Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1915 — CUB FIELDER IS FAST [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CUB FIELDER IS FAST

Williams Is Said to Be Speediest Runner in the Game. « Work of Graduate of Notre Dame University in the Outfield Has Been Spectacular Makes Many Unexpected Catches. A new star has shot athwart the Chicago baseball horizon in the person of Outfielder Fred “Cy” Williams. This young man is a graduate of Notre Dame university and is said by many competent judges to be the fastest runner in the national game. Hte could have gone to Stockholm, Sweden, and taken part in the Olympic game, when Jim Thorpe won so many honors, but declined on aeeount

of his studies. Williams holds the record for hurdling and if a contest is ever put jon for circling the bases he will surely be hard to beat. The other day he scored from second base on the squeeze play. Williams is not entirely a stranger to National league patrons, but it was not until 1915 that he was given a steady position on the Cubs and has been batting over the .300 mark, and some of his drives are the talk of the western half of the old circuit. During the training trip he made eight home run drives, most of them over the outfield fences of the various parks in the South. Recently he made the longest drive in the history of the new ball park at Cincinnati at the expense of Leon Ames, and there were two men on base at the time. In playing the outfield the work of Williams has been unusually spectacular. People have sat in their seats and fairly gasped at some of his unexpected catcheß. He covers so much ground that nothing seems impossible for him to accomplish in the line of catching files.

"Cy" Williams.