The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1916-07-26
old TIME: PITCHERS
Some cf Tie Former Stars Who
won Fan.s on the Diamond. ,
THEIR FEATS or ENDURANCE.

SPe'S"hS TeH Fa'oIeS "HteC tne OFd
Boston Nationals to Victory Four
Years In Succession - Raabourno,s
Great Hecurd--sone Sad Finishes.
What bcronrs of Ill the great pitch.
elS who thrill the baseball puL,lla<c
for day? That depends upon the
agc In which they lived If man
Won his fame In the period from twrn.
ty to forty years ago he probably wont
back ponntlcsS To manual labor whence,
he came, or else lie found IN early
grave. Bat If he was fortunate enough
To make his baseball fame within tho
last score OF years he maysS,ill ir
! drawing gUod salary from "a y club
4 treasury. Or he may be cnjOytn,: p,uS
pcrity as n successful business man
y. q. Spa!dins; was one Of the few
men who won nation wide fame on
the diamond In the earlier period, WAS
(. absolutely unspolCd by 1t ana then fol
lowed II up with even greater fame in
the business world Spaldng jumped
into the limclight rs a Sevcntccn year
Old boy with the Rockford, Gil.) club
way back in 1867. Talk about the en-
F, dunncc Of the modern twirling giants!
man did in the early seventies Dur.
ing that period he was member of
the Boston Nationals and he won tho
! league championship for his team four
years iii succession. lie was Boston's
only pitcher, and En twirlcd every
game the team played. though in
| those DAYS games were scheduled only
every ether day nnG ttr season was
shorter than it IS now
Old timers love to dwell on the prov,
cSs OF CHARLES Radbournc. who shonc
! with quite as much briliinncc as Spnll.
Ing until consumption cut short his en-
rccr, about twenty-five years ago. Rad,
| bourne was 4 member OF the provi
dcnce team. and when Charles Swcc.
ncE deserted that club in midScaSOn
only ltadbournc was left for slab work.
But that hiAn't bother RHdboumc. for
he not only jumped right in ana did
(! all the pitching. but made n now
worlds record by winning eighteen
staI&ht EamcH ana tho championship
for Providence eThis ;.nmcncss. how
ever cost Radlournc hiseiirc. for his
health broke under tho strain which
was generally credited with llnving
caused his consumption
From day lnbOrcr TO the world s prc.
nicr pitcher ana then back again. is. In
Drct, tho history of Amos RUSic who
from 1850 10 1884 thrilled the baseball
world RnSie had q narrow escape
from bcing cast into the utter darkness
Of oblivion before he could got started.
The first day he entered the big league
n ,i-n ,,.,i, Nod 4, d..
ager of the Cleveland roam and found
wanting. After watching him pitch
one game bancroft let him go But
John II. Brush owner OF the Cincinnati
club, had faith IN this youngstcr gave
nm his chance. and Suddenly the re-
cruit blossomcd forth Into the greatest
pitcher of his day But prosperity and
the applause Of the unthinking crowd
were too much fol RuSe
Then there We're Tim Kccfc nnl John
Garrison, about whose respective mcr.
its the fans are still Iiv!drd In 1888
kcctc Won nineteen straight games for
New YORK while in 1890 Clarkson
pitched scr"Htv-two games for Boston
winning forty six Of them. These two
men. whose exploits were hernldcd
from one end OF the country to the
other, were radically different In TEN
reramcnt Garrison utterly ruined his
health by not taking proper care Of
himself and died in nm insane asylum
But Tim Nccfc retired with money III
the bank
] probably more printers Ink was
used TO tell of the exploits Of the &c
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