Show Billy 4 SAYS Ays Eddie Foster one n ot of o the th finest characters that has bas ever ver graced aced tIme major leagues league lies has ha passed out ot of the big bit aho show The Tho Th St St Louis Bron Brow Bro n us announced hi his unconditional release I regretted the tho th exit of Foster Umpiring would be an easy task tk If It very every Try club I was sas as corn com composed com composed posed ot of o nine nin Eddie Fosters Foetors Would n there were wre more mor him the limo game m would be b the better belter for tor or It fair Calr Peal pal sport port depends upon pla It Is the th basic FAir play was 0 Eddie Eddlo rosters roster 0 first name namo Any success that ho he h h has attained In baseball boball was sas as fairly won son in the tb Amerle American league can recall scores of happenings S on Ih lIme ball lait field In which the and fairness of roster has haa come corn to lO lOthe the rescue of ot en an official In dire dlo- dlo dl trets Ms lIs II made modo madea madA In tress ne neer n er a strenuous protest len ti hen he lie be- be be believed the umpire had bad rI cured rd his he told him Mm so ao In a polite yet manner HI HII His word I orda always als con- con the tho umpire that roster a sas I i mistake had been made Ho 0 er Foster Fotr sa 0 was equall equally fall fati when It seemed emel to tb the 11 1 ins that the e had pulled one siere 8 3 s the fault ful lie with It II the piA er I- I old alibi had hatt no place ploce In Inn makeup Any number 0 or Od od er or s a he h baa ha gotten cotton an umpire out of a tough hol hole by telling his team team- tes i he ho had missed th the tho run run run- run run-n npr nr r w when wi-en en some norn player pia er with nub a n fall Call ran ran-atay ay Ide had gotten KOtten asa ana esen en Ifor though Foster had the ball bail salting for bin hin O Ho er to f m my wa wai of thinking that Foster Fostr did during hIs I long and honorable career In the than his game Is more keepIng k of ot the secret that for tor sPy sPy- sev several enabled Russell Rusell Ford Fi-d to 10 tobe Ibe eral oral years of ot the be tho the I pitching pitching- sensation merican rord rend was Vao the first pitcher to t use us the tho tb emery bali lie He kept a piece of emery mery paper concealed ls l's Inthe string and tIed lied to a a the sleeve Iove of ot a n red und undershirt lImit th thith he affected on the th field When hn he h would fit tit the th emerY I paper Into the hole In the th palm ot of othis the belt belton ballon roughenIng C his gloie 10 By male It on the th paper he h could take lake all kinds of ot peculiar t laId laIdFord Ford was 48 credited with being belne a great grat pitcher The pf Ford s a cc success wa was known to his hl catcher catther Eddie and Foster Footer of ot hIs hiram When Ihen Ford was as al at the thO top Foster Footer was vas released by Now ew fame came No club o York to tIme the th bell belled ed edthe doubt rord ord and anti S Sweeney the secret would soon become league gossip gossip- It so no the they didn did's l kilo S roster Shortly or after fter roster rosIer joined d Washington he be fared faced Ford and andruck truck struck out three throe times roster Foster was just breakIng Into the tho majors major at atthe time the tIme tryIng to make good and rord against his hb sort sorri his cause Those Thos three t help heir didn did's strikeouts oud w ha haie hay e been ben enough for many n a player to ha hae have e told the truth to the hea heavens DS Ho Hoel el confIdence had been Foster Fosler In making the ball ban a told how Ford was sas act and he lie was sas loyal to that up For three i a ears while eFord Ford was going big bit guns Eddie roster rooter rot on en another nother of the tho traIn team secret wIth ot of a atul full tul rord s a success kept hI his peace fiddle Eddie Foster Fostr knows s base call Ho Hohas miss 39 bets been a credit to the th gam genie Tru True he has 10 slowed cd up a bit for forthe or orthe the big biff sho show shio's yet et he ha b should make makl t good rood manager manater for or a n club looking for lor a ball ban pIa player er and a gentleman I I I I I |