Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1911 — Battery of Brothers. [ARTICLE]

Battery of Brothers.

“You bean* a lot about brothers* pitching and catching and making m battery,” says Bob Groom, the toothpick twirler of the Washington Nan tion&ls. “Well, I was a member of the Groom brothers battery once, back! in Illinois. That was before I entered professional ball. I was known aai the ’strikeout king* around St LeulaJ not far from my home, and usually D fanned 15 or 16 men in a game. E didn’t have much but a wide curve,; but, oh, how it used to feaze those lads trying to kit It During the entire season before I entered organized] baseball I averaged 15 strikeouts to m game. "I was billed as one of the Groom: brothers battery and people used to come to see us work. Alec Groom and; Bob Groom got their names in tha papers with great regularity. ' ' V "But Alec Groom wasn’t my brother. Ho was my cousin. However, feWj ever knew that, and we passed for ai jo« to. - oroom -rotter. M*.