Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1916 — DAILEY’S UNIQUE FEAT [ARTICLE]

DAILEY’S UNIQUE FEAT

One-Armed Twirier Pitches Most Remarkable Game. Shuts Out Philadelphia Club Without Run or Hit —Lee Meadows Handicapped by Wearing Spectacles —Archer Also Crippled. Thirty-two-year-old Pitcher Dailey of Cleveland, then in the National league, shut out the Philadelphia club without a hit or run. Many other twlrlers before and since have broke into the baseball hall of fame by performing this feat, but Dailey stands alone and unique as the one-armed twirier in the history of the game to attain such heights of stardom. Lee Meadows, the Cardinal slab artist, is now considered something of a freak because his lamps are weak and he has to wear spectacles, but spch a handicap is not to be compared with that of the old Cleveland twirier. It is not generally known that Jimmy Archer, the immortal Cub backstop, has a bum wing, but such is the fact. Archer’s deadly right arm is an inch shorter than the left, and terribly scarred. When he was about nineteen, Jimmy, an immigrant from Dublin, was working in a cooperage shop in Toronto. While thus employed he slipped and fell, so that his right arm was plunged into a vat of boiling sap. All of the skin and quite a bit of the flesh was torn away when the clothing was removed, and for weeks Archer was in a hospital. For a time it was thought the arm would have to be amputated, but the surgeons managed to save it, but Archer still bears the scars. Since then he has had his arm broken at the elbow, while most of the fingers of his right hand have been broken or dislocated several times. When it comes to looks Archer’s right wing is far from being pretty, but it still gets him the money, and it Jias won for him a larger measure of fame than has been accorded to any other backstop in recent years.