Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1917 — World’s Series Teams to Play At Lafayette April 4th. [ARTICLE]

World’s Series Teams to Play At Lafayette April 4th.

On April 4th one of the greatest baseball treats in the history of the state will be staged at Lafayette, when the Boston Red Sox, world’s champions for the season of 1916, will meet the Brooklyn Dodgers, their antagonists in the lastxworld’s series, for an exhibition game on Stuart Field, Purdue University. On account of the recent baseball war and in recognition of their indebtedness to the minor leagues the owners of these two great machines have arranged _a series of eight games to be played in minor leage towns only with the view of stimulating interest in 'baseball and to help get minor leage attractions on a paying basis. , On account of the immensity of the attraction, the Lafayette Merchants Association was anxious to secure one of the eight games for Lafayette and with the assistance of Manager Hughes of the Lafayette Red Sox succeeded in landing one. The two teams in traveling have four Pullman coaches and carry 100 in the party, including newspaper reporters from both Boston and Brooklyn.

Among those who will participate in the contest is Everett Scott, of Bluffton, who will hold down the short stop position for the Red Sox. He is the man who cost the Brooklyn team $54,000 in the world’s series last fall. At a critical period in the game when the bases were full and the batter placed a ball in a territory too difficult for the third baseman to handle it, Scott dashed around behind and made one of the greatest stops ever made in baseball, picking the ball off the ground and throwing out the runner at the home plate. To have missed the ball meant a victory for Brooklyn. Scott has played in Lafayette many times at League Park with the Bluffton team, then a member of the Northern Indiana League and his many friends and admirers in this vicinity will be glad of the opportunity to see him in action again. __ The contract with the. two clubs specifically states that only men who were eligible to play in the world’s series last fall shall participate in the exhibition. Among the manjj stars who will be there are Wheat, Merkle, Daubert and Cutshaw with Brooklyn, and Lewis, Hooper, Hoblitzel, Janvrin and Gardner with the Red Sox. The pitchers from which the batteries for the two teams will be selected for the game are Shore, Ruth, Leonard, Coombs, DelT, Foster, Cheney, Rucker, Pfeffer, Davis, Smith and iMarquard. Excursions will be run from all surrounding towns to Lafayette on that day and the merchants have arranged to close all stores at 1:30 p. m. A big crowd is expected to attend and on that account it was found necessary to hold the game on Stuart Field instead of at League Park as at first planned. It is the first time in the history of Purdue University that the field was ever given over for other than an athletic contest staged by educational institutions. Reserved seats are now on sale by the different merchants of Lafayette and may be secured by mail by writing the Merchants’ Association.