Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1915 — PLAYERS ARE POOR BARBERS [ARTICLE]

PLAYERS ARE POOR BARBERS

Stuffy Mclnnis Will Never Again Allow Harry Davie and Larry Lajo ie to Bhave Him.

'Larry Lajoie Is making good at second base for the Athletics, bnt he isn’t qualifying as a barber at aIL Stuffy Mclnnis will vouch for that. - On a recent barnstorming trip of the Athletics Stuffy needed a shave badly. The hotel barber shop was full. Lajoie and Harry Davis volunteeed as barbers. -t Lajoie stuffed a towel under Stuffy’s chin. Davis applied the lather. Then Harry shaved Mclnnis. The shave didn’t meet with the approval of Larry. He insisted upon going over Stuffy's face again. He used an upstroke where Davis had used downward strokes. Davis wasn’t satisfied until he had turned the trick once more.’ Mclnnis was game and, in spite of the way his face smarted and burned, he stuck it out to the finish.

Two days later, however, Mclnnis wouldn’t accept another shave from the Davls-Lajoie combination. “Never again,” said Sfoffy. “I want to keep my face."