Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1918 — Carries His Own Bones Around as a Mascot for Coming Diamond Season [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Carries His Own Bones Around as a Mascot for Coming Diamond Season

All ball players believe in luck and m'ost carry a talisman of some sort, but it remains for Forrest Cady, Mack’s new big catcher, to carry around with him the strangest token of all. It is nothing less than two bones from his own body. Last winter Cady was in a motor accident and had his Shoulder broken in several places. Two pieces of bone

were removed, and now Cady is never without them. “They are a part of me or were,” Cady explains, “and I’m only carrying them as near where they belong as I can. My arm’s as good as ever, although I thought for a time that I would never play ball again, somehow I feel that if I lost those two little pieces of bone my ann would go back on me.”

Forrest Cady.