Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-20
CHARLEY FAUST
 GIANTS BENNY MASCOT Bug" or Advertiser, Whieh?-Joined the Club in St. Louis.

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 q'he big six-footar wearing the Giant uniform and who does the funny base-ruEing stunt prior to the game IS Charles Victor Faust. Whether he is the greatest ssbug" who ever broke into the game or one of the cleverest advertisers is 8. question.
 You talk to the Giant players and they will tell you that the former term lifts him. Here is now he joined. When the Giants were in St. Louis on their second swing through the west, long, tall, gawky individual showed up at the ball park. He informed McGraw that he was the. first and only mail order pitcher in the business. He claimed that he had read the magazine articles written by Christy Mathew son and Mordecai Brown had studied the pictures showing how they held the ball and as a result was a clever pitcher
 "A bug" said McGraw, and passed the world along. Every man on the Giant team began to kid" him, They had the big, gawky fellow outsat the club house warming up. Finally it came time to leave St. Louis.
 I'm going with you?' quericd Faust.
 Sure answered McGraw. That settled it. Five minutes before the ran into McGraw at the station.
 Where's my ticket?" he demanded.
 'tDion't the botel clerk give it to you ?'' asked McGraw.
 He did not" answered the big fel- low.
 Well, left it with him. and Faus- turned and ran all the way back to the hotel. Of course the team pulled out while he was gone. Nc one expeet to see him again, but when the Giants reached New York there was Faust.
 And then a strange thing happened. The Giants got to going. They licked about everybody that appeared on the New York grounds. Somebody re- marked that it must be Faust. There was absolutely no other way of ac- counting for the string of victories, and the big, tall Kansan, for he came from Kansas and ran away from home at the age of 32. became a mascot
 Some of the stunts that he pulled were wonders. You see the pitchers kidded him into believing that he had all the qualifications of star, t,yirler After a while he became impatient. He must pitch. He demanded a trial, and then it was discovered that he was without ball players license But Faust did the best he could to remedy it. He spent a day in the vicinity of the city hall in New York attempting to get one. The fact that he could never quite locate the bureai; which issued these documents was no fault of l1is
 And still the Giants continued to win. Which made such a tremendous hit with J. T. Brush that he issued in structions to carry the bug around the circuit. Faust wanted to work. One day Leon Ames was going bad and it was but question Of time until he would certainly have to be res eued.
 Said one of the other pitchers to Faust: Now, when McGraw takes the hon orx- fn he the manager and tell him that you are going to pitch that there vii, be no ball game unless you have your wish, and that you are tired of sitting on the bench
 Sure enough, Ames was jerked. Me Graw took the ball from his hands, and you can imagine his humor. Up stepped Faust He didn't say a word, but took the ball from McGraw. What the -:" came from Mc- Graw.
 I'm going to pitch. There will be TO baseball game unless I do," re- marked Faust.
 McGraw looked him over. The hu- mor of it appealed to him. Instead of making a crushing retort, he explained that ha had already told the umpires that Matty would work, but that 1f Faust could square it with the umps it would be all right. And Johnstone had to spend ten minutes in explain ing to the Rube, as they called him, that it was impossible Befure every game now, Faust takes two turns at bat. He hits the ball and starts toward first. He Is always safe, and steals second, the baseman drop ping the ball. Then he pliers third and home, bows to the crowd and goes on his way.
 All of which proclaims him the champion bug Of baseball. But then he travels with the club, is .1uartered at excellent hotels and eats the best of food. He is supplied with spending money, and even spent one week in vaudeville at $100 for the seven days.
 .If he is a 'Rube' he is one who has 1a navG