Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1914 — O’NEILL IS CLEVER CATCHER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

O’NEILL IS CLEVER CATCHER

Voung Backstop of Cleveland Team Is Tall and Rangy, With Fine Build for His Position.

Stephen T. O’Neill, the sterling young catcher of the Cleveland American league club, was born at Minooka, Pa., on July 6, 1892, and is tall and rangy, with a fine build for a catcher. He played independently with the

Minooka Blues until 1910, when he went to the Elmira, New York State league club, now managed by his brother, Mike, the once-noted major league pitcher. He caught 28 games and was released to enable Elmira to keep him from the draft, but Connie Mack’s keen eye caught him and he was drafted by the Athletic club. He went south With that team in 1911, but on the return was sent to Worcester of the New England league, from which club Cleveland bought him in the .fall of 1911.

Catcher O’Neill of Naps.