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<2 < . he protested. Tales Of The Great And Only "Rube" Pagliacci, the legendary clown of opera, sang while his heart was breaking, but Rube Waddell, the legendary clown of baseball, made 'diamond 'history while a sports world rocked with laugh- ter. : . One would have to look 'far and wide, however, to find a player as eccentric and unpre- dictable as Rube Waddell, one- time pitcher for Connie Mack and the Philadelphia Athletics. . Before turning to some of the mad things the Rube came up with, it might be well to point out that he still holds the major league record of 343 strike-outs in a season hung up with the A's in 1904. This ability as a pitcher lends point to the following bit of lunacy. On a day when the St. Louis Browns were scheduled to meet the A's, the. Browns' -pitcher, knowing that he had to work against the great Waddell, chal- lenged the Rube to a contest for a $5 bet, The Brown pitcher claimed that he could throw a baseball further than the Rube. Several hours before game time, the two pitchers went to the empty ball park and marched out to centerfield to start their contest. The Brown pitcher threw first and made what he considered a pretty decent heave towards home plate, curled his lips in disdain. , "If that's the best you can do." he sneered, "give the ball to .a- man who can really toss one" The Rube heaved one. The Brown pitcher. voiced amaze- ment. "That was a lucky throw," "You couldn't do that again!" The Rube merely laughed and once again made an incredible peg {rom centerfield to home plate. Still the St. Louis pitcher pre- tended amazement. So, for al- most two hours, the loony Rube kept throwing the ball from one end 'of the field to the other. Finally the Browns' pitcher paid the $5, certain that the eccentric Waddell would be so tired at game time that he wouldn't hav a thing left in his arm. ) All that Rube Waddell did that afternoon was shut out the Browns, striking out fourteen men in the process™On the way to the clubhouse after the game, the Rube caught up with the de- jected St. Louis pitcher. "Say," grinned Waddell. "That was swell practice you gave me this morning. Héte's a buck back for you!" os Ld * * Great -pitcher that he was, Waddell's weakness was his cra¥v- ing for drink. To cure him, Con- nie Mack never. paid him his salary but doled out bare spend- ing money and banked the rest. | gd ANOTHER AWARD -- Dorothy Dandridge's emoting "in "Car- men Jones" won her the "best actress of the year" award at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. 4 The Rube in the Rube's name. The Rube . was hard put to-it to raise the "money for his benders and had 'to work out a number of schemes for getting the money hé needed, One method he used was to walk into a bar and offer the bartender- an "autographed baseball. The ball, he solemnly told him, was the one that he had used in some stirring duel 'with some other great pitcher of the day There were always duplicates, but the recipients never found out. until long after the Rube had. sta¥- gered on his way to some ot be bar. In 1905 the A's won the pen- nant and every member of the team was presented with a dia. mond-studded watch fob. Rube Waddell was proud of his good- luck piece and cherished it highly. Then one afternoon he came to Connie Mack on the verge of tears. "I've lost my- fob, Mr. Mack," he wailed. "What'll T do?" Mr. Mack .suggested an ad in the papers offering a ten dollar reward for its return and when Rube said he had no money for the ad, Mr. Mack offered to pay for it himself. Shortly after midnight, Connie Mack was awakened by the tele- phone. An excited voice greeted - him. "Say, Mr. Mack, my watch fob's been found! There's a guy here holding it. Please come down right away and pay him the ten bucks!" Connie dressed and went down to the corner 'saloon where he-- paid the reward and left with the Rube, who was overwhelmed with his good fortune. After they'd gone a fev Blocks, the big hurler suddenly stopped in his tracks. "Excuse me, Mr. Mack," cried the Rube. "I gotta find out where that guy found my fob!" And off he dashed. ~ In" a few minutes, Rube was back in the saloon, earnestly drinking up the ten-buck reward with the man who had pretended to find the fob. Then' the door of the saloon swung open and in walked Connie Mack. He walked over to his thirsty pitcher,--neeled another -- ten- dollar bill from his roll and droopoed it on the bar. "Here's another ten dollars for the reward in advance, Rube, Just in case you lose your fob again!" The story of - Rube Waddell's - debut 'in major league baseball. is characteristically Waddell. In the late 90's, Fred Clarke, on the' advice of a fan, signed up Rube Waddell- for the Pittsburgh Pi- rates, sight unseen. Three nights later, manager Clarke was awak- ened from a deep sleep at 3.30 in the morniiig by heavy pound- ing at. hig. dgor. "Who is it?" roared the sleepy manager, YA friend. Open up!" replied a voice outside, Clarke opened the door and a big, lanky fellow rushed at him. "Hello, Fred," he greeted the amazed manager. "How are you, old boy. Say, let me have two bucks, will you?" , "Who are you, anyway?" thundered the "surprised man- agers. "I'm your new pitcher! You know me. I'm Waddell, world's greatest pitcher, and I need two dollars because I'm hungry!" To get rid