Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — THE MEEK AND LOWLY EDDIE DIDN’T HAVE A CHANCE. [ARTICLE]

THE MEEK AND LOWLY EDDIE DIDN’T HAVE A CHANCE.

During an early spring practice at Franklin field, at the University of Pennsylvania; Eddie ' Collins, the world’s greatest second base guardian, who was helping Roy Thomas coach the Red and Blue candidates in order to get into condition for the American league campaign, was called down by an ambitious sophomore who aspires to the managerial berth of the varsity nine. Eddie was doing some fancy stunts At second when the soph rushed up to him and said: “What’s your name?” “Collins,” Eddie meekly replied. “All right,” said the student. “I’ll put your name down on the list, but you haven’t got a chance of making the team this year. You ought to have been out here two months ago when Thomas first called you fellows out.” ■>