Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1915 — TEMPERAMENT A DRAWBACK TO PLAYERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TEMPERAMENT A DRAWBACK TO PLAYERS

Benny KaufT, the Ty Cobb of the Federal league, seems to have developed considerable temperament since the close of the 1914 campaign. The wonderful Brookfield player had several clashes with the arbiters prior to the rumpus with Umpire Johnstone a short time ago which was indirectly the cause of his leap across the Brooklyn bridge. His actions on the field, are taken as further evidence of the ailment that some folk think afllicts Heine Zim of the Cubs and other baseball “prima donnas.” There’s no gainsaying the fact that Benny is a great ball player. His batting, base running and fielding feats of 1914 with the Indianapolis cham-

plons were marvelous. KaufT compiled averages in various branches of the national pastime that made the records of Tyrus Raymond Cobb and other leading lights look positively commonplace. .Not only that, but he threatened to eclipse his brilliant 1914 labor this season —that is, until the symptoms of temperament were discovered. Temperament is a terrible drawback to any ball player, especially for a guy whc throws and bats with his fork hand. It- is a sad, but actual fact that the majority of eccentrio characters of the diamond are lefthanders. And a temperamental southpaw is something else again.