of the loon, manager Clarke said; 4Loaok, Waddell. I'm broke. You go down to the desk and. get the hotel room numbers of my players. You can visit them all. It's the custom of new players to call on the old players as soon as they get in. town, I guess some of the boys will have two dollars left for you." Next morning, Clarke, who had figured that the players would have brained Waddell for J Ww {© Ep REASON FOR JOY doubles. -- Australia's Lew Hoad left) playfully "ruffles teammate Rex Hartwig's hair after they won the cheri- shed Davis Cup, by defeating Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas at "Sanchez; proprietress of a gen- waking them up, got the shock of his life. Rube Waddell had done exactly as he was told. He had awakened all the players during the night and had suc- ceeded in borrowing sixteen dol- lars in two-dollar lots, the play- ers giving up the money to get rid of him, Rube became a star pitcher for the Pirates but the manager finally had to get rid of him. Everything the Rube did was a classic in goofiness. One day, he was pitching in a tight ball game. After retiring the opposition in the fifth inning, Rube -went to the bench. While his team mates were batting, he heard the clang of fire engines just outside the park. Fires always fascinated the Rube. So he slipped out .of the park quietly, chased the en- gines for about ten blocks and saw the fire. It was nearly dusk when the fire was brought under control. Then, and only then, Rube Wad- - dell reminded himself of the game he was pitching and hur- ried back to the ball park. He rushed back to the field, but the game was over and all "the players and fans as well had long since gone home. Pittsurgh traded the Rube away. - He landed eventually with Connie Mack and the Ath- letics.- 'Connie spent a fortune, on detectives to locate his wan- dering pitching ace who, from time to time, disappeared from the club for days and weeks at a time.. Once, after having been AWOL for two weeks, Rube re- ported back to the club and acted as though nothing had happened. When asked by the angry Con- nie Mack if he was ready to pitch, Rube replied, "Mr. Mack, I'm always ready to pitch. I kept in shape all the time I was away by pitching for a team up in the sticks and I won . ten games. Stick me in there- and see if I ain't right." So Connie tossed him .in there and the coel and powerful Rube proceeded to pitch himself a two-hit shutout. And that was after having pitched and won ten games on the sly, making a total of 11 victories in 11 days -- but only one for the record. * » LJ] In 1913,. Rube Waddell's team was in Spring training in the little' town of Hickman, Ken- tucky, on the banks of the great Mississippi River. Waddell was pitching one afternoon, when the cry 'of "The levee has broken!" roaréd through the air. Panic broke loose, Men, women and children ran for their lives. But Waddell, the baseball clown, did not run. He tore off his baseball shirt and, stripped to waist, joined the many other .brave men who pitched in to pile up re WHERE'S THE STARTER?--This Is a race horse but it won't race. Even international efforts can't make it budge. The young people were picking fruit at an agricultural camp near Tiptres, nEgland. When. Dorothy Bottgeléy, of Dedham, Mass., climbed into the saddle she thought she was going somewhere. But the forceful ways of (left to right) Pat Gunn and John Gould, of Cheshire, Heinz Meier from Aachen, Germany, and Karl Ambrosies, a student from Vienna University, were to no avail, "he | .been a clown. ¢ - fall out and the finished paint " pdint' are merely washed with .e3 can be suspended in linseed stubborn paint will give up the <" To love to read is to exchange Treat Paint Brush sandbags to stop the roaring flood on its path of destruction, Rube Waddell worked like a demon * from mid-afternoon till three o'clock the following morn- ing. .When the flood finally was under control and.the town had been saved, Waddell returned to | his hotel room, a worn and weary | man, but happy in the know- ledge 'that he had helped save. lives and property. Rube Waddell was never the same after that day. He -came down with a cold and never quite recovered. He died, at 37, a tragic victim of tuberculosis. And the day the Great Umpire yanked the Rube out of 'the box for good, the calendar read -- April 1, 1914. Rube Waddell, the - hilarious clown of baseball, bowed off the stage of life, as be- fitted a clown -- on April Fool's Day! . i He lies buried in a forgotten grave at San Antonio, Texas, but not forgotten by baseball mem- ory. - Rube Waddell may. have ~ But what a pitcher he was! And what a man! ? Waste Not, Want Not - Have you a gold mine in your basement or. attic? When it comes time for a general clean- up you may find that you have. Take a good look to see if there's any wood or other material 'that can be salvaged from discarded pieces of furniture. Old doors and -table tops often yield good, straight lengths of wood that can be stored away to emerge later as gaily painted garden furniture, shelves or bookcases. Even an old broom handle can be a diamond-in-the-rough when you need a rod for a clothes closet=or legs for a small out- door table. The same thrifty principle applies to dowels from old chairs as well as metal rods, hinges and the like. Old {furniture often contains wood of an