Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1915 — FEDS SELECT WRONG PLAYER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FEDS SELECT WRONG PLAYER

Larry Gardner of Red Sox, One of Least Likely to Jump to Outlaw League —Loyal to Boston. A story was printed recently to the effect that the St. Louis Federals expected to sign Larry Gardner of the Boston Red Sox. The story evidently was printed in hopes of stirring interest in the Sloufeds upon their return home, for Manager Fielder Jones afterwards said it was “the result of a joke." Gardner was with the Red Sox in Detroit at the time and he denounced the story as a base fabrication. A Boston writer commenting on the story says: “From our knowledge of the way Larry Vermont Gardner of the Red Sox looks at such things as promises, even if that promise happens to be a contract to de-

liver his baseball services to the Red Sox for a stipulated term of years, we would say that George Stallings, Clark Griffith, Fred Clarke, Hugh Jennings and Ban Johnson would jump to the Feds before Larry. And these men like the Federal league like pussy loves the mud puddle. Anyhow, we once asked Gardner if there was any truth in a rumor that he might jump to the Feds, and for the msplied doubt of personal honesty, as Larry put it, we came mighty near being crossed off Inrry’s visiting fiat"

Larry Gardner.