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; who.!?;.But ny prophecy is -that- rite .will burn up the CoMt t^ague. '', Uftr Oscar Fuhr cam© to the Sox from the Mobil© Club. Down Irt 3ixl©. Oscarwen a surt enough terror. But h« could not deliver1- in the big league. Hie beat performance under the big top'.-. \m* one Sunday n gainst -the Tiger© in. Uetrojt.; That was a couple yearn ago. * We has I the stuff. physically speaking. but. 'just could not seem to deliver It to Vtho HubHoeerpen. ' ”• • ......•• Men have seen- Puhr work In ?the minora and have -marveled at his ©tuff, predicting a Rr©Rt career In the major* for him. But- when lie' came- up—and' bo also was up-'with the oid-Cuba nomo yeara ago —something happened and he could not make the grade. ' Hn .would show everything- in- tho world In pitching practice. In the warm-up session, and then when he got out there on the rubber and faced the baiters ho would mysteriously lose his masterful ways pf • chucking.- Fohl Goes the Limit.'It may be that FUhr Is s pitcher'who can deliver only ■ for. certain managers or to-,certain catchers.• Fohl gave him *11 the chances tn the world and a few more. H© even went, so ‘ fax as to hav© Johnny Hovlng. who caught-Fphr-In Mobile, catch him for. tho Red Sox. But even that was of .no avail. And- now'Kiihr- Is back with Mobil©, and llevlng«r of course, has gono to the Toledo ‘Club In the deal whereby-Alex Canton comes .-to -the Sox.' ' •1a tun lt'.% . — — * .ta ’ _ _ _ *
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St Louis Sporting News
St Louis, Missouri, US
Thu, Jan 28, 1926
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