Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1911 — BILL DAHLEN MEETS POLECAT [ARTICLE]

BILL DAHLEN MEETS POLECAT

Painful Experience Comes to Manager of Brooklyn Team While Rabbit Hunting in New York. Bill Dahlen, manager of the Brooklyn National league baseball team, who. was at Fort Plain, N. Y., recently to attend a reunion of the family in honor of the seventieth anniversary of the birthday of his mother, has “sworn off’’ indulging in his favorite sport of rabbit hunting. Here’s the reason: Dahlen went on a rabbit hunting trip on skis, accompanied by his t*c brothers and some local hunters ol repute. Bill had a ferret to help him. For several hours all went well and he had bagged many bunnies. Then suddenly Bill stumbled on a hole which looked sure of housing a rabbit or two. He sent the ferret on its way and got the bag in readiness. In short order, with countless yelps and unusual noises, out dashed —not a rabbit, but a skunk. Dahlen’a friends are circulating a report that he will use its left hind foot for a mascot during the season of 1911.