Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — AGES OF BASEBALL PLAYERS [ARTICLE]

AGES OF BASEBALL PLAYERS

Many Old-Timers, Including Doyle, Crandall and Bob Harmon Show' Registration Cards. Ball players’ ages are very- often hard to judge. When a man has been before the public for eight or ten years the fans are prone to regard him as a real old-timer, yet they err frequently In their estimates of an athlete’s age. When the recent decision on the work or fight order was issued by Secretary of War Baker many fans were of the opinion that Larry Doyle was over the age and would be spared to the Gitlnts, yet Larry bobbed up with a registration card which -showed that he is in class 4A of she draft On top of that John McGraw wired to Otis Crandall, who has been pitching in the Pacific Coast league, to find out how he stood, and Otis, who is a real veteran, replied that he is in Class 4A. And it wasn’t so long ago that Bob Harmon, resenting the application of the word “old” to him, produced a registration card showing that he is twenty-nine years old.