Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1917 — CHIEF MEYERS IS REAL INDIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHIEF MEYERS IS REAL INDIAN

Boston Catcher Played Both Football and Baseball While at Dartmouth —ls Able Actor. John T. Meyers, or Tortes, if you want the Indian of it, was born in Riverside, Cal., and is a full-blooded Mission Indian. His grandfather was a chief and the Boston Braves’ catcher therefore comes honestly by his nickname. Meyers is twenty-eight years old and has played baseball in almost every part of the country. He played semi-professional ball in California and the Southwest until he had saved enough to go tocollege. : -—*■ At Dartmouth he played both football and baseball, and in the deepest portion of the baseball field at Hanover there is a stake driven into the ground which marks the spot where a home run by Meyers came to rest. It was the longest hit ever seen by the collegians and no one has approached it since Meyers left Dartmouth. The Indian got his first taste of league baseball in the Trl-State. St. Paul of the American association snapped him up and there he made such a good record that McGraw paid $6,500 for his release. He at once

showed hitting ability, hanging up the wonderful record of 29 home runs on the first training trip, but his catching was very far below big league standards. When McGraw finally let the Indian go he was picked up by the Brooklyn Dodgers and from*, there went to the Boston Braves. In addition to his catching ability Meyers is an able actor.

Chief Meyers.