Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1915 — BILLIARDS FOR BALL PLAYER [ARTICLE]

BILLIARDS FOR BALL PLAYER

Scientific Pastime Requires Good Eye and Steady Nerve—ldeal Relation, Says John Kling. Johnny Kling, when he was a major league" baseball catcher, believed that Idleness did not pay. Consequently, the ex'-Cub today is earnipg more money than he did when he was a member of the world’s championship Chicago club. He is a billiard expert, and in addition, owns a handsome bil- - Hard room in Kansas City. And all this came abput because he refused to| be idle. “A ball player has considerable spare time when he is on the road,” said Kling in telling about his good fortune. “It is a fact that some of them spend the mornings in bed and the evenings in the hotel lobbies, cases or theaters. I don’t wans to say that it does them any particular harm to loaf and have a good time, but it produces laziness. “1 found that.l liked billiards when T was a young man and devoted ray spare time to that game. I did not do it merely as recreation, but with the idea that I would learn the game and the business and devote my time to it in the off-season and when I quit baseball. I always was able to pick up the right-sort of friends, congenial fellows who,liked the game of billiards, and we spent pleasant and helpful evenings at the green table. Millards is a good 1 aye and steady nerve. That to ideal negation for a ball player.”