Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1916 — BIG FAVORITE IN MILWAUKEE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIG FAVORITE IN MILWAUKEE

Roger Bresnahan Has Good Reasons for Love of Cream City—-Made Record for Slugging. . Roger Bresnahan, former pilot of the Cubs and now the head of the Toledo ball club in the American association, Is a great favorite in Milwaukee, and every time he visits the city of brew it brings back fond memories to him. The duke once established a world’s record for hitting there. It was in 1901, when Bresnahan was with Baltimore, in the year the American league was born. Connie Mack was manager of the Brewers that year, the Athletics not being In existence. The occasion of the record performance was during a double-header. Mack used Pink Hawley in the first game and Billy Reidy in the second, and Bresnahan enjoyed a batting matinee. In the first game, Roger cracked out three home runs and three triples

at the expense of Hawley, and in the second he rapped Reidy for two doubles and three singles—a total of 28 bases. Although it is 16 years since Roger performed so valiantly, there are fans at every game here who talk about that afternoon, and who live In the hope that they will again see the iron duke duplicate his feat.

Roger Bresnahan.