Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1911 — WALLACE O. K., SAYS PHRENOLOGIST [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WALLACE O. K., SAYS PHRENOLOGIST

Dr. Simeon Squeers a phrenologist of Hot Springs, examined Bob Wallace’s head recently. The brain specialist pronounced the manager of the Browns one of the most normal minded men he had ever examined. He did not know his man when he made his diagnosis. Wallace’s head is abnormally developed on the left side. This is as It should be, Dr. Squeers declares. The left lobe of the brain governs the right side of the body, the right lobe the left side. It Is natural, asserted Dr. Squeers, that a man should be right-handed, right footed, right eyed, that the right side should be larger and stronger than the left. Left-handed people are, there-

fore, in maijny cases a bit abnormaL This is especially noticeable in lefthanded pitchers. Most of the “bugs,’* “nuts,” etc., in baseball have been lefthanded pitchers. Waddell is a lurid case in point. Tom Ramsey, the great left-hander of the early days, was also supremely erratic. “Lady” Baldwin, Phil Knell, Bert Jones, Harry Bailee, "Crasy” Schmidt and lek Altrock, all celebrated lefthanders, have been more or less famed for erratic behavior. Evpn Theodore Breitenstein, one of the steadiest of the southpaws, was in his youth wild as a March hare. Eddie Plank and Doc White seem to be the wisest and steadiest of the leftside loopers.

Manager -Wallace of St. Louis Browns.