Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1916 — TIGER WRECKING CREW [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TIGER WRECKING CREW

Harry Heilman Quits Editor's Desk to Join Detroits. Preferred Writing Sporting New* te Playing Baseball Until He Made Hit on Coast —Now Glad He Made the Change. Almost every red-blooded American kid would jump at the chance to join Detroit’s wrecking crew and rub elbows with Tyrua Raymond Cobb, yet one of the present members of the Bengal slugging combine had other ambitions until four years ago, writes Harold Johnson in Chicago Evening Post. Harry Heilman preferred the commonplace career of a sporting editor, and, what’s more, he had a paper of his own until one day after a sand-lot game In which he participated he spied his name in the headlines describing a ball game. Then he weakened. Harry was a member of the United Amateur Press association around San Francisco, made up of amateur editors whose papers are official organs of some sort of organization. He could see nothing greater in, all the world than his name on the sporting page as an author of an article. He ran his publication, called Par eifleo, in Frisco and played amateur ball. Then he was grabbed by the Coast league, and when be saw bis name in big type in the papers hs de-

cided it was better than for him to put someone else’s name where he now was appearing. So he dropped his first ambition and decided to stick to the national pastime. Heilman was drafted by Detroit, later returned to Frisco and was recalled this spring. His work has been a feature of the Tiger playing, and the wrecking crew now consists of Cobh, Crawtord, Veach, and Heilman.

Harry Heilman.