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Show 1 BMW ITS I SCARCE RMS II Rube Waddell and Bugs Ray-11 Ray-11 mbnd Type of Players Are P" ' But Memories. I Connie Mack :s bemoaning the al- I most total lack of "bugs" in the ma il' jor league this year. The Athletic'? D tall leader says there Is not a single l , ; "nut" In the game today who even JL j closely approaches those two celebrat- 1. ! ?cl "bugs" or a few years back Rube I I. Waddell and "Bugs" Raymond. K A comment on the lack of eccen- m j tries from Connie Mack doesn't seem I quite regular, since he many times R i bad h!s patience sorely tried by the EiJfe antics of Waddell, but perhaps Con- MP&" ale is becoming l'oncsomc for nomo---r' thing that will break the monotony of a American league play, and would not JK ! sven shy at another Waddell. The famous Waddell and Raymond . Wt rc-ill never ba forgotten by baseball jM fan3. Waddell's career with the Ath- M letlcs covered that period from 1902 $n to 1007, and aside from pitching gilt Mi odge ball moBt of the time he put on ; s some of the queerest stunts ever cred- I ited to a man at large outside of an i I Insane asylum, f Running away from the ball park ! and being absent for eeveral days at ( a time, was perhaps his chief offense. 1 While away on these impromptu tours, I Rube would probably be found playing j baseball with, a crowd of youngsters, a carrying water for a construction gang f Dr visiting at some summer resort and j mingling with the vacationists and j , having the time of his Aifc. "Dugs" Raymond wai just as wild. i Raymond, however, loved his liquor ! and generally his eccentricities came to the surfaco only after he had im- C blbed too freely with some friend. Raymond possessed almost auperhu- 1 man strength, and this he used to great jjf . advantage on many occasions, auch as 'A the time he whipped a half dozon or g more cab drivers in New York, as a result of an argument over a baseball ti matter. "Bugs" and .Manager Mc- Efl Graw, of the Giants, hooked up sover- BsjA, al times, and the report Is that Mc- ICraw always had a little something on his eccentric hurler because John knew something of the finer points of the manly art, while Raymond depended depend-ed almost entirely on bull strength. Both Waddell and Raymond were likeable chaps despite the Irregularis , lies of their conduct. Neither of them seemed to caro one whit about money and they wore more often "broke" lhan not. Baseball could not well af ford to support many such chrncater, but for some reason fandom always til seemed ready to give both Raymond jft nd Waddell the glad hand. |