The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-28
BASEBALL NOTES

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 Marty oToole's plea with Dreyfus.
 ot the Pittsburg club to sign Kelly
 HIS battery partner, was pathetic The
 pitcher asked Dreyfuss with tears ir
 ms eyes to buy Kelly. too. and while
 the Pirates leader did not make Mar
 " any promise, he assured him that
 ne Hao not for a minute forgotten the
 catcher II hope to make an offer
 TOT this young catcher that will bring
 him 10 our club also'' said Dreyfuss,
 after O'Toole had made his plea, "and
 l am not so sure that I will not suc-
 ceed In getting him. It was Kelly
 that l sent Murray out to look at in
 the first place and the fans of the | country may be further surprised to | near that have purchased both 1 O'Toole and Kelly
 John Kling, formerly of the Chicago cups, now of the Boston Rustlers. has l issued rather interesting pennant
 lorecast. TOT King names the Cubs to
 When I left the Cubs' says KIing,
 there was one thing I wanted to do.
 could not do this before without just
 l!ttle prejudice, because I had been
 with them so many years. I wanted
 10 ascertain if there was not another team which could take the champion snip away from Chance. But I must
 s.
 of course I may be wrong. but it IS my opinion that Chance still has the pest team in the league. Phila- delphla looks good, and so does the Glants' team, but the Cubs surpass poth Why, Chance does not seem to pitching staff is not weak by any means. Find me lot of twirlers who can surpass Brown, Reulbach, McIn- tire, Cole. Ritchie and Curtis.
 Look at the way his team is hit tlng and fielding. It is strong gener- delphia has good hitting club, but Dooin certainly does not hope to win the bunting with only Alexander and Moore. They cannot hold up and will
 New York is likely to give the Cubs battle, but still I think Chances men nave 1t on the Giants in aggres- slVeness and hitting, and also pitch ing. I cannot figure it any other way put the Cubs. I am not saying this because l want to make myself look good with the Chicago fans It is my honest opinion. Remember my fore cast!'
 Old ball players stoutly maintain nat Amos Rusie was greater than any 'i the present day corps of tWirlers lot even excepting Mathewson Amos won the reputation of being the speed est curve man that ever whipped over oreak came, but just kept on going. me Dig fellow went on his triumph ! way until one day in a game against kH ,h1cago he ripped over a snappy jolt \ hrst to try to catch Bill Lange apping, but instead he did something | his arm that put it out of business.
 While he lasted Rusie was a won CT He led the National league in itching in 1897. From the time he ' 'as a boy out in Mooresville, Ind. he \ 'as star baseball player. When he | rst visited Indianapolis he went to lsslon in life was winning games for \ team in the City League of Indiana oI1S. He started as an outfielder. \ Ut there came time when the regu- \ IT pitcher had to quit, and Amos went and won the game, and pitched om that time on
 Old Jack Glasscock, captain of the lolanapolls team, saw the big young an with the marvellous throwing m, and signed him for the Indiana = 'i1s team. When he got down to .. actice with the Indianapolis team, en owned by John T. Brush, he was
 wild that they thought of putting m in cage and labelling it ''caught
 Borneo' but instead they just farm =
 him out and tried to forget him. nos wouldn't let them He went in- N
 seven games and won six. losing e other by the tight score of 1 to Then Amos returned to fast com ny.
 His first big task was against New TX and he whipped Tim Keefe to tune Of to ?, and this gave him 8 After a time he was sold the New York club and pitched to ch purpose that New York finished H yrho H O went into the Temple tup series w York romped away with four aight games & tusie has long been out of the race of course, there are those who say
 would not figure in the game to- with the heavy hitters. However, man so speedy as to make them gthen the pitching distance is en- ed to recognition, and all the the t1ca1 argument in the world cannot e away from Amos Rusie the cred for his many notable seasons