Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1917 — CLEVER WALTER PIPP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEVER WALTER PIPP

Yankees’ First Baseman Is Most Remarkable Player. Earned Title of Home-Run Clouter of Hie Circuit While but TwentyThroe Years of Age—ln CleanUp Position. Walter Plpp, first baseman of the Yankees, is one of the most remarkable players developed in the last decade by the American league. Last season, while only twenty-three years old, this clever performer earned the home-run title of his circuit and also batted in more runners during the season than any other ball player of the Johnson organization. His bitting was more effective than that of Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb, Jbe Jackson. Eddie Collins and ,several others who topped him In the official averages. Plpp bats fourth in Bill Donovan’s order. Fourth place is considered the “clean-up” position. There is a fine distinction when it is remembered that J. Franklin Baker, the home-run king of Connie Mack’s famous world champion pennant trust, is now a team-mate of the Michigan marvel. In Pipp and Baker the Yankees possess an ideal offensive pair such as has carried more than one team to success. Walter and Frank are to New York Just what Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford were to the Tigers many years before Wahoo began to slow up. Plpp is not so fast as Cobb, of course, but still he

is a good base runner, one capable of getting the utmost inch on both his own and Baker’s blows. Plpp stands today as an example of the sound baseball sense of Manager Donovan. When Wild Bill was brought over from Providence pennant fame to assume charge of the Yankees by Messrs. Ruppert and Huston, the new owners, he found that the Detroit club had given New York options on Pipp and Hughie High. Both Pipp and High made good, and formed a nucleus around which it was possible to build the present strong structure. Like most of the prominent American league sluggers, Walter Plpp is a left-handed batsman. He throws with his right band, a qualification regarded as a great advantage for first-base play. , Pipp is a grand fielder, active, agile and certain with his hands. He is possessed of a wonderful reach —he stands six feet two inches in height, and weighs 180 pounds.

Walter Pipp.