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Show HOSIE'S' LIFE STORY BEADS LIKE HOVEL Draws for Eleven Years Annual Salary of $10,000, but Is Broke. Special to The Tribune. WEI8ER, Ida., Sept. 4. Amos Itusic, for elcvon years pitcher for the New York Giants and tho acknowledged champion in his day, was today released re-leased from tho city jail, having served a ten days' sontouco for being drunk. Rusio's life stoiy is like a romance. For eleven years he rccoivod a salary of $10,000 per year, but is now working work-ing on ranches in Idaho, or any other employment that he can secure. Domestic Domes-tic troubles and wine hnvo been the downfall of a once famous man. A hit under the loft eye bv a baseball that i n.iu red his eyesight and his arm failing fail-ing him caused his retiroment from ball playing. Rusie look part in some of the most famous ball games ever played in tho United States. In 1801 lie pitched in an eighteen-inning mmo in New York City against Griffith and jMntthewsou, crack pitchors of tho Chi-cngos, Chi-cngos, winning the game by the score of 1 to 0. Rusie is strong and well and still longs for tho game in which ho at one time was so famous. |