Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1917 — ONE TIGER WAS OVERLOOKED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ONE TIGER WAS OVERLOOKED

Manager Rowland of White Sox Underrated Hitting Ability of Southpaw Coveleskie. “When I had my short try-out with the White Sox,” says Hod Eller, one of the Cincinnati recruit pitchers. “I shared in some marvelous managerial instructions. Yea, verily, as the good book says, I’ll never forget our first game against Detroit. Manager Rowland carefully went through

the list of the Detroit batters and explained just what each Tiger could and could not hit. “He told us what Cobb, and Crawford, and Veach, and Vi tt, and all the rest were supposed to miss, and we absorbed the instructions attentively. "When Rowland had finished, somebody spoke up and asked: ‘How about Coveleskie?’ Rowland laughed merrily. ‘Never mind about Coveleskie.’ said he. That fellow can’t hit anybody, so what’s the use of bothering with him? And that fatal afternoon Coveleskie imade 'four hits in four times at bit, and won his own game against us.”

Hod Eller.