Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1911 — FRED CLARKE MAKES RECORD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRED CLARKE MAKES RECORD

Although Handicapped by Injured Leg Manager of Pittsburg Pirates Gets Ten Putouts. While a larger number of putouts have been reported made during a single game in minor leagues, it remained for Fred Clarke, one of the “old men" of the Pittsburg club, to establish a record for major league ball. Fted’s ten putouts during the Cardi-nal-Pirate game the other day established a mark that has never been equaled In the “big show,” and the probabilities are that it will stand for some time to come. Only twice, so far as known, has Manager Clarke’s performance been equaled lq any kind of a league. Oh September 10, 1896, .Dick Harley, playing center field for the Springfield (Mass.) club, came through with eleven putouts. On August 17, 1897, Shorty Slagle, playing with Grand Rapidß, chalked up an even dozen putouts. When President Dreyfus was informed of Clarke’s work, also that he

had injured one of hts legs prior to the game, he said: “I wonder what Fred would have done had he injured both legs!”

Fred Clarke.