Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1916 — GLEASON HAS SHARP TONGUE [ARTICLE]

GLEASON HAS SHARP TONGUE

Goes to Relief of White Sox Twirler When Manager Jennings Was Getting His Goat. “Kid” Gleason, formerly assistant manager and general factotum of the White Sox, is noted for the sharpness of his repartee on the ball field. Manager Jennings of the Detroit Tigers had occasion to feel the sting of Gleason’s tongue just before the veteran left the Chicago club. Ilughie, it must be remembered, has been involved in two. serious accidents, each of which nearly terminated his career. First he dived into t}ie swimming pool at Cornell when there was no water in it, breaking bones'innumerable and having to stay in bed for weeks while the doctors patched him up. Later he drove his automobile off a bridge near Scranton and hurt himself so badly that he . was in a hospital for a couple, of months. Gleason, of course, knew all about these two accidents and when the time came he reminded Jennings of them in a way more pointed than polite. The Detroit manager was coaching one afternoon and had taken occasion to make a number of extremely personal remarks to the Chicago pitcher. He plainly was “getting the slabman’s goat,” and Gleason was quick to come to the rescue. ! “Why, you freckle-faced ape,” he yelled to Hugliie. “You have a fine chance to be kidding anybody. You tried twice to commit suicide and your skull was so thick you couldn’t go through with it!” —The American Boy.