Show I r WILD PIPE BY I Denver April 5 According to Wild Bill B m last season umpire in Pacific National league who passed through Den Denver ver y yesterday esterday en route to Galveston Tex he be has absolute proof that Rube Waddell remained out of the worlds champion championship championship ship baseball series between the Philadelphia Athletics and the New York Giants last fall for a big money consideration I saw fi a 1 letter Jetter from Waddell written to a player on the coast in which the Rube used the words I 1 got mine old pard and it was something over too in referring to his failure to pitch for fo 0 the Athletics in the series said Set Icy lev yesterday c Rube declared in the letter that a of New York gamblers and stock brokers had made up a purse for him but that McGraw of ot the Giants knew nothing about the deal Several of the players were on however hoever Rube said and bet heavily on the series serles Waddell I developed a very sore left arm just a few days das before the close of the American league season last fall Eastern newspapers were agog over the matter an many things were said about the eccentric pitcher tending to cast east sus suspicion suspIcion suspicion upon him All sorts of causes were given by Waddell to explain the sud sudden sudden sudden den soreness of his arm But Connie Mack stood by the pitcher and It was im impossible possible Do to fix any charge upon mm aim |