Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1917 — LAVAN MAKES PLANS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LAVAN MAKES PLANS

Browns’ Shortstop Win Hang Out Shingle as Physician. Able to Care for Injured Person With Gentleness That Would Amaze His Baseball Friends—Wife Also Versatile.. Johnny Lavan, the Browns’ fast young shortstop, does not loaf in the winter season. Lavan realizes that there will come a day wjhen he can no longer skip nimbly about the infield as he does today and he plans to be prepared for such a time. When he feels that he is no longer useful in the big leagues he will not die a lingering basebail death in the bushes. He will hang out a shingle and be a popular M. D. Johnny is a graduate of the University of Michigan and there he got his medical degree. As soon as the baseball season comes to a close he puts aside his glove and gets busy with the pills. He is able to care for an injured patient with a gentleness that would amaze his baseball friends. He is said to be as expert in handling physical injuries as he is in handling hot grounders and the many who have

seen him at the latter will agree that he must, be a desirable doctor. All dressed up in his professional garb and in care of an injured patient Lavan doesn’t greatly resemble the speedy shortstep who cuts off runs instead of legs and arms, in the summer. Lavan’s wife is a graduate nurse and when the time comes they plan to give all their attention to the doctoring business instead of only part of it, as at present. Mrs. Lavan is as versatile as her husband and in addition to being a trained nurse she is a capable critic of her husband’s work through the summer.

Johnny Lavan.