Show nehf pitches again for cubs TT IS rather unusual that a young pitcher should belong to a major IT league club go away and then come back 15 years later inter to turn in a victory for his original owner this has happened in the case of art nehf the veteran southpaw who unexpectedly reared up in hie first few days of the present national league flag struggle and pitched the cubs cabs to a 2 to 0 triumph over the reds it was just another sample of what tunny funny things happen under the big tent writes irving vaughan Vau glian in the chicago tribune roll TO not many folks even the record keepers know that nelia was a member of the cubs before his name ever had appeared in anything but a college box score that was in I 1 j the summer of 1913 when lie he was just oft off the campus of rose kose poly at terre haute ind for several days that season he mingled n the old west side grounds with aith such notables as survived the old chance machine but he display enough to convince john evers then manager of hla his real worth so he was turned loose that he be might seek another road back to the majors ile he long finding the route vir for a season or so after the cubs had bad turned thumbs down on him nelia drifted art nehf around several minor circuits and finally got back to his starting point the terre daute club where he struck a stride that soon had tile the all searching eyes ot of the major leagues on him many clubs wanted hint him but the hie boston bralles beat the others to the wire and the building budding southpaw joined his new mates late in 1015 1915 to start a career that was to take him into four worlds series and the employment of four different national league clubs all his worlds series battles were while he was with the giants nehf happened to fall into the hands of the cubs cuba at tills this late date because an illness that took hold of him the last week of spring training in caused two managers to think lie he was through mcgraw figured his star was wag at the lite end of the rope so sold him to cincinnati for a reported nehf knowing he was in no shape to pitch for anybody tried to balk over the deal because lie he knew mcgraw was selling a lame horse but the cincinnati club fell nevertheless the southpaw was of little use in 1926 because of his trouble that included neuritis in his pitching armand arm and one leg last season he lm praed a bit physically but win regularly enough to account for his big large salary so he was as dropped his first move was to ask mccarthy for a chance and he got it now his condition Is as good as it ever was and it if lie he becomes a steady customer at the pi pitching telling bar it will cause no surprise except to tile the two clubs that let him go 4 |