Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-20
RUELBACH IS NEAR
 BRINK 0F OBLIVION
If Seven Clubs Waive on Big Ed He Will Pass from
 the Major Class

CHICAGO May 1e.-lf seven clubs of the National league waive on big Ed Ruelback. one or the greatest pitchers of modern times and a chap who has led the older organizations three different times in pitching aver ages, he will pass from the majors.
 It may prove interesting at this time, when largo Edward is on the griddle and is hesitating on the pre- cipitous track of near-oblivion, to re count briefly how this iourishing youth was discovered
 George Hun is the athletic director of the University of Illinois and also the scout for the Chicago Cubs. Col lege men in the west know what a great baseball team the lllini have had ever since the memory of col legian runDeth. IL is a case of let George Do It," for he is the boy who develops and trains this aggregation to that point of excellence where it generally licks the eye teeth out of any other team in the west
 Illinois may not always have the best football team in the west, or even in the state of Illinois; but when it comes to the baseball thing, this Huff is there with credentials and thanks from tho members of the col lege faculty.
 The Hunt Begins.
 One spring, some years back, Hun heard of young pitcher, down in Vermont, or some far away part Of the country, who was doing wonder ftil work. He iourneyed thither to have a look al the pitching marvel. When he got there the place, like the cupboard of old Mother Hubbard. was bare, and the young pitcher he was after had decamped for other fields Of activity.
 Always on the job for material for the Cubs, fluff soon after this heard df another young pitcher who was burning up the bushes. This fellow had everything and the batters were simply walking up to the plate as matter of form, and then walking back to the bench again. Again large George Huff got on the trail and set out for the lurking place of this sec ond twirler. Imagine how disgusted he was and what naughty things he said when he reached the place where the second twirler had been laboring in the baseball vineyard and discover ed that he had also vamoosed.
 Caught At Last.
 There was something mysterious about the whole thing. When Hrifi heard of a third pitcher who Sas standing batters on their heads. be beat it for that rart of the coU ntry without even waiting to throw col lar and a tooth brush into his grip 1 Then he discovered Ruelbach worl- ing under an assumed name. Fre als, [ discovered something else: he foun; 1 that the two other pitchers were 1T reality big Ed, who was college man and used the assumed names tC l protect himself Oh you simon Trr' amateurs.
 PueIbach caWe to the Cubs and th' | rest of his history is pretty wei ! known by the baseball public. acl ! of control has always been tho waai, ness Of the bic fellow. He has pee, i to burn and is the one pitc cler, ac l cording to Hugh Fullerton, who cen; | able 10 throw any old kind ( ball. | If RueIbach passes it will begin tt ! look like the disintegration of th' ! Cub machine. Great he has Jeen Il | the past, and so have Brovva an' i Cveran. Pfeister was also effective | especially as against the New YOri ! Gi5nts, and his passing is markin ! the breaking up Of the old machin | that was Derhaps the greatest cofieC | ton Of men pereorming brilhanti ' together that baseball has ever known