Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1917 — AGAIN IT’S PRINCE HAL [ARTICLE]

AGAIN IT’S PRINCE HAL

A year can bring some changes. Just a year ago Hal Chase was discredited and almost blacklisted out of organized baseball. He was branded 100 per cent has-been. Finally they let him catdi on with the lowly Reds. That was considered about the worst punishment to a ball player of the class of Hal Chase. • Now will somebody please look over the averages of last year? You will not have to look long to find the name of Chase. It stands second from the top in National league batting. Really he is the leader of the league, as Holke, who had a better average, played in only 34 games. Now it’s again Prince Hal, if you please. In Cincinnati they will mob a man who falls to call Chase the greatest first baseman in the business and not a few fans in other cities will agree to the title. Just a year and it has been done.