Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1914 — JONES FINED FOR LOAFING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JONES FINED FOR LOAFING

Wisconsin Boy Relates Funny Experience While Playing With Chicago Cubs a Few Years Ago. , “In all my major league career I have been fined but once,” said Davy Jones, who recently signed a contract with the Pittsburgh Federate. “That's a fair record, isn’t It? The assessment was for $lO and I had to* pay it and. never got it back. My offense was alleged loafing on a batted ball, and it happened that I really "wasn’t at all, but I never was able to convince my erstwhile manager of this fact. “I was playing with the Chicago club in the National league and we were fighting New York for the pennant. I was in right field and toward the latter part of the game, which was a very close one, somebody batted one along the foul line. I tried

to get the ball on the fly, but fell About six Inches short and the pellet dropped just outside the line, but far enough out to remove any doubt in my mind as to its being foul. “Instead of running after the leather, I took my time and when 1 got It back to the diamond the batsman had reached third. Imagine my surprise and disgust when the umpire let him stay there, calling it a fair bail. ; : “As soon as I returned to the bench after the inning, I wastreated to another surprise, for the manager told me that my deliberate movements in the field would cost me Just $lO. I paid the money and after that I hustled after them all, fair or foul.”

Davy Jones.