Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1913 — ASSUMED NAMES IN FEDERAL [ARTICLE]

ASSUMED NAMES IN FEDERAL

Practice Is Growing Less as New League Establishes Itself on Substantial Basis. With the feeling gaining ground among ball players that the Federal league has been established on a substantial basis, the number of men performing in the organization under assumed names is each day growing less. At the outset it was not unusual for a ball tosser to ally himself with the new company under some cognomen not his own, being fearful lest the league might “blow” before the season was over [ and leave him in some sort of a state resembling embarrassment. i This condition is now almost a thing of the past. One of the last players to come into the league with an adopted “handle” is Ted Warring, former well-known Terre Haute catcher, who is pastiming with Jack O’Connor and his St Louis club here this week as a right fielder under the name of O’Neil. Ted attracted attention to himsetf during the fracas with Umpire Conklin in a recent game, and almost gave himself away. He is known as an aggressive ball player and a capable performer behind the bat