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Ilia old stuff • la gone, but Orovar Cleveland Alexander, ostlma “bad boy’I of the big leagues, is atill the atar of th a “kerosene circuit' traveled by tne ) House of David team. He is permitted to shave. Above he appears with acouple of team-mates.MINN MAI OIJS July \T* Hisstrikeout fire may be gone, but Grover Cleveland Alexander, once an outstand-it Irwing . ard In the btg • w 1 is' still packing in the baseball crowds.* Seventeen years of mound duty inig leagues, - lt;rs prof^MiotitlGb.11 in all, have taken a lot of rubber; tut of his arm. but every afternoon or night he pitches for three inningsTouring the northwest with the House lt;i David nine. Alexander does a lot of I bin hurhng at night for the team hap Is along a floodlighting plant which can )♦ s ** t up in a few hours The towns in j which he plays may be the * keroseneI « it uit” to the theater, but there isgold in them for the Davids. For years this bewhfskerad erew has toured t lie small cities, playing their best fora! teams, keeping the turnstiles turmng But Alexander has made an extra turnstile necessary in a lot ofplaces this **«r just because he isOld Ale k.lb* is happy over the provision in hispermits him to shave1every day for it has been a pretty hot : summer.He enjoys the roving, new scenes• very day new players every night hop. j ing for a hit off the pitching of the old , veteran. He doenn t have to work hardbecause his relief pitchers are good♦ rough to keep the David* winning most *of the mm*“1 figure I ran go along for a goodmany years yet.’ Alexander said. *T I Just pitch with whirl I konw. It’s a funny thing about pitchlng~b the time you barn about it, it s usually too lata Put I guess I can get al«ng in this kind of bisebitll about as long as I 1 please.’The man who won two games for the 8t. Louis Cardinals in the 1926 World’s Series against the Yankees and then went in to save the final game for | Jess Haines, regards his strikeout of j Tuny Haxerri as the “biggest kick*’ of his long car*or.I.azzeri was at hat with three Yankees on base in the seventh inning whenthe Cardinals ware leading by one run and Haines faltered.“1 didn't think much of it at the time but afterwards I have certainly gotten a wallop out of it,’ he mused “Good | hitter, that l^asssrl. But baseball pien have told me that what I did afterwards was even better—1 dtdn t givethem n hit or a run.”Rogers Hornsby rises from the shadows of Alexander's memory as the hardest man to pitch to in baseball.“He was much harder than BabeRuth. For the Babe I used a ‘screw ball below his stomach. No speed for that man, but low and slow and he's j not so tough.“Hans Wagner—1 could always fool him. He used to say, ‘Why, that Nebraska farmer, I never can tell whether he is gi\lng me a fast one or a curve I until its too late.' Jimmy Archer or the Cubs, who wasn't much of a hitter in a way, was always poison to me. There Is another thing about Alexan*! der’s new job- -he hasn’t had any disciplinary with the management^ although it was his refusal to keep therules In mind which was * ! 1 withhis final bow from the big league*“Oh, I'm good, they don't have to worry ablt; ut me,” Alexander said “I'm getting older, old enough to know better, yoy know.
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Uniontown Morning Herald
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jul 11, 1931
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