Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1913 — MANY WRITERS IN BASEBALL: [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MANY WRITERS IN BASEBALL:

Another Member of Newspaper Profession Enters Ranks of National Bport as Secretary. When William Locke bought the Philadelphia National league team he was not the first-member of the newspaper profession to occupy the executive chair of a major league club. Ban Johnson, president of the American league, was a baseball writer in Cincinnati 20 years ago. Harry Pulliam was a Louisville city editor before becoming secretary of the Louisville club, and later became president of the National league. Ernest Barnard, vice-president of the Cleveland club, was a baseball writer in COlumbus. President Charley Murphy, of the Chicago Cubs, once wrote baseball for a Cincinnati daily, and ex-President Horace Fogel, of the Philadelphia Nationals, was a Philadelphia baseball reporter. Herman Nickersoh was sporting editor of a Boston newspaper before accepting the secretaryship of

the Boston Nationals, and John B. Foster wrote baseball in New York before becoming secretary of the New York Nationals. Mr. Foster succeeded Mr. R. H. Mo Cutcheon almost at the same time that Mr. H. H Hempstead succeeded Mr. Frank Brush (his late father-in-law) as president of the Giants. They will both keep close watch on Mr. Frank Farrell and Frank Chance, who aspiye to make the “Hilltop'* of the New York American league more popular than the Giants.

John B. Foster.