Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-29

! BALI that was destined to make him
! famous.
"And you should have seen the old
man. He never side-stepped thing.
Shoot 'em in, me boy he would say.
Put something on 'em, Amos You're
working fine today That's the way;
straight across and fast
"Well, sir, it was a wonderful sight,
that middle-aged man in street clothes
and with his flowing whiskers Of fiery
red, standing out there on that blis-
tered field, ignoring the taunts and
jeers OF the crowd, warming up his
beloved boy, Amos, who, even then,
was giant and hurricane pitcher.
when the time for the game began
Rusie's father climbed back over the
rail. Amos went into the box, with
Buckley behind the bat and Louisville
was beaten 3 to 0. When the last
one of the visitors had been retired
Rusie's father jumped back into the
field, took Amos by the arm and
walked with him to the dressing room.
It was sentimental spectacle, the
solicitude of the great pitchers father
for his boy and his pride in the young
Hercules work.
Poor Amos! Had he only stuck by
his good old father and ignored the al
legged friends who got him to travelling
in the broad road that leads to early
retirement, not to say disgrace, he
might be in the major league today as
famous and as popular as is old Cy
Young; earning $4,000 or $4,000
year instead Of digging bitches, as he
is, for $1.75 day."
For the first time since the days in
Cincinnati when Tony Mullane used to
switch arms and rest one by twirling
with t'other, there's an ambidextrous
twirler in major league company. His
name is Charles Friene and he is a
member of Connie Macks Philadelphia
Athletics.
Friene first attracted attention as a
ball player while pitching for Santa
Clara college, the institution which
produced Hal Chase, the wonderful
first sacker of the New York High
landers. Then he broke into the Pa
cif1c Coast league, and year ago
pitched game for San Jose against
the Chicago White Sox, in which said
Sox looked like a deck of deuce spots.
They secured six scattered hits of the
youth who switches arms while
pitching.
Whenever the opposing team threat
ems with batting rally, Friene just
uses the other arm, and it is said that
this plan works as effectively as put
ting new pitcher in the box, with
the additional advantage that the old
one can be reinstated, as there is no
rule in baseball that a pitcher can't
change back to the arm he had been
/ using.
That Friene appears to have a good
brand Of goods Is evidenced by the
fact that Manager Connie Mack looked
him over for several weeks on the
spring training trip and then branded
him with you'll do" Friene is still
with the Athletics. He is the only
ambidextrous finger in the major
leagues, and possibly in all leagues.
Lajoie is hitting the ball harder this
spring than he has in several years,
and the prediction is made that the
big Frenchman will lead the league
this year. Lajoie is said to be much
lighter than he has been in recent
years. and with the worry Of handling
the team shifted to Jim McGuire's
shoulders, he is playing much better
ball. What is more, Mcclure is not
allowing Lajoie to play the hit-and-
run game as persistently as he used
to. thus ,handicapping his hitting, for
on most occasions he had to hit at a
bad ball. Now Lajoie just waits for
what he wants and wallops, and he 10
Estting hits in punches.