Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1914 — BENDER WANTS TO BE ALONE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BENDER WANTS TO BE ALONE

Great Indian Pitcher of 1 ! Athletics Has No Use for Physician During Spells of Illness.

Ih times of illness, Chief Bender, the great Indian pitcher of the Athletics, forgets the veneer of civilization and goes back to the Indian ways. Bender spurns the services of a physician when he is sick, takes no med-

icine, but simply hies himself away and doesn’t come back until he is well again. A short time after Bender joined the Athletics he was taken ill. Connie Mack wanted to have a physician attend the twirler, but Bender shook his head. “I'm sick, but I don’t need medicine,” he said. Connie left Bender’s room for a little while, and when he returned he was surprised to find that the chief had slipped out Inquiries failed to locate him, and when Bender didn’t show up that night or the next day, Connie became worried.

For two nights and two days the search was made for Bender, but to no avail. He couldn’t be found. By this time Connie was almost frantic. Just when he was about to send out a general alarm for his missing Indian star he decided to take another look into Bender’s room, and there he found him buddled up in bed, “Where have you been?” demanded Mack. -

“Sick,” answered Bender. “But you haven’t been in your room at the hotel," said Mack. “Were you at a hospital?” “No. I went away where it was quiet and where I could be alone,’* replied Bender. “When an Indian Is sick he doesn’t want any noise around, Sd he doesn’t want medicine OJ doers. He just wants to let nature tak» its course in curing him.” -

Chief Bender.