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Vern Bickford, ace Boston Braves pitcher, arrived in Boston yesterday and had X-rays taken of his injured side. He was ordered to return for treatment by Manager Billy Southworth...
Among the others who would be praying for Rookie Jethroe were Billy Southworth and the citizens of Boston...
Manager Billy Southworth of the Boston Braves had good reason to be happy during spring training, which is a notably optimistic time of year anyhow. After one of the largest rebuilding jobs in major-league history (TIME, Dec. 26), Billy finally had an outfield. He had given up his keystone combination of Alvin Dark and Eddie Stanky to get Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall from the New York Giants along with Infielder Buddy Kerr and Pitcher Sam Webb. On top of that, his bosses, Boston building contractors, had shoveled out $100,000 and three players to get fleet-footed Rookie...
...Jethroe is my opening-day center-fielder," says Southworth of the 28-year-old East St. Louis-born Negro speedster who is being readied to play his first season in the majors. Southworth's positiveness stems from Jethroe's record with Montreal last season, where he broke the International League record by stealing 89 bases (seven less than Ty Cobb's modern major-league record of 96), batted a neat .326, second highest in the league...
...obvious that if Southworth stayed-and his $50,000-a-year contract had three years to run-the Braves would have a reshuffled team. By last week, 13 Braves who had been on Southworth's varsity in May had been traded or sold and half a dozen more were on the block...