Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1915 — IDEA DOESN’T PLEASE HERZOG [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IDEA DOESN’T PLEASE HERZOG

Manager of Cincinnati Reds Peeved at Suggestion of Well-Meaning “Bug’-’ to Avoid Injury. “It seems to me,” bleated a wellmeaning bug, “that the ideas of colorings adopted in uniforms for the European war might be quite valuable for baseball.” “And how so?” queried Manager Herzog of the Cincinnati Reds with a puzzled face. “Why, that’s easy to understand,” explained the bug. “Khaki or greenish gray or bluish gray is a far harder target for the marksman than the brighter colors, while men dressed In white uniforms —like those all clubs

wear on the home grounds—are the easiest marks of all. Now, then, isn’t it only fair to assume that ball players, uniformed in some such color as khaki, would be far harder for the pitcher to hit? Quite a protection from injury, I should think.” “Hard to hit?” squawked Manager Buck. “Make ’em harder to hit? Say, man, what we want is something that’ll make ’em easier to hit —let me have three or four men hit by pitched halls in one game and I’m likely to have enougn runs forced in to win an ordinary game! Make 'em harder to hit, huh? Depart from here by the process of placing one foot before the other, in regular alternation, before you make another suggestion.”

Manager Buck Herzog.