The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-24
BIC "ED' WALSH MAY BUY THE
 HARTFORD CLUB
Great Sox Twirler and Owner Clarkin Are Discussing Sale Walsh the Original Spit Ball Ar tiSt Got His Start in the
 Connecticut League

Big Ed Walsh, the premier pitcher of the Chicago White Sox, is after the Hartford franchise and if he can come to an agreement with Manager Clarkin about the purchase price and secure his release from Owner Comiskey of Chi cago he will run the team in Hartford in 1911. In Washington yesterday, Walsh admitted that he was after the Hartford club, which he considers is the best paying proposition in the Con- necticut Baseball League The Wash ington Herald yesterday morning said Tt is believed that the Old Roman will give the big spitball pitcher his release if Walsh is successful in obtaining the Hartford franchise Harry Daniel in the Inter Ocean Magazine has the following sketch of Walshs career:
 Deep in the depths of coal mine, hidden far away under the ground, Where the sun never shines and where the torchlights flicker uncertainty in the damp and semi-darkness. worked a boy. And the boy had his dreams and his ambitions afld his hopes.
 Out in the grand pure air where the sun was shining brightly on sum- mer's day S0.0oO people leaped to their feet involuntarily. almost unconscious ly. from sheer enthusiasm and scream ed and shouted and cheered one of the mightiest heroes of the great national game.
 There is the contrast that marks the career of Ed Walsh, the great pitcher of the White Sox
 On that wonderful right hand and arm that have made real baseball his tory there are great zig-Zag scars that years will never erase and which were put there when he toiled with a torch on his cap far down in the murck pit of Pennsylvania coal mine.
 Across the chasm between these two lives, the miner boy and the star of the baseball diamond, there stretches the romance of a great struggle and the story of a great fight against ter rifle odds and obstacles.
 If you are a fan you have sat in the grandstand or the bleachers on a sum- mer day and you watched that mighty arm dash up and around and out and over. You have seen the ball whirl up to the batter like a faint streak of white and you have seen the most crafty batsmen of the game stand dag ed and perDlexed before the skill of this young giant. And you have cheer ed with a burst of enthusiasm that came straight from your heart if you are Sox rooter and you have ap- plauded in genuine admiration at the wonder of it all, even if your sympa- thies were with the other fellows
 But as you have cheered the strength and skill of this man of steel you were able to guess but faintly what was back of it. Your cheers loud and ringing as they were. would have been louder, I fancy, if you but knew the years of toll. the long days of study and experiment and the bitter biting discouragements that went to pay the price of that mighty arm and that cum ming brain
 On WaIsh's wonderful hands and arms that are some deep scars that run this way and that through the brown flesh like white flashes of lighting. When asked Walsh on a recent day about his early life he pointed to those marks and told me how he got them while working down in the depths of a Pennsylvania coal mine. He is half Irish and half Welsh and comes from a family of miners. He and his father and brothers toiled there together in the anthracite mines of his native city, Wilkesbarre. Pa. He was borp there May 19, twenty-nine years ago, so with that wonderful arm of his backed up by his complete mastery of the pitch CTS science Walsh has many years of ball -1la ying ahead of him.
 And down there in the mines Walsh had his hopes and ambition and his
 
 more than dig coal all his life. Tn his spare hours he played ball and studied but it was not till he was more than 21 years old that he heard the call from the outer world that he knew would come sometime.
 He had been playing ball and had acquired somewhat of a reputation as aspitcher among the miners with whom he associated. Finally a man down in Meriden, Conn, (Attorney C. J. Dan aher) heard of the coal miner up at who had such wonderful speed and the result was that the dreams of the miner boy came true. He had become a professional ball player. His days in the coal pit were over.
 It was on June g, 1902. that Walsh played his first game of professional ball. He had been 2 a month before He played with the Meriden team of the Connecticut State League just a year when he was sold to Newark and at the end of that season he was draft ed into the White Sox.
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