Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1912 — DELEHANTY TO RETIRE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DELEHANTY TO RETIRE

Veteran Baseball Player Wants to Be Policeman. Story Circulated in Cleveland That Second Baseman of Detroit Tigers Took Examination for Job on Police Force. ; Jim Delehanty, veteran baseball player and second baseman of the Detroit Tigers, may quit the game after more than a decade of strenuous work on the diamond with various teams to become a policeman at Cleveland, says a special dispatch to the Chicago News. It was announced that Delehanty had taken the examination and had won sixth place on the eligibility list There are 100 men on the elegible list i Delehanty walked off with great honors in the physical examination at the Orange avenue bath house and in the mental examination his showing was also far above the average. Delehanty lives at 11908 Superior avenue, Cleveland, and is a member of the Detroit baseball. team. He has been a member of that team for three years and prior to that time he was a Washington player,. The intimation that Delehanty is “all In” recalls the record he made in a game with the Philadelphia Athletics last fall when his terrific batting was the feature. It is as follows: His first time up saw Del hit the ball at a mlle-a-minute gait to left field. In the fourth inning he hit a terrific grass-cutter to Baker. > The latter just barely fielded the ball, and when he made a belated throw to first Del scrambled to second. In the fifth Inning Del poked a clean hit to Renter field. It was In the seventh inning when Delehanty pulled off his greatest hit. This was a line drive to deep right, and aithough Mnmhv .ffalded the ball In a hurry, the pill was hit so hard that

Delehanty had little trouble making the circuit of the bases. Del had contributed his share all right, but he insisted on “butting in” on the fracas in the glorious eighth. In this inning he took a healthy swing on one of Plank’s curves and this time tripled to right field. If Del had harried on this clout the chances are that be would have stretched it into a home run.

Jim Delehanty.