Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1913 — STREET IN “COME BACK” ROLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STREET IN “COME BACK” ROLE

Veteran Realizes That He Is Worth More Than Maximum Balary Paid in Southern League. Chattanooga fans are beginning to look over the prospects of 1914. The talk of the future was precipitated by the report that emanated from baseball headquarters to the effect .that Mike Giddo, who is farmed out to Troy, may be drafted by the majors and lost to the locals. Giddo, who was farmed out to make room for Hannah, much to the present sorrow of fandom, is now playing sensational ball, and a number of scouts are looking him over. It seems a certainty that he will be lost to the Noogans, as undex their contract with Troy they cannot Tecall him until the close of the season. The interest in Giddo is accentuated by the belief that Street will not be a Lookout next year. There is every possibility that Gabby will be drafted or sold outright to a major league

club, but if he is nat it is a certainty that he will not play another season in a league where the maximum salary is but S3OO per month. Street is .in as good condition as ever in his life, and be realizes the fact; also that be is worth more than the Chattanooga club can pay him. Street signed this year purely as a matter of experiment to determine whether or not he was really passe or merely suffering from overwork and the climate in the east. He suffered a tremendous cut with philosophic equanimity for the purpose of securing the benefits which a season benath a bot sun -would give him. And Gabby haß been amply repaid. He is now ten pounds lighter than he was when he entered the big leagues and in better condition. The rheumatism which bothered him has entirely disappeared, as it was due to uric acid, which has been driven out of bis system by excessive perspiration. It’s back to tne majors or no more baseball with Street.

“Gabby" Street.