Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1911 — HOW ATHLETICS SECURED STAR INFIELDER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW ATHLETICS SECURED STAR INFIELDER.

Connie Mack can thank his lucky stars that Jake Weitzel, who owns the ‘ Reading team, is a game one and a man who knows what the deuce he is talking about. All of which is a little prologue to Informing the fans that every time they see Frank Baker wallop the ball out of the lot they want to do a little of the thanksgiving to Jakle. Baker was with the Reading team third basing. Connie heard about him, as Indeed, he hears about all of them, and he quietly hustled around and got stacks of dope about the kid. Most of the wise guys told Connie to keep off the young man, and take a wizard named Rath instead.

The lean leader was a bit puzzled at that. He met Weitzel. “I’ll sell you that chap for so much money,” jiald Jake, “and If he don’t make good and be a howling sensation, I’ll buy him back from you for just twice the amount of kale that you swap for him.” Connie purchased Baker, and It is obvious that Weitzel hasn’t a chance to repurchase the terror of Trappe for ten times what he cost Cornelius. Rath came to the champions, and while he was fast and all that, he Is now down among the warbling Orioles, proving that the judgment of some wise guys isn’t worth a nickel on a million dollars. '

Frank Baker, Crack Third Baseman.