The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-02-07
No.Mo,lapwvuk
RUslE's TERRIFIC SPEED.

His Thunderbolt Delivery TerrorIzec
the Battsrs.
A veteran ball player who has bat
ted against nearly all of the noted
pitchers in the last twenty years nam
ed Amos Rusie as the universal stand
ard of speed in shooting the ball across
the rubber.
There have been many fast pitch
ers In baseball. and all Of them In their
time when they cut loose for fair have
bafied the best of hitters with their
speed, but you will notice that when
fast pitchers are spoken of the one
remark is always made, Has he the
speed that Amos Ru le hadr And.
/ think, 1t will be that way forever.
AS long as great names are remember
ed or baseball is the nations game
Rusie will remain the champion speed
merchant, the one pitcher who could
send In the ball faster than any one
else that ever lived. When you say
fast as Rusfe' you don't mean it.
either; you only wish to show that
your favorite pitcher Is a very speedy
boy.
Words fail really to describe the
speed with which Rusie sent the ball
He was man Of great width, great
strength and the ability to put every
ounce Of his weight into the pitch.
Coupled with this he had a set Of daz-
cling curves which were manufactured
with the same effort required to pro-
duce the speed. Some men can throw
a straight ball with great force, but
have to slow mp In order to develop
curves, but Rusie drove In a curved
ball with all of his tremendous power.
Facing Rusie to timid man was
like going into battle must be to an
inexperienced soldier. The distance
was shorter then. Rusie had the
whole box to move around In instead
Of being chained to a slab, and be
simply drove the ball at you with the
force of cannon. I have stood up
to all the great pitchers of nearly
twenty years. I have seen scores Of
them come and go, and none Of them
inspired the terror In g batsman's
heart that was put there by the
mighty Rusie. The bali was like a
white streak tearing past you without
time to balance yourself, figure the
course of the ball or take aim at it
The fellows with the wide curve might
fool you into reaching out and missing
them, but you weren't reaching out at
Rusie-you simply swung at a white
streak as it hurled past, and If you
took full arm swing the ball was
gone and in the catcher's hands before
you had half finished the swinging
motion.
''The convincing proof Of Rusie's ter
rible speed was this: If any other
pitcher hit a man the man swore,
limped a moment and went to first
If Rusie hit a man the man retired
from the game and sometimes went
to the hospital To be hit by Rusie
was worse than to have an ordinary
man smash you with a rock" - New
York World
Forgetting Her Text.
l wanted to see Mrs. Green Brown
ana tell her how much l enjoyed her
lecture on Mind Your Own Business
You can't see her now. She's en-
gagged with some very important cor
respondence. She is just finishing a
letter to Mrs. Stevenson asking how
1t happened that box of bottled beer
was carried into her house last Mon
day afternoon, and then she's going
to write to Mrs. Blinkersdorf and de-
mand to know if it's true that she
smokes a cigarette daily after dinner"
Isn't she perfect wonder ?"-Cleve-
and Plain Dealer.
Flower Scents.
True flower scents are obtained in
three ways-frst, by spreading fresh
blossoms upon glass thickly smeared
with pure grease, letting them stand
In the sun and as they wilt replacing
them until the grease Is as fragrant as
the flowers; second, by repeatedly In
fusing fresh petals In oil. and. third.
by infusing them in ether, which is
then distilled to dry solid.
Gymnastics.
1.-THE late William Vaughn Moody"
aid q Harvard instructor, twas well
liked Moody hated gossip. One of
'ur professors had nasty. venom
,us tongue. and one day this gentle
nan appeared in chapel with bis hand |
led up.
Whats the matter with himT
ome one asked
"'Oh, he's been trying to hold bis