Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-07
BUTT FOR
WITS OF BASE BALL
Canadian Calls MaCk's New
TWirIer E'PriceIeSS
Wonder"

All over the Eastern League circuit
Russell is the subject of much comment
on both the part of the spectators and
the newspapers. A writer in the Mon
treal Star gives Lefty a bit of notice
in the following humorous vein:
With the Baltimore aggregation of pi-
rates came the valuable Mr.. Russell,
who travels in a special car with six
personal attendants to minister unto his
needs and keep him from all harm.
When Mr.. Russell travels on a train a
special pilot engine is sent ahead, taking
out all the kinks in the track, in order
that his feelings may not be Jared in
any way
Mr.. Russell is such an expensive arti-
Gle that he is usually incased in q glass
box, and is allowed to be taken out in
the open air only when the wind is gen.
tie and the zephyrs moderate. A hostile
blast Of the skies would. it is felt by his
keepers, be conducive to irreparable dam
age to the sensitive specimen.
After Mr.. Russell participates in a
game he is carried tenderly to the club
house and there bathed carefully in To-
lions of the brand that have made the
orient famous.
Back to Royal Suite.
He is then carefully dried with sIlken
cloths by skilled hands and transferred
softly to awaiting motor buggy and con-
veyed to the royal suite In the best hos
telry in whatever city he happens to
grace with his august presence His diet
is the object OF much careful thought
and attention, and consists chiefly of
larks' livers a la mode and the juices of
the finest vineyards known to the world
Of viticulture.
The story of how the priceless gent
broke into base ball is one of the most
romantic bits of history of the present
century.
The Star is permitted to first give to an
astonishing world Mr.. Russelrs pathetic
and awe-inspiring story.
i was very sensitive YOUTH" COM
menced the priceless wonder. my
parents felt sure that great future was
before me. and 1 was not allowed to play
with ordinary boys of my age. The lives
of the great men Of history constituted
my daily diet in the world of literature.
My boytsh imagination was fired at turns
by the genius of Shakespeare and of
Keats, the valor of Alexander, Caesar and
Beethoven and Sousa and other masters
In the domain of music.
Poet Warrior Musician.
II felt that I possessed all the gifted
qualifications essential to make me the
poet-warrior-music Of the age. I was
convinced that my destiny had been set
in high places. Assiduously l applied
myself to the work of developing myself
in the paths 1 had chosen in life, but ]
was mistaken. / was not to be poet,
a warrior, a musician.
Carefully as 1 was guarded from all
contact of the outside world, one day a
copy of a daily newspaper fell into my
hands wherein saw the picture of the
great Tip O'Neii, who was then playing
in the outfield of the st. Louis Browns
and the idol Of the base ball world. l.
too, would rise to this eminence, | vowed
to myself; /, too, would be bright lumi-
nary in the base ball armament
Il told my parents OF my fell purpose
and, after vain endeavor to dissuade
me from my mad career. they wished me
godspeed, and / went of to college to
learn the art OF the game. Through dill
gence and hard work / have succeeded,
as you see, and the end OF my glory Is not
yet"
The effort OF talking was telling Sc
verely on the sensitive young thing and
a keeper interviewed and escorted the in
terviewer from the room.
This is the real story OF the expensive
Mr.. Russell Of $4,000 purchase money
fame.