Evening journal., 1912-01-20
BAKER-COBB
TO The WOODS
Rube Walters Batted asa and
Ran 100 Yards In 9 Sec
OndS, So he Says
M'GRAW GRABS KID;
50 LONG, ATHLETICS

Wen, say. here's a ball player.
"phenom" from Phenomville. He
wants to play with the Giants and
maybe he will. And then again. may
be he will be the successor to Charley
Faust as mascot and goat"
This player is Rube Walters and he
halls from Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
He modestly flashed the tidings about
himself to Manager McGraw and the
Giant manager Immediately set the
wires to Canada on fire in his haste
to corral the rival Of Home Run
Baker and Ty Cobb before any other
major league team grabs him.
Is he as good a batter as Cobb? He's
better. Can he sprint the bases? Such
silly questionsl Why, would you
suspect it? He can run faster than
Arthur Duffy Just imagine, Walters
pummeled the pellet last season for
.454. Yessir, and what's more he
made IA home runs, n three baggers,
and 10 doubles. Singles? He made
so many that he doesn't think it neces-
sary to even mention them.
He played in the Sarnia City League
and the only reason that he didn't
crowd Hans Wagner out of his job
with tho Pirates was because on the
day that Billy Murray. the Pittsburgh
scout was in Sarnia, Rube was sick
in bed and Murray missed him. Can
you beat that for tough luck for Pitts
/ burgh? When Manager Fred Clarke
secs Rube In a Giant uniform break
ing down the stockades around the Ma
tional League stadiums his heart will
ache.
AS a sprinter, Walters resides in tho
! last house on Speed Street. Prepare
yourself for a shock, and then listen to
what he did at the Burns Church pic
mic I'm Sarnia last summer. Rubc
was IN the 100-yard dash and was
away with the gun like a flash. He
sped the century" in seconds fati
FThink of that This achievement is
notable. principally because Of the fact
that it clips S-5 of a second off tho
worlds record, held by Arthur Duffy
and Dan Kelly
Happy oh. yes, joyously happy. Will
be those summer days in Harlem
when vast assemblage of $4,000
people will rise as one man at tho
! Brush Stadium and exclaim ear-split-
ting yells Of triumph when Ruben
Walters laces the pill high over tho
center field bleachers, on, ON. over
! the elevated tracks on. on, into the
limpid waters of the Harlem River.
Score. quick. flash il TO the tickers;
Giants. I Chicago. 0.
Fearful lest a doubling public might,
I'm q tickle moment suspect that Rube
Walters was creation OF a fertile
IMAGINATION, his letter 10 Manager Nc
Ciraw is appended, Just as Rube wrote
lit. spelling and all Get IL.
Manager John j. McGraw, New York
Baseball Club
Dear Sir: have always read of
your being manager who liked 70
SEE q beginner have confidence. Now
/ I am no beginner. I am % years old
and have been playing ball for about
s years In an organized league.
played in the Sarnia City League last
year and batted i54. Now Ty Cobb
hit t2t. know that, but say Bo,
.454 is some better than .42l, aint IT,
! played second base. ] am % years
old. ! am s feet 10 inches tall and
weigh 100 pounds. Last year in 35
games / made "A homers. 2l three
baEgers and 10 baggers. But d. IT,
live up to my usual hard luck. The
Pittsburgh scout came to our town
TO look over the players In the
League and it just happened that
was sick and didn't play the day he
saw our team play.
Now I am a real fast guy on the
bases (stole an average of ? bases
game last season) In the winter
land tall work on my paws farm
out Camlochie way and always am In
the pink of condition.
AZ the Burns Church picnic last
summer I ran 100 yards in . seconds
I am also an all round athlete anf
University OF Michigan offered me
course i'm there schole, Now ] an
certain that / can make good on your
ball team Just take me 10 Marlii
Springs next year and I will MAKE
good. Your can tell Larry Doyle tha
/ viii play short or third if he likes
as IL wouldn't do 10 buck the cap tol
p his Job. Yours hopefully.
RUBE WALTERS.