Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1914 — HONESTY OF ATHLETICS’ YOUNG CATCHER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HONESTY OF ATHLETICS’ YOUNG CATCHER

- -77' 1 •/> -4 2 Four words spoken by Wally Schang, Connie Mack’s great young catcher, brought to an abrupt ending an argument which threatened to assume the proportion of a small riot during a game with the Cleveland Naps on Sunday last season. The decision was close, and as the Mackmen were fighting to hold the lead, also was a mighty important one. ■. . . The play came up at the Cleveland League park. It happened on a Sunday about the middle of August Chief Bender was chased from the box that day —Terry Turner scored the first of four runs in the seventh Inning, which gave the Naps the game. Turner made one of his famous head-first slides into the home plate. Billy Evans, who was umpiring, called him out and then immediately changed his decision. To the Athletic players of course It looked as if Schang had touched

Turner out. But Evans noticed that just as Schang tried to touch Turner’s hand with the ball, Terry slipped his hand aside. Schang, instead of tagging Turner’s hand, tagged the ground. Turner then deftly slid his hand back to the plate. When Evans saw Schang apparently touch Terry’s hand, he called him out, but when he saw Terry slip his hand aside and then tag the plate, he pronounced him safe. Athletic players, led by Eddie Collins, ran in and kicked with might and main. Connie Mack wig-wagged with his score card and Schang walked to the Phi lad elphia bench, followed by the kicking Athletics. “What was the trouble at the plate?” Mack asked of Schang. “Didn’t you get Turner?” "No, I missed him,” was Schang’s surprising reply. Fans gasped with surprise when they saw the Athletics return to their stations without saying another word.

Wally Schang of Philadelphia.