Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1912 — TED EASTERLY NO DUDE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TED EASTERLY NO DUDE

Not Particularly Strong on Sartorial Embellishments. When Cleveland Backstop Reported #* Los Angeles Club He Wae Dressed In Peaceful Valley Dicer and Celluloid Collar. When Ted Easterly, who is playing a remarkably clever game for the Cleveland club this season, pried his way into the professional ranks as a member of the Los Angeles team, he was not particularly strong on eartorial embellishments. While indirectly from the “tall and uncut,” Ted was a human dynamo when It came to getting the informer tlon and was “wise” to almost everything except duds, says the Sporting News. But put him up against the purple and fine linen game and his combined batting and fielding average would have been about .001 at the most. When Easterly reported for the first trip north with the Seraphs he was harnessed up in a Peaceful Valley dicer and a celluloid collar. True, there were other articles of wearing apparel clinging to his person, but it was the haberdashery stuff that gave him the real sparkle. This collar was the type that Is built to an extreme height of five-six-teenths of an Inch, Is Invariably from four to five sizes too large for the wearer and shines with a luster all Its own. Tdd is" believed to have accumulated It In Downey, Cal., which was the scene of his amateur activities. Celluloid collars were considered quite recherche in Downey at that time. Comparatively few of them, however, survive at the present time. „ : ± T j When the team landed In Oakland. Hogan, and Brashear, with Easterly trailing along, drifted into a stogie shack, only to encounter “Bull” Croll

and Joe Nealon, who were then playing with the California “outlaws.” Hogan and Brashear at once started in to “kid” Croll and Nealon. “Come on ‘bushers,’ and have a real class A cigar," remarked Hogan, airily throwing down a five-spot and ordering the most expensive cabbage In the house. Brashear supplemented this with a grand stand play of the same sort and all the time a line of talk was handed out to convey the impression that Croll and Nealon were playing with a sixth-rate league. These were at a loss for verbal vitriol with which to combat the caustic comments of the Coast leaguers until Croll happened to spot Easterly with the celluloid halo about his neck. "Class A, eh? Class A!” drawled Croll, fixing a piercing gaze on Ted. "Say, ‘Hap,’ bring your class A friend with the China egg collar on over here and we will buy him a good cigar”— but Hogan had ducked.

Ted Easterly.