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By HENRY McLEMORE(United Press Staff Correspondent)NEW YOItK, Auk. 9.—GroverCleveland Alexander came to NewYork today for the first time without a baseball uniform. He arrived alone on ••business’* Inmarked contrast to his arrival In 1911, when he tumbled off the train with the Philadelphia National league baseball club.The famous old pitcher is lonesome. He admits it.•‘There's no use denying the facts/' he drawled. “It seems mighty strange being here alone without the boys, the excitement of be-fore-tho-game time, and my bagaeems strangely empty without mybaseball equipment/'•‘But I'm not through with bane-balL It may think it's through with ! me. but it’s wrong. I hope to be in there winging ’em across aboutsix weeks before the 1931 season starts and try and get in shape.Says He’s Not Rounder •‘You know*/' he continued, *i am not the rounder they believe Iam.•Til admit I drink. Always have. I’ve had my beer ever since I was knee high to a duck. But if I drank all the liquor credited to me—well,1 just couldn't bold it all/' jOld Alex looked the same way he has for the past 10 years. The same stooped shoulders and weather-beaten face, and betalked with the same, deliberate Jdrawl,•'But I’ll tell you one thing,'* Alex said. If I had my wrhole baseball life to live over again Id never drink a drop. That is, outside of a glass or two of good beer. jLegs Won’t Hold Up |His pitching arm, Alexander said, is about ns good a#? it has been for j the last five years. It’s not his arm that bothers him, but his legs. ; After being given his uneondi- jtfonal release by the Philadelphia J c!ub, Alexander went to the Dallasteam in the Texa* league. j••The sun got me there/’ he said.•‘The first game I pitched it was 112 in what little shade there was.' When the seventh inning rolled around it wasn't a bit less than j2 40. jFrom Dallas, where be w an released. Alex headed for Toledo in the American association. Henever got there, M*T was taken sick In Chicago, j he said, and that’s the truth. |
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Santa Ana Daily Evening Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Sun, Aug 10, 1930
Page 10
Full Page
Clipped by
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