Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1911 — CALLAHAN IS BIG SURPRISE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CALLAHAN IS BIG SURPRISE

Former White Box Manager and Player Is Proving Bensation of Beason In American League. Jimmy Callahan, one of the veterans of the diamond, is the surprise of the baseball season. Jimmy was manager of the Chicago White Sox several years ago and left the club to manage a semi-professional team In the Windy city. Now he la back with the Sox again and apparently playing as good ball as he ever did. Speaking of his come back Jimmy says: “I’ll tell you one thing; It’s not old age' that stops most ball players, It’s the knee. That’s what put out Hamilton, McGraw, Bill Lange, Jack Doyle and Emmet Heldrick. That knee cap will stop any of them. But that’s not my case. I quit when I was managing the Sox. I was having too good a time. But I haven’t beeA really out of It. I was playing ball all the time In Chicago. At one time I had Mike Donlln, Tom Hughes, Jake Stahl, Barry McCormick and myself on my team. That’s pretty nearly a ball club. "As to the reasons for my coming back there are four or five of them.

In the first place, 1 needed the money aiid semi-pro hall didn’t look so good to me, for the party I rented from raised the rent on me from SI,OOO to $5,000 a year. Besides, the American association has just Invested $82,000 In real estate in Chicago and you know what they would do to the semipros. When 1 started they had two other clubs. Now there are 11 semipro dubs in Chicago. One day 1 was pro clubs In Chicago. One day I met Commy and be said he’d like to have me with him again. I was ineligible at the time, so 1 said to him: 'You release me.* He did and they reinstated me and here I am.”

Jimmy Callahan.