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Show ROUSH HAS A GREAT FUTURE BEFORE HIM Eddia Boush, crack outfielder of (he Cincinnati Reds, is only 24 years old and in liis ascendancy as a big league star. Eddie was horn at Oakland Citv, Ind., May S, 1MI.', nnd played his f'irt jirofession.il haseljilll wii li Evansville in KM:?, when ho got into four Rami's which went into the records. The next season he was purchased from Evans, ville by the White Sox, and later sent to Lincoln, where he finished tho summer. sum-mer. In 1014 Bill Phillips, then man-atccr man-atccr of the Indianapolis 1-ederals, ot Roush 's moniker sipncrl to a contract, and Eddie played in seven! v-fonr games with the fndiauapolis club, finishing fin-ishing the season with .1 swatting average aver-age of .'',?,?,. In 1!H5 he hU ,') with !he Feds and last year, with New York and Cincinnati, ho finished tho season, hitthifr .-H7. His work with the bludgeon blud-geon tnis year has bon one of the sensations sen-sations of the .National circuit., for along with Walter Cruise of Cue Cardi-nals, Cardi-nals, he has been leading the league with the willow. linsebalj critics think so well of b'oufh that th'y are alradv ranking him as the third lest ou 1 1 bdder in 1h" game, cla-sing with f'obb and Speaker. |