Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1917 — WILL DIE A NATURAL DEATH [ARTICLE]

WILL DIE A NATURAL DEATH

Dave Davenport, Who Had Narrow Escape Last Winter, Gets Hard Siam in Hia Short Riba. ' Pitcher Dave Davenport of the Browns seems destined to die a datura 1 death. He exploded a load of buckshot into his anatomy last winter and it d|||ju fease him. The other day in bnttnQ; practice he was struck In the short ribs by p ball coming at a terrific dip and crumpled-up like a dead man, but soon was up and op his feet. Examination by a physician revealed that he had suffered no serious Injury, though the blow might have put an ordinary man in the hospital.