Show I I 1 RUBE ELLIS FINES FINE EXAMPLE OF BAll BAllI PLAYER FOR YOUNG UNS TO FOLLOW Always Trying Regardless of Conditions I Is Never Known to Sulk in Field By Harry A. A Williams ANGELES Ar July 21 Anyone L LOS with a son Bon on or a dau daughter who aspires as M- pires to become n a professional baseball baseball baseball base base- ball player er would do w well to select George Rube Evans IU 9 at a model for the young oun idea to shoot at Rube is a professional with the heart of an amateur He lie likes e to play ball alL 11 J Thirteen e years of service on n the diamond m have not lessened his love for t the e same game At an age when many a player U 5 a af f soured rd Rube veteran rr is as and fresh e does gesh as h his his work own prude prude- River f. f alfalfa field and aflame with enthusiasm TRYING TRYING HARD He lIe is Is' Is still sUII found fount trying as hard as when he broke in with a reputation to make Run em out on the bases and go after em cm In the field is the notto gov governing his dally daily life None of our oldest inhabitants can recall a sulky moment mo tu- ment In Rubes Rube's entire career careerS a anilee 1 lIe never gasses the umpire unless 9 there thera is ample cause He is aggressive e but dots dot's not gum pum up the pastime Indifferent playing pla is an unpardonable lon ble sin that can never be charged against W him These things explain in a l why he his hAs the populace pulling for him and why he never has outworn his Wei- Wei come In Los Angeles although t nine mae or of hl hI his thirteen years ears as a a. player have e been passed in an Angel uniform REAL LIKING Every player likes the gamp game In the be h ginning Otherwise he would not indulge in fn it as an amateur and get that trainIng training train train- In Ing which fits him for i i. professional ca ca- ca- ca I reer One of the pe peculiar angles of the game Is that many athletes later lose their Interest and regard each pastime as merely so much hard YV wu I Rubes Rube's early career was wae passed on the sandlots dotting the landscape from Rivera to Santa Ana When a mere boy he developed a greater fondness for forthe forthe forthe the great national pastime than for farm labor It Is suspected In fact confirmed confirmed con con- firmed by substantial citizens of Rivera that Rube on sundry Saturday afternoons afternoons afternoons after after- stole away to play ball In his Overalls overalls over Over- alls ails leaving the ranch took alter atter Itself During this time he batted approximately and in n one game crashed out five triples This is believed to be a world record for a guy batting in overalls TOUGH TEAMS At that Ellis was up against some pretty stiff teams a majority of whose players later graduated Into the professional professional professional ranks or had already been there His own club was not so poor either Practically every member of the tho team had league ability had he cared to follow the game The pitchers were none other than the late Andy who made Continued ed edon on on page page 4 I RUBE ELLIS Continued from page 3 3 such a sensational showing with the tle Angels and Walter Johnson vho ho was one of ot the original rubes of baseball but didn't annex the title Although any number of ot persons persona have claimed to be the Christopher Columbus of ot Walter Johnson Ellis unquestionably was one of the first s to his ability as an extraordinary r n y pitcher hitcher Rube Rubo yesterday unfurled a little inside history that tends to puncture the statement that that Frank Franl Dillon passed up Johnson It Is true that Dillon was wa skeptical re regarding regarding regarding re- re garding the tho big Swede Just as all every evelY manager is iss regarding these bush bURh phe- phe so called If a manager signed up every youngster with an Impressive strikeout record In the high school or semipro ranks it would be necessary tor for him to establish a cantonment next to the park parI However Rube kept n the praises of Johnson until Dillon decided to giva him a chance Dilon offered Jhn Johnson OIl a contract calling calling call all allIng ing for a month said Ud Ellis This was big money in those days but Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son because of ot backwardness lack of ot confidence or something else refused to sl sign Big money is right Rubes Rube's first contract contract contract con con- tract signed with Los Angeles In 1905 called for 75 a month and his monthly stipend the second season was the tho same At that time no rte o player in the league was drawing above and only the stars were able to command that Ellis was unquestionably the main Individual factor in winning the fla flag for Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles he rd received I l o only a month with witha b ba a slight batting bonus on the side Today tr the average youngster r r cot breaking breaking break break- In ing in Is Insulted If offered a contract i iI I not calling for tor more than a month I Rube was terribly tickled to start at 75 He lIe probably would have played for half halt that amount What What What-he he wanted was the chance That's the difference between the spirit of 05 and 17 and in a measure i answers the question What is the matter matter mat mat- matI I ter w with th baseball |