Show GUS RUHLIN A BALL PLAYER This gene P l and myself old Gus Oua recently ba have been on acquaintance for ten yam oft ote and on When I worked In the machine and nd pa paper r mills at al Akron I picked up pitching and twirl twirled twirled ed many maDY a game for tor a loci local picked nine I always had speed peed to burn and pretty tair control oat dt the ball HII though control cut tut sack ot of 1 a figure at aas the hit hitt hitten t ten who bumped against my mr delivery shut their rye eyes and swung regardless nibbling at al wild pitches and dipping their sticks at the This down break bk ot the ball HII or the drop as t they b tall call I it I wa war m my pet JIlt Ita Slant It t and I re remember member one game In which J I had the I batters looking like an aggregation of electric ran fan w whole I livery other ball I 1 RJ served wu was a down shoot and th they test blindly for tor It with their bats I truck struck out bUI 20 that day One Ohl of nt th the mana managers or of the Ohio tats a OV over to 10 Akron witnessed my next per performance and offered me UiG per month to io slut with hi his tm team J I preferred a steady job at m my trade howe however and to It tilt till Dill Bill Madden came along and enticed m me Into the pm game Por several winters winless J I played center cent rush NIh with an n Akron football team and 1 d la in exhibition touts bouta at our K gym When I wu was In lal l lag 1111 up my training for the bout with I pitched u three games rame for a 10 cal eaI picked nine I had bad lost loat none of ta tal my l speed and tn my pet corn oun the down sheet hoot w was still a trick that thaI I palmed oft ott as I 1 had fun full control of U II and won two ot of the th throe game m mIt It If J had bad happened to ray cham championship ambition In that J I might hAve signed with wilh one of the turns tm In the California league Hut I Mood ort off the bolter maker I Is M round rou anti and hope to go him one OM by getting the the nut next Uri Uta we meet I am not duck Ruck on making trouble with m my mantle for a living but there Is II mon money In the game foe I a Artt c elan heavyweight and If alt after fig myself out for a year ea or OJ so 10 J I that I cannot annot pull myself out ol of CI or mixed ale 1 cia cias for tor i boxen ox rs I 1 aY be open to otters to pitch ball ll |