Show PITCHER vo PLAY it was a Do deliberate liberato case of over the fence and out connie mack tells I 1 hie lie following story of that great but ee eccentric centric left hander bander rube waddell lie he says we used to put rube kube in center field when ve pitching him lie never wanted to sit on tile the bench and we had to humor him or he be woul tint have bave stayed on the lot all lie was waa a bully fielder too loo one day we ue were having quite a battle with some team and rube was vas covering center I 1 field for us we were being hard pressed with only one 0 out ut the other team filled filed the bases in the fifth in nang nhi and ud a brace of good batters were up ye we had two strikes on the man at bat and then something happened A black cloud of smoke api appeared eared to in the sky back of center held fence va 1 I L lat FT OUT A huril TUE THE 11 and blittle a little later a blaze thru then came caino the clashing and clang lne of tire lire belia and tile clatter of horata hoofs 1 happened to took look in the direction of t the blaze up or ile ho renter center lickl fence I 1 saw rube nube perched at the blaze silhouetted against the red glare of the conIng tation I 1 let out oin a blast that nearly woke the dead rube heard me and looked around ue ile seemed undecided for a moment as to his next move but he long in making up his mind with u broad grin and a graceful salute of his mod hand as if to say so long fellows ho be luis las copped cropped rop ped from sight on the side bide of 0 the fenee and was waa on his ble way ivay to tho the fire |