Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1917 — SURE SIGN OF FLAG WINNER [ARTICLE]

SURE SIGN OF FLAG WINNER

First Team to Make Triple Play of Season Bound to Win Pennant, According to Players. According t 6 & St. Louis writer who has. interviewed ball players on the subject, the team that makes the first triple play of the season is bound To win the pennant. The Browns made = the.jrst one in the game against Cleveland on-April 30, therefore, say the superstitious ones on Fielder Jones’ team. they rrre-att set for flag honors. This may be a superstition, but brief inspection of the dope probably would send it the way all superstitions ought to go.