Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — A VETERAN BASE-BALL PLAYER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A VETERAN BASE-BALL PLAYER

Adrian C. Anaon liaa Probably Pkijed His Last Game. It is probable that one of the landmark* of the national game has stepped down and out. Adrian C. Anson, the old ball player and young actor, has, if the news is true, played his last game of baseball After a quarter of a century on the diamond -e has gone t 6 the bench. The

lovers of the game will be sorry to hfear this. The big first baseman, although gruff and sometimes stubborn, was always as straight in his dealings as a “yard of pump water.” No one can pick a flaw in his record. He is the seul of honor, and is a credit to the national game. Although his colossal form will perhaps never agala loom up on the righthand corner of the diamond and the pitchers will no longer fear Anson’s turn at the bat, he is not out of the game entirely. He will be with his Chicago Colts through thick and thin. He will be in the game every day In the capacity of an active manager. Anson is the last of the qjd guard to give up the diamond. Not one of the players that started out as professional ball players when he did is now in the business. Anson saw hundreds of players come and go from the league, but he held on so tenaciously that people came to think that he was to go on forever. Tne reports say that he has decided to retire in favor of a younger and more active man. Here is hoping that the game will be blessea with many more Ansons.

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ADRIAN C. ANSON.