Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1918 — Good Irish Name Helped Mike Hogan Get a Tryout With John McGraw’s Team [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Good Irish Name Helped Mike Hogan Get a Tryout With John McGraw’s Team

The bird who said there Is nothing in a name had his signals gummed up. There is quite a bit in some names, and the case of Mike Hogan of Cohoes, N. Y., proves it beyond a doubt Just before the Giants started for Marlin and spring training, Mike Hogan bounced into the Giants’ offices and announced that he was ready to go South. John McGraw gave him the up and down, scratched his noggan in deep

thought, and utterly failed to remember of ever having heard of him. “Why, the paper up in Cohoes said you wanted to give me a trial and so here I am,” explained Hogan. “I’ve been pitching semipro ball up home, and I guess you’ve heard about me. Tm a machinist by trade.” McGraw had never dreamed of Hogan, but he liked the youngster’s looks, and, most of all, he took a * fancy to the name of Hogan. McGraw would 'like to surround himself with Doyles, McCarthys and Hogans, so he decided to give Mike a chance, and Mike went to Marlin. So there is something in a name after all, for Hogan, who had never played professional ball, is getting his first tryout in the strongest minor league in the country, and all because i his name is Hogan.

Pitcher M. B. Hogan.