Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — HUGH JENNINGS WOULD PENALIZE STARS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HUGH JENNINGS WOULD PENALIZE STARS

Hugh Jennings Is one person who believes that it is a bad thing to have players like Speaker suspended unless they indulge in some extraordinarily bad action. He figures the thing from the standpoint of the club owner and the fan, but admits that the only suggestion he can make is that the player be handed a stiff fine, and that the club owner take it out of the offending player’s salary, instead of making good from his own pocket. “Take a player like Speaker out of the lineup,” says Hughie, “and you can figure that the receipts of the Cleveland series at Navin field will be lessened 25 per cent. The stars draw people, as well as win games. Cobb does It for us. Watch how much larger the crowds are when Johnson Is announced topltchfor Washington than on other days.”

WALTER JOHNSON