Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1911 — GIANTS SECURE KANSAS STAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIANTS SECURE KANSAS STAR

Harry Rustenhaven, Who Played With Kansas City Last Season, Signs Contract With New York.

In commenting on the signing of Harry Rustenhaven by the New York Giants, the New York Tribune makes the following comment: r Another pitcher of considerable craft and cunning, Harry Rustenhaven by name, sent in his signedv contract to the New York Giants yesterday. The document was mailed from Kansas City, where the youngster is spending the winter. His[ scene of action has been among the .semi-profes-sional teams of the middle west If he is able to duplicate his record in big league circles he might in time outshine .the mighty Matty himself. Rustenhaven belonged to the Abilene (Kan.) teajn before he was drafted by the New York club. He has steadily refused to play out and out professional baseball and would not join the Abilene team last year, playing instead with the Cheyenne Indians, a semi-professional nine. In the season of 1909 he devoted his services to the Kansas City Red Sox with remarkable success.

This particular Indian was lassooed by one of McGraw’s missionaries in foreign fields. He is not a wild one, however. Far from it. As a matter of fact, he has a control so superb that he has been the terror of those in the west, who think they know a baseball when they see one. Rustenhaven is twenty-one years old and a southpaw. He has a capacity for work Which puts the average pitcher who has reached the topnotch to shame. Take a peek at his record: Last year, when working for the Cheyenne Indians, Rustenhaven pitched 49 games, which in. itself may be considered a fair season’s work for a pitcher, and gave him a right to say that he at least earned his salary. But on top of this comes the information that out of the 49 games which he pitched he lost only four, winning 45. It is no surprise, therefore, that the fame of such a wonder reached the nicely tuned ears of McGraw’s scouts. Accompanying his contract Rustenhaven inclosed a letter to the secre-

tary of the New York club,, in which he said that he was glad to get into big league baseball and would do all in his power to “make good,” realizing that It was for his own best interest as well as for that of the club.

Harry Rustenhaven.