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11 Mins.; One. A difference between “putting ‘em over” and “pulling ‘em in.” this was proven at Hammerstein’s Monday night. Those who made the test were Hank Gowdy, the premier swatter of the World’s Baseball Champions, and his side partner, the pitching marvel, Dick Rudolph. The team was engaged for Hammerstein’s for the week at a big figure as a box office drawing card, but judging from the house, they are failures in this particular. Rube Marquard, who sat with his wife, Blossom Seeley, in the fifth row, who must have gloried in the fact that he knew just what his confreres were passing through; however, this noted vaudevillian was there with the “Iron Hand” where it came to applause for the newcomers. The turn was introduced by the “Only Loey” who turned loose his ready wit on the audience in an introductory speech. He stated that when the battery was hired for vaudeville they confessed that they couldn’t do a thing on stage so Loney framed the act for them. It consisted of Gowdy showing signals used by him in coaching pitchers, and an explanation by Rudolph of the various style he pitched in the Series. He then warmed up and lobbed over a few to Gowdy, which ended their part of the entertainment. The audience was generous in its applause for the stars of the diamond and gave them enough to warrant a couple of bows, which they took good naturedly.
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Variety, Volume XXXVI, no.8, October 24, 1914