Show old players serve as polo grounds officers there are three ex ball players serving in tho the capacity of special officers at the polo grounds who once held ex tilted positions in the national ge they are amos rusle dan Brout Br outher herx and bill dahlen ruele ruste ranks as ono one of the greatest pitchers of all time ume he ile had a fast ball comparable only with walter johnsons Johna ons smokiest klest and a cure with a whizzing hop had he been lort fortunate enough to have been a boy twenty or thirty years later than he fie V as he would have drawn a salary and had lind bonuses worlds worl ls series aeries cuts and vaudeville contracts to swell his lis bankroll ban kroll but rusle was of the pioneers he played big league baseball when sal aries were low and attendance light his ills steel muscled arm gradually crumbled with the years his blinding speed left him and his curves no longer had 4 break so be drifted out of baseball altogether and atlant at last became a laborer in a lumber yard working with the section gangs he harume had time to think of the glory that had been heen his and to curse an unkindly fate for having been born too soon finally robn mcgraw heard of at his plight and brought him to new now york for a cushy cn shy job and the pleasure or being with men who loved the game as an he had loved it IL rusle has bus been opposed to mcgraw on tho the diamond many times but john admired the burly man who had been the greatest cren test pitcher Lr of his day and gladly provided him a poverty stricken old age |