unusually good quality, even though hidden un- | der several layers of paint. A ° liquid remover and a piece of * sandpaper, 'then a new coat of" paint or varnish will work won-=3 ders with a forgotten piece of - furniture. Who knows? Your * "gold mine" may produce a val- uable collector's item, With Respect It's quite true that "you get what you pay for" and buying cheap paint brushes is not eco- nomical. The 'bristles will soon job 'will look anything but pro- fessional. . A good paint brush will last indefinitely of you give it pro- per care. This consists of care- ful cleaning and storing after every paint job. To clean brushes of enamel, house paint or oil-base paint, swish in turpentine until all . loose paint is removed. Then wash in warm water and soap, wrap in several thicknesses of paper and put away. Brushes or rollers used. with -latex-base warm water and soap. During an extended job, brush- oil between painting sessions. The brush should never touch the bottom of the container or the bristles will become bent. Even brushes that have be- come hardened with old paint will respond to treatment, How- . ever, these may require soaking in a stronger solvent like paint and vafnish remover before the ghost, Paint brushes treated with respect will do a better job. hours of ennui for hours of delight, ~--MONTESQUIEU "properly Faulty English Cost Their Lives A farm labourer, recently re- turned to Mexico Ly from the United States, an 0 Sony as "El Chino" (the Chtiiese), killed: one man and geriously wounded two _ others 'because they could not speak English as well as he could. According to Senora Herminia eral store, the man came into her store and asked for beer. She refused, for he had obviously . had too much already. The man then turned to Ro- dolfo, Modesto and Felipe, three friends enjoying a quiet beer on a hot night, and tried to en- gage them--in- conversation in | English. Angered at their halting at- tempts to "humour" a drunk, the labourer said, "You and your friends don't speak an English as pure as mine' and Shake- spear's." There could be no re= ply to this and the drunk sup- posedly departed. But outside he lay in wait for the three.friends. When they left, Senora Sanchez -heard a series of shots. Rushing out she ' saw 'her three customers sprawl= ed on the pavement. Felipe was dead, and the other fwo are so seriously hurt they are not ex- pected to recover. Meanwhile the police are try- ing to locate the man so proud of his "pure English." - A Modern Saint When things are not going too well with folk in the Possilpark - district of Glasgow, someon¢ is sure to say: "Try Harry!" . ' It is not that Harry is a wealthy man. He is a lamp- lighter. Some call him Harry the Lamplighter. Many know him better as Harry the Saint. Often on his rounds he has seen some old person who could not-afford to have his shoes re- paired, so he has taken the shoes home and mended them free of charge. But Harry mends more than broken boots and 'shoes. He mends broken friendships and broken homes, too. : Recently a young engaged couple had a quarrel. It seemed they would part. Harry invited them to his home and talked to them. The quarrel was made up. A married couple had. come to. the parting of the ways. Harry took them home for tea. He spoke such common sense that they -agreed to .give their mar- riage another trial. Now they are reported to -be reconciled and Yorbe, : Sometimes Harry. sets aside a day to bake cakes for all the children in the district. Once he found a young couple wha were in danger of losing their home because they could not pay the rent. Harry paid it. s "01d folk bless him. He doe their shopping, lights their fires, and helps them tidy up. Some try to repay him for his kind- nesses, but he. always refuses. Harry used to be a steeplejack, - but six years ago he fell 50 feet from a roof and had to give up his job. Now, as a lamplighter, his responsibility is to see that the: streets of Possilpark are illuminated. But the locals bless him for more than. that. ' . 'DOGS THAT HA "GOLDEN PAWS s 'A dog that was being exer- cised on a_piece of heathland just outside a German town not long ago suddently started dig- ging feverishly. - Two minutes later the animal had turned up a large quantity of valuable coins which are believed to have lain in the ground unsus- pected for centuries. . Many dogs have earned much more than their keep and brought great--wéealth to their masters by scratching up treas- ure. « A terrier owned by a farmer at .Ballaghadereen, in County Roscommon, found ar fortune in a rabbit-hole which consisted of $12,000 in bank- notes, $150 in gold and some valuable documents. ¢ Thirty-two years ago, an Alaskan gold rush was started - by the discovery of a tiny piece of gold in a stray dog's paw. In Australia, too, a dog scratched at a hole and exposed a mass of yellowship rock. The dog's own ersstarted a mine in which gold valued at more than $30,000 was found. : : But for a dog, one of the world's richest sapphire ledges might still 'be. undiscovered. . This dog, owned by a badger- trapper in. Montana, was fond of burrowing. One day the trap- per noticed the animal scraping up many glittering pieces of stone. He coHected them, staked a claim and then made inquir- ies. ' : i To-day that trapper is very fich. 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