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Show of the baseball critics believe that hid downfall dated from that day. Out of Big Series. It will be remembered that Wail-dell Wail-dell was so badly Injured that be was 1 unable to participate In the world's series between the Athletics and the New York Giants. And since then I Rube has never been the same pitcher. I Andy Coakley. the dentist fellow, who later played with the Cubs, was j unwittingly Hie cause of the Irst j Injury, and the Rtory, one of the best j of the baseball stories, has never , been told: I You know that baseball plaers have j a custom that gives them the right to smash all .traw hats worn on September Sep-tember 1. it Is the dead lino for the hats of straw, and any athlete who wears one upon that date Is liable to go home bareheaded Well, upon that, particular September 1, the Athletes Ath-letes were making a railroad Jump. I Plan on Little Fun. I They were nparlng Philadelphia and Coakley expected to leave the tenm near the city and visit some friend. As the train came to a halt at the statl"n where Coakley was to depart j be still wore bis hat of straw. Wad-1 Wad-1 ilell and a companion had conspire! I to catch Coakley between them just as j the train pulled out, smash that hat : and Jump aboard the train, leading the dazed Coakley standing upon the plqt-form plqt-form hatless. The train began to move. The. "Uuho rushed upon Coakley fmm one direction anil bis fellow conspirator from tho other. Coakley realized what was to be done. As tho big southpaw pitcher neared him lie threw his suitcase in front of him Down wen W'addoll and upon bis left side. His shoulder was Injured. His elbow was hurt. Me rose and swung aboard the train. Hut never aualn was he the same "Rube." Ho did not dtch in the post season series. And never more could he pitch as he had pitched. Occasionally he would show a flash of the old spe-d Hut It was merely n flash. Career Is Over. Then he Joined the lirown. Several Sev-eral times he was slated for the minors. min-ors. Then he would show jdst enough of that wonderful pitching ability to win back his Job. Hut this time it seems he Is doomed For, should he recover It Isn't likely that he will he even os good as he was when thU Season oronod. Ami as for being as effective as he was In 100.1, it seems Impossible. Kor, in that year h" pitched In 46 games and finished with a pereentice of .730. leading all of Connie's Mack's pitchers. INK WADDELL IST RETIRE Edward "Rube" Waddell most eccentric ec-centric and one of the greatest southpaws south-paws that baseball ever produced to-: to-: nay faces retirement from tho diamond I as tho result of Injuries sustained I to his pitching arm when Kddle Cl-cotte Cl-cotte hit him with a pitched ball In 'the St. Louis Rrown-Hoston Red Sox j game la-t week. I The elbow of the pitching arm was ' broken and the second mishap In I 1 ho career of tho man whom many j consider as the greatest left hand pit-1 pit-1 cher of them all. I Waddell has been strangely unfortunate. unfor-tunate. In the -ar 19'.'.',. one of the j best he ever had. when he practically ' won a pennant f"r tbe Phladelphln ! Athletics, he was injured in a bit of "horseplay" on September 1 and many |