Rube Marquard Wins (1912) User Reviews

Will have interest for the male end of the patronage

[deickemeyer · 27 January 2017]

This picture marks the initial appearance of Kalem's "four-a-week," and it will be sure to make a hit. There are 1,323 feet of it, and every one of them will have interest for the male end of the patronage. Marquard takes to the camera as he does to baseball, just "naturally." Perhaps his vaudeville experience stood him in good stead or maybe it was his known modesty. It is a certainty that exhibitors who keep no check on their audiences will find the small boys sitting through to see again the demonstration in close-camera work of this south-paw with the slow ball, the curved ball, the "turkey trot" (one of Marquard's own), and the fast ball. There is, of course, a plot, but it is an excuse only; the interest will center in the baseball pictures, taken at the Polo Grounds. They are excellent. - The Moving Picture World, September 7, 1912

An early baseball classic.

[nh1212a · 10/10 · 16 July 2002]

Rube Marquard, the great New York Giants pitcher of the early John McGraw era, made this film in an attempt to sit out the baseball season. Marquard was heavily into entertainment and frequently squired the leading actresses in New York around town. Very few copies of this film exist.