Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1918 — ARTHUR IRWIN IS CHEERFUL [ARTICLE]

ARTHUR IRWIN IS CHEERFUL

Veteran Player and Scout Says Game Will Be Good as Ever Despite War Conditions. The veteran Arthur Irwin takes a hopeful view of baseball under war conditions. He believes that the brand of baseball served up will be as good as ever and that there will be no complaining by the players over the few luxuries of travel that they will have to dispense with. Irwin, who will go back to scouting this season if the International league does not continue, says that back in 1894 his Philadelphia team, traveling on a train that did not have a diner, got into Pittsburgh* just in time to beat it to the ball yard, and, dinnerless, proceeded to whip the well-fed Pirates. ‘The Phillies were behind until the seventh,” says Arthur, “tied things up that inning, and won out in the tenth, 4to 8. They, enjoyed their big meal that night. I think the game was played the day after the Fourth, but 1 know it was in 1894.”