Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1914 — Leg’s Plaster Cast Adorned With Autographs [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Leg’s Plaster Cast Adorned With Autographs

ST. LOUIS, MO. —With the single exception of a thoroughly well-broken leg. William C. Steer, haberdasher and baseball enthusiast de luxe : is all right It had been three weeks since Mr. Steer broke the leg. Shortly after he was

transported to his Waterman avenue home, tenderly placed in bed and then awaited the arrival of the surgical instruments and the plaster of paris. The leg was reset the plaster of Paris was generously plastered around the broken member, and become as hard and irresistible as re-enforced cpncrete. Visitors to the Steer home who journeyed thitherward to sympathize with the hero of the broken leg were requested—and always complied—to an-

nex their signatures to the white surface of the plaster cast. Mr. Steer had broken his leg» therefore it was up to him to break the monotony. Gathering a collection of celebrated autographs on the plaster cast was one of the means to the aforesaid end. S. P. Britton was one of the callers and readily affixed his signature to the temporary covering of the broken leg. Mrs. Britton, who owns the Cardinals, proved that she was no piker by writing her own name in clear, legible. script. Taken all in all, the broken leg of William C. Steer was soon supporting the finest little group of local autographs td be found on any broken leg in this vicinity. Lying in that bed for three weeks was a trying ordeal for Mr. Steer, who is usually active and of a nervous temperament, anyway. It was particularly irksome in view of the fact that outside of the broken leg nothing was the matter with Mr. Steer. It can be safely predicted that he will be in the stands when the umps start the ball to rolling ’round about the midsection of April.