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Show GANZEL TELLS ONE ON RUBE WA.DDELL Manager John Ganzel comes to bat with this story on Rube Waddell that may or may not be new. Ganzel, who nover touches liquor in any form, had gone into tho bar room of the hotel with a friend and ordered a glass of ginger ale. Just then Waddell entered with a companion and ordered a beer. Not one of the drinks had boon touched when Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Americans, and also a teetotaler, stepped into the bar room to uso the telephone Connie quickly spied the Rube, but not as quickl;' as Rube had, through tho mirror back of tho bar, caught a flash of the manager to whom he had pledged himself not to touch liquor all year. With a quick motion Waddell exchanged ex-changed his beer for Gnnzel's ale and, holding up tho glass so that Connie could see It, he said: "I'm just having a little ginger ale, Connie. Will you join me?" "And in order to protect the Rube," said Ganzel, in telling the story, "I had to drink the Rube's beer, the "first and only alcoholic indulgence of my life." |