Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — THINKING ABOUT LITTLE DOG [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THINKING ABOUT LITTLE DOG

Pitcher Slim Sallee Makes Poor Play While Worrying About Lonesome . Pet Left at Home. A group of baseball players were discussing left-handers the other day, and as they ranged from Waddell to Benton to Sallee, they agreed that the man who pitches with his wrong armis always the possessor of eccen—trie moods. “ ‘Slim’ Sallee was working against the Giants at the Polo grounds,” said one member of the group, “and in the seventh inning the Giants filled the bases and needed only one run to tie. A ball was hit to Sallee, but instead of throwing the. ball to the plate and forcing a man, he hurled it to first. When he got

back to the bench the rest of the players began to ‘ride’.him and accuse the pitcher of having been rattled by the shouts of the crowd. “ ‘Oh, let me alone,’ said ‘Slim,’ plaintively, ‘I didn’t mind the crowd. I was just thinking of my poor little dog at home. He’s all alone.’ ”

Slim Sallee.