Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1910 — Noted Ball Player Buys Apple Farm in the West. [ARTICLE]

Noted Ball Player Buys Apple Farm in the West.

Mwbel Hite, wife of Mike Donlin, formerly captain of the New York Giants, has purchased an apple orchard in the Chehalia country and during the off vaudeville” season will keep her athletic husband busy fielding pippins, russets and northern spies, scooping Baldwins, winesaps and Ben Davises, or “stealing home” with maiden blushes. Fielder Jones, formerly manager of the White Sox;’ Billy Sullivan, a catcher of the White Sox, and “Doc” White have invested theiri savings in apple orchards and .Mike suggested that the Hite-Donlin combination do likewise.