Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-26

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Chapter ".
Although 1 had been quite a home
run hitter on tho old school lot, and
could now and then poke out a long
one against a league pitcher. still
Jack Dunn saw me as pitcher rath-
CT than as heavy sluEger when the
Orioles went gu, on the International
circuit liked pitching we'll enough.
out as n pitcher could not bat in
every game. and my whole idea was
10 play ball every day. and bat every
day to earn my $500. Bat. especial
~ Somehow or other | never saw
myself as biE pitcher. although the
speed and tho jumps were there in
tho old left arm. My idea OF
wonderful time was knocking tho
ball where some one would have to
climb the fence to get it. Jack Dunn
saw something that couldn't see be-
cause ii you will look back to the
Red SoS games in the worlds series
OF 1916 against Brooklyn. and lolS
against tho Cubs YOU will find total
OF twenty-ninc scoreless innings
crcd!;sd to nc. And this was one
inning moro than any other pitcher
had ever gone hitless in worlds
series work.
Some ball players may know when
there is an ivory hunter in the grand
stand, but | had no idea that anybody
was watching me with the Orioles
If YOU had told me that some Glass
"a =.
might have believed II. But the
surprise 1 got with the second BOOST.
TO $500 was nothing at all to the
sensation Jack Dunn gave ME few
days after that speech making trip
to ST. Mary's, when he told me that
| was going TO Boston. Perhaps he
didn't think ] was such good
pitcher after all.
could hardly believe that made
big league club in my first year out
Only five months since l had been
school hoy, sliding on pond in a
Baltimore industrial school. And the
salary was less bciievahle-S2.500 n
year.
was having much better luck in
tho game than Tom Padgctt. a fine
fellow and a good pitcher. who broke
into baseball at school and was
pitcher. who 'orokc into baseball at
school and was pitching for small
club in the Virginia League. Poor
Tom would have made good am
sure. If he hadn't been killed in an
accident. He was the only other ST.
Mary's boy to get into profession
baseball. hut every year I look for
some good ones 10 come along from
the old school lot back in Baltimore.
Along about this time began
playing 10 the grand stand. But don't
misunderstood me- There was only
one person in the grandstand. Oh.
there might have been from $1,000
to 10000 others. But she'd have 'ocen
the whole crowd among 20.o0o,000.
Dabe Mnrries Miss wOodford.
Did l say she? l believe I did and
I was writing about Miss Helen
Woodford. n Texas girl so pretty that
any time she failed to show up ]
was useless. She was attending a
girls college in Boston, and taking
special course in baseball Mt the
opcn air school in Fcnway Park. She
evidently fell for Professor Ruth, of
the baseball faculty. because one day
in October. 1914. when Professor
Ruth had a class in Baltimore he up
and married her.
And he has been happy every since.
Although this story Is supposed to
he about myself. | wouldn't 90 fair
to myself If l didn't present my nc;-
ter 30 per cent. She knows base
halle and can handle a tcmpermentrl
batter as easily as she handles her
own car. Whenever ! am playing at
home she is at the bail park and she
has learned so much about the fine
points OF the game that she can an
t'cipatc q managers instructions and