Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1916 — BUG BIT INDIAN BOSS EARLY [ARTICLE]

BUG BIT INDIAN BOSS EARLY

President Dunn of Cleveland Always Cherished Ambition to Become Big League Owner. The new owner of the Cleveland Indians, James C. Dunn, hails from a town made famous by that immortal pioneer of the national pastime, A. C. (“Pop") Anson of Marshalltown, la. It was in the lowa town that Dunn, who now weighs 240 and wears a No. 17 collar, got his start as a contractor. The son of a farmer, he began contracting on a shoestring when nineteen, and has amassed sufficient wampum to buy the Indians or any other old ball club he wants without missing the change. Jim is forty-eight and married. He lives in Chicago. The baseball bug bit him when he was quite young. “I was quite a fan as a kid,” Dnnn says, “but not much of a player. When a ball club was formed in Marshalltown I was made its president. Ever since I’ve been able to muster the cash I’ve had hopes of becoming a bigleague owner.”