New Britain herald., 1929-10-12
BY VIM. NJ. BRAUCHER NEA Service Sports Writer

About this time of year a certain kind of ball player tells the wife. if any, not to stock up on too much heavy furniture.
 At the same time. he begins to wonder where he'll play next year maybe in the big time. maybe the Association, maybe the Central league-and one guess is as good as another.
 In baseball there are many such vagabonds, roaming up and down from the majors to the bushes. from New York to the Kitty league and back. But this year two of the charter members of the Strollers Guild are not biting off their nails and worrying about next season.
 These two are Lefty Crank J.) O'Doul of the formerly futile Phils and Lew F'onseca. the singin' Por- tuguese of the Cleveland Indians. O'Doul, after being traded, bought, chased and given away at intervals during the last several years, man. aged to park in the outtield all sea son with the Phls and to lead the nifty 400. Fonseca, sent about from this team to that during eight years of baseball experience. stands at the top of all the American league batsmen with a percentage of .363
 Another McGravian Tumble
 
 able positions on the Yankee bench twice, and once given the gate by that ace of David Harums, J. J. Me Graw. Miller Huggins brought O'Doul from Frisco in the disguise of q left-handed pitcher. Lefty had one of those roundhouse curves you love to touch and Higgins gave up trying to make q pitcher out of him.
 When the Yankee manager asked O'Doul to ready himself for an out field job, Lefty showed him cou- pie Of broken fingers on his right hand.
 T can't catch flies with these, Hug" he said. T never will be an outhelder"
 That opened the way to career there he drifted 10 Salt Lake City. Meanwhile he had been thinking over what Huggins had told him and decided that if the damaged hook could hold a bat pretty well why not a fly ball? It was good logic and from that day on Lcftys business began 10 look up.
 Coming and Going The Cubs bought him and gave him to Hollywood. Hollywood trad. ed him to Frisco. McGraW pickel him up, and he hit .319 last year for the Giants, though he often got lost in the outf1eld.
 McGraW liked Leach, so he sent O'Doul and some cash 10 the phils 1 The deal gave Burt Shotton tn, leading liter In the National lcagu, and an improved outfelder, whiI, Leach ran into misfortune in tn,
 way Of sickness and injuries whicf led to q bad year.
 O'Doul refutcs the theory that < matter who can lead the leagu. 1 has to be a grim sort Of guy. ODou 1 packs grin with him wherever h, goes, and always manages to get il i 9 good nights sleep. He has taker i the rcvcrses as they came, in ( ! happy-go-l lucky stride Everybod,
 in the loaguc is his friend. | O'Doul is carcfrce but you ough i to meet Lew Fonscca. He will sin; i for you Portuguese di1ty upon tn, 1 slightest provocation. The troubled i Bib Talk, noted as q rumpus make ! in his career with the White SoH ! has found peace with the Indian with Lew for a roommate. Fonscca's Fight 1 Fouscca has fought troubles tha 1 would send q man of unhappia mold smack dab to the booby hatch l Lcw's first year, eight summers ago
 was with Frisco, and he got int, 1 only a few games. In four year at Cincinnati he vas used wherevc | there happened to be q need for uniform to fill In the lineup. II | 1925 the Phils used him at seconC and he whacked out q .319 avera g In 1926. however, he was tr&d",
 to Newark. He avenged himself b.