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Show UO RUBE MAKQUARD WAS NEAR WRECK Pittsburg, July 2-1 Several mem-bors mem-bors of tho Brooklyn team say that losing a game to the Cubs the other day was the best thing that could have happened to Rube Marquard, the I New York Giants' star pitcher. "Had ihe won a few more games Marquard would have been a fit candidate can-didate for the bug house," was the way one of the Dodgers put it "He was almost a physical wreck when we mot him in the east before the present pres-ent trip. It Is true that ho defeated us, but he was so nervous that the slightest untoward happening upset him. His mates were at his side almost al-most every inning trying to take his attention from himself "Every time a fly ball was raised. Rube stood there with clenched fists and shaking Urnbs until It was caught On ono occasion Merkle went over for a foul fly. It was tho third out and an easy one. Fred made tho catch and Horzog had to go up and push Rube off the mound. He didn't even know how many were out. As soon as he reached the bench we wero all watching him Rube wrapped his sweater about his right arm instead of his left, with which he twirls. He had a wild appearance and acted like an escaped lunatic. Ho confided to on of our men that he was so worried wor-ried about his winning streak that he couldn't sleep at night for thinking of it. He made a grand rocord all right, but I am Inclined to bollevo that ho will bo some time In recovering from it." |