Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1918 — NO PARLOR JOB FOR JENKINS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NO PARLOR JOB FOR JENKINS

Former Catcher of Chicago' Team Has Been Seeing Lot of Tough Service in France. Damon Runyon, in one of his -dispatches from France, dated October 22, notes that the day before- he had run across Tom Jenkins, former catcher of the Chicago White Sox, who had

Just come out of the front line for a rest From appearances, wrote Runyon, the former catcher had been seeing a lot of tough service, for he was dirty and unkempt, and was busy scraping mud off himself at a -wayside billet Runyon alsp notes in the same dispatch that he had. recently seen Christy Mathewson and that he was the first to tell Matty of Eddie. Grant’s death. w* • ‘

Catcher Tom Jenkins.