El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-30
Pu5e 1lqrquard May Be Traded to Boston For Pitcher Tye
SouthpaW Loses Prestige
AS An Invaluable Pitche r
Lack of Spring Training Is Blamed For the New York
Twirler's Failure to Work Up to His 1912 Form,
When He Won 10 Str aight Victories Crit
csms of Fellow Giants Also Hurt.
CBy sam Crane.)

lew YORK, Oct. Some short
NJ year oftes makes g big diff
ference in the prospects, repu-
tation and standing of a ball player,
as evidenced by the reported deal that
win send Rube Marquard from New
York to Boston.
It was only u months ago that
AIarquard had pretty near the cen
ter Of the baseball stage.
What he would do or would not do
was heralded broadcast and there
was at that time terrible agitation
for fear that he might adopt the
''stoige" permanently and leave base
ball flat
Of 1912 was finished RUDE and his
present wife started out on a vaude
vile engagement that took in the
country from east to west RUDE had
won two games in the series between
the Giants and Boston Red SOX for
the championship of the universe. and
he had also during the National
league season won 10 straight games,
tieing the pitching record of cOnsec-
utiYe wins
Return Causes Rejoicing.
Local fans predicted all sorts of
dire disaster for the Giants unless
Rube would deign to play again with
the clan McGraw-
When in March last year, the news
arrived that Marquard had decided to
live up to his contract and play with
the Giants again, a sigh of relief went
I'D from New York fans that sounded
like the blowing Of the wind that
shoots, scoOts and whistles around the
FlatirOn building on a stormy day
1t was fondly imagined that the
success Of the Giants, their ability to
win the National league pennant,
again depended entirely on Marquard
rejOining the team.
There were not a few of the Giants
themselves who imagined the same
thing, and there was much rejoicing
in the Marlin training camp when the
news was received from scout Dick
Kinsella that Rube had announced
his intention of coming back.
Situation Reversed.
But neither the fortunes Of the
Giants, the New York club. the Ma
tional league nor the great national
game appear to hinge on what Mar
guard will do next year. On the con-
trary, RUDE is the one who is on the
anxious seat
That it is the intention of McGraw
10 trade Marquard to the Boston Ma
tionals for pitcher Tyler, also a south
paw tWirler, is the general effect, al
though the prospective deal has not
been authOFitativety announced. But
IL is on tap nevertheless
And one short year has caused Mar
guard TO lose the great prestige as an
invaluable pitcher.
There are some who think that II
Marquard had joined the Giants in
Marlin and had the advantage to be
gained by the spring training he
would have been the same winning
pitcher he was in 1912.
] am one who is OF that opinion.
He did not join the team until the
players were on their way north.
Rube and his wife met the club in
Houston, Texas. and he pitched very
little on the way home. He had to
get into shape in one-day stands, and,
although he tried hard and conscien-
tiOusly to train himself conditions
and circumstances were against him,
and when the championship season
started he was far from being in his
true form. He might have thought
he was, but McGraw knew he was not.
Lack of Training.
1t was lack Of spring training that
put Rube on the back trail He
imagined he was as good as he ever
was. He had the same confidence in
himself as when he was primed to the
pitching top notch, but he was fooled,
as many athletes have been before