The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-20
Cleveland Alexander Now
 Museum Freak
BY HARRY FERGUSON Limited Press Shorts Editor)

New York, Jan. 20.-(UP)-In a nickel museum on 42d street today a man climbed upon a rostrum, waved for a knot of loafers to come closer and yelled in brassy voice: Alexander the Great!"
 Maybe the youngsters clustered around the stage thought it was going to be sword swallower dressed in the armor of the in- vincible king of Macedon; or maybe robed mystic who would read the future for us through a cloudy crystal; or maypbe magician in 8 tall silk hat.
 But, no, 1t was a lanky man ir a wrinkled brown suit. It was z man who had hen-track crease! around his eyes for peering tot much into the afternoon sun of too many summers. It was old Pete Grover Cleveland Alexander him. self. who had come through the snow to this strange by-way o1 Broadway to earn bread and shel- ter in the harsh autumn of his years.
 Odd Company
 He's pitching a ghost ball in a ghostly game every hour on the even hour on the tiny stage in Hu- bert's Museum. He's pitching il with a dead arm and a paunchy bulge at his waistline, pitching it out of the memories of an autumn day long when, truly, he was Alex ander the Great. Sandwiched ir1 among a card trickster, @ floating lady and a jitterbug band, old Pete is playing over and over-for five cents admission-the seventh game of the 1926 World Series when he famed Tony Lazzeri with the bases loaded and two out. He is doing this three miles from the Yankee Stadium where the series was played and a short train ride from Cooperstown, N. Y, birthplace o1 the game where old Pete's name goes up this spring in baseball's Hall of Fame.
 Before he went on with his act I asked him where he had been ane what he had been doing since the swift swing of the seasons hao dropped him out of the big leagues
 T was with the House of Davio team for a while" he said in his lazy drawl. q guaranteed to pitct an inning a day. Then last year went out with semi-pro club that I organized. We didn't do so goo6 Got out in the part of the country where the farmers had been haro hit and they didn't have any money to spend on ball games. Right now got some irons in the fire but none of them are very hot. Had he been behaving himself
 That's a funny thing" old Pete said. T got reputation for being 8 drinker. guess the reason i' that whenever I wanted drink ] walked up to the bar and ordered one. The rest of the fellows bought a bottle and took 1t up to theii rooms. I guess 1t was silly for me tc drink in public like that, but that: the way did 1t. I'm on the wagon now"
 Goes to Work
 It was time for his act, so ole Pete lighted a cigarette and wen through the tiny door and on tC the stage, pumping his head as ht did.
 "Its all right" he said. I'M, heads made of wood, too"
 There was a nervous ripple o! laughter through the small crowc and old Pete shuffled his feet just as he used to do out there on tht mound when the count was three and two and the ball game was ii the fire. Then he began to talk in z low, uncertain voice:
 "I've had some big thrills al right but I guess the biggest ont was in that 1926 World Series. was with the Cardinals and we hae won three games and the Yankees had won three. Jess Haines started the last game for us and alont about the seventh inning he hur his hand. So they told me to gt out there and see what l could do We'll, there were three on base ant Lazzeri was up there at bat and figured he was more nervous thar I was. So started to work on hin kinda careful and then I figured I'd shoot the works. I threw hin @ hook and I'll never forget watch ing that ball as it went down t, the plate. It hooked good an,