The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-28
GEO. CUTSHAW Al
 TIMELY HITTER

1t is notorious that the present naethod of compiling batting averages doas> not always give the fans the cor rect slant in estimating the value Of q ball players stick work. As a case in point, there Is George W. Cut ehaW, the second baseman of tho Bro0klyn club. For several years George has been batting around the ,. .7g0 mark, but he has been as a rule . lot more dangerous to the foe than, that figure would indicate. for the reason that his wallops are so often ok . timely nature. Uncle Wilbert 'has some great swatters on his little old ball, club. but in tight pinch when a hit is badly needed there isn't . man Bobby would rather have at but than Cutshaw.
 George will begin his thirtieth year tomorrow. as he was born on July Se.a 1887, at Wilmington, near Joliet, TIL In his youth he worked In a drug store, and, as the business look a good to him. he decided to study pharmacy and so fit himself to dis pense ice cream, soda water, toilet GpGp. writing paper, perfume, postage stamps and other articles usually compounded in amodern apothecary's 's ahpp. Fired with this ambition, he entered Notre Dame University. but he room became 90 interested in base ban that pharmacy lost it's attraction for him. On thes trength of his col lege record Cutshaw landed a job with Bloomington, in the Triple-I cir cult, where he second-based efficient i1y until mid-season of 1909, when he was called to Oakland in the Pacific Coast League He remained with the Oa1rs until the close of the 1911 sea- con, and early the following year was nold to Brooklyn for a price in the neighborhood of $2.00o. While a member Of the Oakland club Cutshaw found 1t necessary, in the practice of tis profession, to pay frequent visits to Los Angeles. and he was so enarn- ored of the climate and other notori- ous charms of the City of the seraphs that he bought a tract of land in the vicinity and, started a cantaloupe and alfalfa farm. At Last reports Cutsahaw owned but forty acres, but he expects to double his acreage from the pro- ceeds of the next worlds series.
 Cutshaw won for himself a perma- nent place in the dope books of base ball last year when he got six hits in six times at bat in a game against the Cubs at Chicago. This equals the worlds record in modern baseball, but back in 1892 Cutshaw's present boss, Wilbeee Robinson. while playing with the Orioles, got seven hits in row against St. Louis.
 tCutshaw got the highest batting average of his career in 1912. his first season with the Dodgers. when he swatted the pellet at the .2s0 mark. Many pitchers have testified { to their fear of Cutshaw's bat, how ever and not long ago Rube Benton reared his left paw and deposed as follows:
 "You can talk about your danger ous hitters and your 300 gwatters, but the fellow most hate to see como up with men on the bags and the game a close one is George Cutshaw. George is not the best hitter in the league, of course, but he has lots of nerve and is at his best in a tight place. At such . time he is likely to land on almost any kind of a ball, and if hs does connect it is a case of sGood-by. old ball game"
 Cutshaw won the regular second base position at the start of his first season with Brooklyn and he has held down the keystone position for the Dodgers ever since.