Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1917 — CUBS AND GIANTS UNDERGO MANY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CUBS AND GIANTS UNDERGO MANY

When Fred Merkle went to ifce Cubs he found not a single player who was with the team in 1908. when the Cubs won the pennant from the Giants through Merkle’s oversight in not touching second. All of the old Cubs are gon-?, though four still remain in the National league. Evers and Reulbach now form the coaching squad of the Braves. Schulte plays the outfield for Pittsburgh, while Zimmerman, the kid Infielder of 1908, now is McGraw’s third baseman. Of the 1908 Giants, only Kcrsog is left In New York and he has been a Gotham inhabitant only off and on—McGraw having traded him away twice and traded him back twice. Charley put in terras in Boston and Cincinnati. Like Zimmerman, Doyle and Merkle, Herzog was a rookie infielder in 1908. He came into the league that season. Marquard, now with Brooklyn, went to the Giants in the fall of 1908, while Leon Ames, though a veteran of the Giant pitching staff in 1908, still is pitching good ball in St. Louis. Matty, of course, still is in the league as manager of Cincinnati, but Big Six is no longer in active service.

OLD-TIME CHICAGO AND NEW YORK PLAYERS