Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — Marquard and Ruth Lead In Votes For Slabmen at Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

Marquard and Ruth Lead In Votes For Slabmen at Lafayette.

All attendance records to an athletic contest are expected to be broken Wednesday afternoon, when the Brooklyn Dodgers, champs qf the National league, and Jack Barry’s Rec Sox hook up for nine frames at Stuart Field, Purdue University. piece military band from the university will head a parade from the business section of the city to the playing field. Practically all lines of business will be suspended for the afternoon. Some of the greatest ball tossens in the country will c ’-vort before the fans on this day. Richard LeMarquis, 'better known as Rube Marquard, maintains his lead in the votes among the funs for their slab choice of the Brooklyeiitcs. Rube won 19 straight games a few seasons back and has had a brilliant career. One of his other notable achievement was a 21 inning victory over the Pittsburg club. Gettysburg John Coombs, the iron man of Connie Mack’s old athletics, is close up in the voting and will probably pitch part of the game, as will Larry Cheney. Babe Ruth, the stocky little southpaw of the Bostons, wiM be on the hill for the Red Hose. Ruth is still a youngtser but has a brilliant record and seems to be the choice of the fans with Dutch Leonard and Ernie Shore as other choices. Myers will probably be behind the log for the Brooklyns with Cady doing the receiving for Boston. ’

Other stars of national repute to be seen Wednesday will be Jake Lewis, Janvrin, Hoblitzell and Gardner, of Boston; Merkle, the Marble Fawn of the Brooklyns, who Jost a pennant for New York in 1908 by failing to touch second base, Wilbert Robinson, manager of the Dodgers, Stengel, Chief Myers and Otto Miller. Silk O’Laughlin and Hank O’Day will officiate.