Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1912 — ATHLETICS RELEASE STERLING PITCHER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ATHLETICS RELEASE STERLING PITCHER

When Connie Mack sent Pitcher Harry Krause down to Toledo the wise ones shook their heads sagely and whispered that the Athletics are done as pennant contenders for this year at least. They looked on the release of Krause as a confession of the weakness of Mack’s pitching staff, the first break in his line of veterans. It means that Mack had resolved to depend on newcomers and take a long phance. Krause was the American league sensation in 1909, but seemed

to shoot his entire bolt that year. Never strong, he was ill the next year and though he went better in 1911, could not stand the going as a big league twlrler mu< This spring he took on weight and believed he would show strength, but when his services were needed most, with Bender lame and Coombs hurt, he failed, and Mack let him go to make room for a desperate chance —some new collegian. And that is all Mack seems to have as a pennant hope—a desperate chance.

Harry Krause, Southpaw, Sent to Toledo.