Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1918 — LES MANN IS GREATLY IMPROVED BALL PLAYER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LES MANN IS GREATLY IMPROVED BALL PLAYER

Les Mann is a greatly improved ball player. He has always shone brilliantly in fielding, but this season his batting has taken a decided jump; His base running also shows an Improvement. One of the features of his playing, In addition hitting and fielding, has been his aggressiveness. In that he leads the Cubs. He showed it recently by the clash he had with Heinie Zimmerman at third base. He saw an opportunity to score another run for the Cubs by driving the ball out of Heinie Zimmerman’s hand. In this he did not succeed, but it demonstrated that the spirit to win was always foremost in his mind. He probably was inspired to more aggressiveness by the training he received ar Camp Logan in the winter, where he bad charge of the Y. M. C. A. athletics.