Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1911 — HARD HITTING WHITE SOX OUTFIELDER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HARD HITTING WHITE SOX OUTFIELDER

Since Comiskey put his first Chicago American league team in the field one cold, rainy, muddy day in the early spring of 1900, he has had everything in the way of entertainment for his thousands of fans that the game of baseball provides, except one. He has had the greatest pitchers, the cleverest field generals, the greatest base runners, the brainiest fleldrs, the most highly developed team play and a world’s championship. But he never could find a hard-hit-ting outfielder. He has tried scores of

outfielders. He has tested an average of ten per year and out of the lot not one spoiled the reputation of the team as a collection of hitless wonders until he grabbed Ping Bodie from San Francisco. There have been false alarms who hit like a house afire for a few days and then joined the ? procession of hasbeens. But Ping has played long enough to prove his worth. He is the genuine goods—a real hitting wonder —the man Comlskey and his managers have been searching for through ten years of baseball.

Ping Bodie, Popularly Known as “Fence Buster."