Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1915 — BEST BAD BASEBALL PLAYER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BEST BAD BASEBALL PLAYER

Outfielder Gus Williams Holds His Job Through Inability to Capture Flies in Outer Garden. Gus Williams, formerly of the St. Louis Americans and who has just been released to the Toronto club of the International league, is the best bad ball player in baseball; likewise he’s a game guy. Anybody who would take the chances of getting maimed for life by liners that he faces every day deserves a Carnegie medal. No

other player In the history of the game ever capitalized his inability to catch fly balls into an asset that earned him a major league salary. Williams* muff of Hartzell's liner in a game with the Tanks was a classic. Gus didn’t more. He turned his eyes heavenward and held out his hands, like a blind man asking for alms. The pill rammed Gus amidships and bounded away with the resilience of a tennis ball hurled against a concrete statue. Awakening with a start, Gus pursued the elusive sphere and shot it to second, but Hsxtzell beat the throw.

Gus Williams.