Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1912 — HOW JENNINGS GOT STARTED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW JENNINGS GOT STARTED

Leader of Detroit Tigers Worked His Way From Pennsylvania Coal Mine to Bar. Hughey Jennings came out of a coal mine without much education or much of anything else. He saw in baseball a chance for something better and he worked both on and off the field to improve himself and his people. After he got through playing ball because his arm wore out he coached Cornell, studying law at the same time, and eventually graduated. When he is not leading his team and tearing up grass on the base-lines he is the head of the firm of Jennings & Jennings, attorneys at Scranton, Pa., near

where he crawled out of an anthracite mine to become leader of two great baseball clubs. He is quite a skillful lawyer—and they say when sticks up one leg, doubles his fists and yells “e—yah” at a jury the opposing attorney quits.

Hugh Jennings.