The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-03
Cronin Keeps Starting Pitcher Un-Vaned Until Series Opene
GHOST WRITING IS
 INTERESTING PART
 OF SERIES DRAMA
Eddie Klusk, Champion Chester Explains Why
 He Is Without a Job
BY H. ALLEN SMITH United Press Stan Correspondent

New York, Oct 3.-(UP)-The annual gathering of ghosts took place this morning in q public room at the Hotel New Yorker a few hours before the New Yorks and the Washingtons took the field for the first game in the new deal world series.
 As far as the eye could see, these spirits in blue serge suits stood and sat, chewing the rag about the men they'll have to write for all this week.
 There was Bill Terry's ghost, who was fat. He stood in q cor ner talking to Joe Cronin's wrath. The phantom of John McGraw fitted here and there clutching a brief case and glass of beer. Babe Ruins alter ego sat glumly at g table, assassinating hunks of se- lami in company with Ossie Bluege's ghost and the fellow who writes the stuff for Melvin ott.
 Eddie Explains
 Down at the end of the refresh ment table, alone and with lugu- brious cast to his countanance, stood a man apart. He was Ed die Klusk. He is perhaps the most noted of all ghost writers, yet he was without employment. Ed die was ghost-writing when these other ghosts were weathering the 1907 panic, He started out with Chrlsty Mathcwson. He has ghost ed for men in high political office, or hotcha babies, love triangle mur- deresses, missing witnesses, race horses, and contract bridge experts. It Ia, I Joe Jackson, Pancho Villa, Floyd Collins and Gallant Fox.
 They say of Eddie klusk that he once wrote an article under his own name. It was sent back by the editor, who informed Eddie that if he could think up a good alias, like, say, Albert Einstein, they would take 1t and pay him well for 1t.
 Eddie said he got to feeling like Burleigh Grimes, for whom he used to spook, and had to drop in and SC the boys.
 ''What is Bill Terry thinking about right now, an hour before game time?",
 Eddie closed his eyes and de- claimed ns follows;
 Right at this moment" he said, "Bill Terry is wondering how much money they take in at the Empire State buelding observation tower in a year, and how long, at that rate, 1t will take to pay for the build ing"
 "How about Joe Cronin?"
 Hes trying to make up his mind to pitch Crowder or White- hill to-day, and if you want to know it, he's eating ham on rye with no mustard"
 "Listen Eddie, how does it hap pen, that you're not ghosting for Carl Hubbell or Goose Goslin in this series? Seems like you'd have 0 job."
 Just a Switch
 "Didn't you hear about me?" he asked. About the jam l got in? l was doing a series of newspaper articles for a big society dame out on Long Island. I got toured out by force. At the same time l was doing sample piece, unfortunate ly. They wanted me to write un- der the name of George Washing ton Bridge What 1 was supposed to do was to tell how 1t feels to be run over all day long by auto mobiles, trucks, busses, milk wag- ons and speed cops, pal, who was competing with me for a we'll known brain-trusters business, sneaked into my apartment and switched papers. The next day 1t came out under the society dames name, like this:
 "l have bene walked on all day, run over and beaten down, and my cables are weary. But I'm a tough old thing-hard as nails, and can take 1t. The gentlemen of the Port of New York authority took care of that. l weigh tons, and T5m proud of 1t. And to think that l was once just mess of old pig iron"