pittsburgh fan dom who have followed the young sters flashing play this season. Dad" Waner probably was alone in his belief
 Its going to be the same way with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as well as my boys" he drawled. "The Yankees will focus all their atten- ton on stopping Paul and Lloyd and Pittsburgh will do the same with the New York pair. l don't calcu late any of the four will be heroes.
 Every ball that comes up 10 them will have everything the pitchers can put on 1t. The pitchers won't work so hard on some Of the other stars and there's where the heroes will pop up. But I kind of hope my boys will come through just the same"
 Years ago when the boys, and an elder brother. Ralph. were develop
 
 fan" each other with corn cobs while using broomsticks for bats, Dad" though that Paul some day might make a ball player Paul was the older the more reliable, while Lloyd was faster but inclined to- ward the spectacular.
 Paul was only 12 years old then ok T ba fore they got q regular baseball they must have hit a million of these broken up corn cobs, only about two , inches long, out back of the barn on the farm. The cobs would jiggle, and dance, and jump every which way, but they got so they could nail them every time.
 T used to scold them and try to make them stop cluttering up my barnyard, but it did no good. Then I got to watching them duck after those things darting in and out and I decided that they were better bat : ters than their dad"
 Here Dad Waner stopped to con- fcss that from 1898 to 1900 he was : quite some shakes of a player" himself on the Oklahoma City team before the Western League was formed. In fact the teams about Ada, of which Harrah is just cross . roads, were just about composed of ! the "Waners and the Beavers" after Dad took to playing independent l ball The Wancr boys mother is a Beaver.
 , However when Dad married he gave up baseball because the job of raising a family on an Oklahoma farm left little time for the national ' game in those days. And while he gained most of his fame as a pitch er, Father Waner admits he was long on left field and had it down pat"
 The boys think now just as I did then" Dad said. T knew there was no better ball player in the world = than myself. My sons are like that : I knew I could throw, could hit, run
 and catch any ball l could get my Il hands on. They do, too, and it; ; the greatest thing there is in life and youth"
 = Then again Father Waner assert
 ed his belief that Paul was the D greater of tile two boys and tht
 finer prospect, but this time ht = started a family argument. Brother > Ralph, whom the two young star!
 considered the best ball player 1T
 the family---nut a better business '' man." took up the cudgel for Lloyd
 The father and his oldest son ar !, eued. And out of the friendly dis | cussion came the following conclu
 sions, mutually agreed upoI: That i , either were q scout, he would picl Paul as the player and Lloyd as tn . prospect. That Lloyd will be a '' good as Paul in two years; that afte
 that point. Lloyd will leave Paul ia l. behind and become one of tn :. games greatcst players.
 Just then the Waner boys them
 selves dropped in on the dlscussio 10 say "GoodEight" because it va 'o 10:30 and time for all young bal u players to be abed.
 Il "We've got 6 ball game on tomor . row." Paul grinned and We shou e get some sleep"
 Yes" yaWned q year old Lloyc - Just another ball game" 2 FIGHTS LAST NIGHT
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