Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1913 — COZY DOLAN NOW A PIRATE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COZY DOLAN NOW A PIRATE

Incapacitated by Wild-Eyed Youth on Atlanta Team Who Spiked Him in Sliding to Third. Cozy Dolan, turned loose by the Yankees last year, who now is making good with the Pittsburgh Pirates, offers an explanation of why he wasn’t able to play up to his beßt form under Wolver^on. “It was while the Yanks were training in the Bouth last Spring,” says Dolan, “that I met with the aecifient which drove me back to the spinors. We were playing against the Atlantaclub and had the team beaten by something like 13 to 1. In the ninth inning a young fellow came tearing into third base. v “I had him out easily, but he was a wild-eyed chap and slid straight for me. I wasn’t looking for such a play under such circumstances. I felt the

Jar as bis foot struck my leg, but I didn’t feel any pain and merely gave the youngster the laugh, for bis foolishness. "When I was walking to the dressing room I felt the blood running down my leg. The young fellow's spikes had opened a V-shaped gash in my left leg below the knee. Strange -enough, I couldn’t find any hole in the stocking where the spikes had gone through. . That injury kept me oft the field for several Greeks. “After we went north my leg was still In bad shape. I tried to play a gamo or two, but did so poorly that Wolrorton bad to let me out. Here-

after I intend to keep my eyes on runners coming into the bag, no matter how much the team I am playing on is ahead. „

After Dolan went to Rochester his leg got somewhat better, and in a short time he was one of the best bass runners in the International league. At the end he led the organization with a good margin to spare, and is now exhibiting the same speed In the camp of the Pirates.

Cozy Dolan.