Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1914 — SHECKARD IS MAKING. GOOD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SHECKARD IS MAKING. GOOD

Jim's Great Knowledge of Baseball Is Causing Cleveland Team to Be Feared Around Circuit. Measured by the standards of hard work, baseball brains and the attitude his players have toward him, Jim Sheckard, Spider manager, is dhe of the season’s most successful new baseball leaders, despite the position of his club. From the moment Sheckard steps on to the field until the last man is out, he’s hard at work. Not a man

goes to bat until Manager Jim has talked over with him the" probable way he is to hit. During practise Sheckard is always hitting ’em out to the fielders, fielding or coaching some of the youngsters. He has shown every man on the Cleveland team some, new angle of the game. In exenrislng his functions as manager he’s not at all bossy or,arbitralThere isn’t a man in the entire Spider crew who doesn’t like Sheckard. It’s the <consideratlon he has' shown every one of his men that has made him so well liked. Never grouchy, peeved or out of sorts, Sheckard makes himself liked by always having a pleasant word for anyone who approaches him.

Jim Sheckard, Manager of Cleveland American Association Team.