Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1912 — JENNINGS IS GENEROUS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JENNINGS IS GENEROUS

Allows Many Baseball Stars tQ t Slip From His Grasp. Santa Claus of American League Gave* Ira Thomas to Connie Mack and Jimmy Archer to ChicagoMany Other* Got Away. The management of the Cincinnati baseball team has always been noted 1 for allowing star players to get away and become most valuable members of other teams in the same circuit. In fact, it used to be a saying In the National league that a player never had the O. K. stamp affixed until he had been released by Cincinnati. ..... Now it looks as if Hughey Jenningswas the Santa Claus of the American: league. Certainly Hughey has turned: loose more good men than any of his rivals in the circuit. As a starter he gave Ira Thomas to Connie Mack and big Ira has been the mainstay of the Athletics behind the bat ever since,, helping to cut two post-season melons. Later on Hughey decided he did not like Jimmy Archer’s style behind the bat. He released Jimmy to Buffalo and Frank Chance grabbed him. He has been the one bet as backstop in the National league since that time. Along about that time Jennings had on his list of recruits a Trl-State league outfielder and a Wisconsin pitcher. The New York Yankees were hard up for. players and Jennings kindly consented to let Farrel’s clul> have both men, as he could not figure how. either man could strengthen hls ! pennant winning aggregation. These two recruits were Pitcher Jack Warhop and Outfielder Birdie Cree, each of whom has been responsible for” many a defeat sustained by Detroit. A year ago last spring, when the Tigers trained at San Antonio, two of the Detroit recrnlts were Simmons

and Kirke. The latter was said to be too much impressed with the importance- of Mr. Kirke, and had a bad! habit of frying to knock the glove off' Eirst Baseman Tom Jones even.,' though the latter was standing but a few feet away when Kirke happened to be fielding the ball. He was out to the Trl-State league and recalled toward the end of the 1910 season. He was also carried down south again last spring and then turned over to: New Orleans. He hit the ball hard for the Pelicans and helped New Orleans win the pennant. But when it came time to exercise the right to recall Mr. Kirke, "Jennings passed him up. The Boston Nationals took him and used him the last few weeks of the season. He played in 20 games for the Rustlers and made 32 hits for 47 bases, taking down an average of .860. . George Simmons, the other recruit turned back by Jennings, is now*

booked to be the regular second baseman ot the Net York Americans next season. - J Still another bote up tn the person of Bob Bescher, the Cincinnati oatfielder, who is the champion base runner of the' National league. Pitcher. George Suggs, Cincinnati’s most dependhble hurler, is another Detroit) discard.

Jimmy Archer.

Ira Thomas.