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OLD ALEX DOES19:daNOT FANCY £PRESENT JOBBv GEORGE KIRK3EY.(United Press Staff Cor respondentChicago, Aug 22 -(UP) -Hr w ■ batting grounders in infield prscuee [ when I walked Into s ball park in ; the hean of Chicago* black belt, where the House of David team was to play Oote'S American Giants, a 1 i negro nine.Even if every other ball player onthe field hadn't been black or wore General Grant whiskers, anyone who had .seen him from the time he broke j in with the Phillies nt 1911 until he pitched hss last game in the National league in 1930 would have immediately recognised himThere never was but one Grover Cleveland Alexander There he stood under the floodlights tossing uo a bail and httUng It with a bat the same tail gauntfigure that graced a major league pitching mound for 20 year* and left behind him the greatest record of anv National League pitcher In that span he won 373 and lost 208Prom a d.-.lance he hasn't changed much He wtill wears hia uniform sloppily *nd hi* cap perched on top k| of his head as if it were too small MP '?Look voode- bm a colored gentleman chirped That* old Alex Wonder 'bout how old he is nowRetch* bout an old ss Methuselah ” When he came into the bench, he confessed to 45 last February. And in that stretch he's been ail the way | up and down baseball s scale. Sixyears sgn he was a world seriea hero and now the national game has reduced him to the level of a manager ! and pitcher for a tribe of be whisker-i ed players touring the ' Oerosene Cir-) i cult** in a
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DuBois Courier Express
DuBois, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Aug 23, 1932
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