Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1910 — Thinks Hairpins Give Luck. [ARTICLE]

Thinks Hairpins Give Luck.

Nearly- aR baseball playors-aFe superstitious, and many of them fear a “Jinks.” Tom Tennant of the San Francisco team in the Pacific Coast league seema to be in a class all by himself, however. If some one would search Tennant while playing first base for his team, he would find enough hairpins to stock a country store. Every time Tom finds a hairpin he picks it up and puts it in his pocket. He believes that, If he Saw a hairpin and did not pick it up, he

would not make a hit until he had retrieved. himself, by finding another and storing It away. Judging from the records, Tom must have found a good many hairpins this summer. Occasionally Tow runs across a hatpin, and that is always good for a home run.