The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-07-22

there would he no baseball in Brooklyn II
he did not crawl out of the Ohio woods
and assist Captain FoutZ with his wizard
touch, has lately been wallowing with the
common herd The western hired men
have become unduly familiar with Mr..
kcnnedy's once deceptive curves and
shoots, and the head which month ago
wore No. split straw now rattlcs
around in II No. 6 like seed pea in a vel.
low pod.
Killcn, of whose famc.-past and pro.
spcctivc-l told you last spring, has suffer
cd the proud mans contumcly and borne
1ardclS until the temptation of u bare bod
Kin must Sorcly try his fear of dreams,
which may come in that bourne from
which no baseball pitcher over returns, and
oil that sort of thing. Even the once in
vulnerable Achilles Nichols has been shot
In the heel With painful frequency of late
and has walked to tho bench in the midst
of game just like common minor
league pitcher. Then there is the rustic
SON of Cleveland, Farmer Young. bagosh.
whose reputation has received innumcra-
bic bombardmcnts from the catapult bats
of the eastern knights of labor 1.-TWO hours
per dicm).
Head and shoulder above them all in
prowcss now stands Rusic-I,ittlc Annie,
ms he is cndcaringly called in New York
Other heroes of tho curves may go down
but he has stood the unconqucrablc Nh.
polcon Of the ballficid. TO his great work
is due much OF tho Giants recent success
Annie may bc swept away yet by the cpl.
dcmic of heavy batting, but l think he
Will last better than any of them 1t has
been popularity of his work that, like
watermelon, hc never is at his best till
harvest is past. From that time till the
10 no III,
Shirt Is i'll hook he remains king of the
pitchers.
at present Colonel Rusie may be seen
in his majestic might. Physically he
lacks in naught. His right arm is as large
as mules thigh and Is productive Of
equally as much execution. Across the
back no resembles tho gable end of an Gle
plant, and in strength the historic Sam
som may have had few points the better
1don't believe Amos would come out first
best" in d choking match with Il Numidinn
lion, but no can unhngc more ribs with
single pitched ball than any living man
1t Is the undying affection which batsmcn
IN general have for the welfare Of their ribs
which prevents them from humiliating
Rusie before his friends and admirers.
Somewhere back in the eighties John
Tiberius Brush of Indianapolis discovered
Rusic, and when discoveries are remem
Dered with monuments Brush should not
DC forgotten. Columbus discovered Amer
lea, 1t Is true, and without America we
should DO somewhat embarrassed. but
what would America be without Rusie9
Explorer Brush found Rusio in a mat
trcss factory in indianapolis. He heard
there was a big boy in that factory who
pitched good ball for amateur clubs and
as the indianapolis team at that time was
suffering from Il famine of pitchers Brush
penetrated the mattress factory, where he
found Amos st,Iilng hair mattresses with
excelsior. The young Iloosicr was dragged
away TO the diamond and to fame. on
portunity made him great. From Indian
apolis hc Wcpt TO New York in baseball
slavery, aqd from New York there is no
place else to 60 when one is chasing glory.
Now that have recalled the discovery