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Meet Harold Gamble

From the coastal town of Felixstowe, the sleepy seaside town in Suffolk, home to 4,000 people, nestled away from hustle and bustle of the big cities where important affairs are conducted, comes a pitcher aged one score years who is likely the most fully-formed baseball player of his age to date.

His name is Harold Gamble, and appropriately named as that what the Clarets of Burnley engaged in by signing him to the richest contract in Baseball League history, at least until Stoke’s Willie Watkins deal last month. Young Mr. Gamble is £108 richer, and well worth it according to the baseball men in the know who have seen him pitch. Several clubs were said to have been pursuing him, which drove his price to unprecedented heights.

Already, Gamble’s control is said to be the best in the game and could scarcely become better. He can throw the ball exactly where he wants to with little effort, and with spectacular movement that will certainly flummox the batsmen of the League. His catchers, William Simms and Charles Dickson, had better be quick with the glove, else there will be many passed balls in their future.

The Clarets think enough of young Mr. Gamble to give him the Opening Day start against the Red Devils of Newton Heath to-day. With the money they are investing in him, it’s no wonder, and the young pitcher had best bring his best to the mound to justify his rich salary.