Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1919 — MAX CAREY DECLARES FIRST GAME HARDEST [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAX CAREY DECLARES FIRST GAME HARDEST

Roger Bresnahan Got Him Rattled by Continuous Chatter. a i •' •-'S Was Injected Into Pastime in Eighth Inning With Score Tied, Two on Bases and Two Out —Made Good With Triple. "I will always regard the first game I ever played in the National league as the one which brought me face to face with the tightest pinch of my baseball career,” said Max Carey recently. “I had just reported to the Pittsburgh club at St. Louis. It was during the fag end of the season of’l9lo and I was getting my first major league trial. “An outfield composed of Fred Clarke. Tommy Leach. Chief Wilson and Vince Campbell meant faint hope for a youngster of twenty who wanted to make good. But Clarke gave me a chance, sure enough, and the pinch into which I was injected came tn the eighth inning with the score tied, 2 and 2, two out and two on the bases. “Roger Bresnahan, catching for the Cardinals, let out a line of chatter that made me think I was in a hotel lobby fanning bee. He signaled Benny Hearne, the pitcher, for a fast ball. Then he stopped the game, walked out

and called the left fielder, Rebel Oakes, to come in several steps, and came back to the plate.with: “ ‘Let’s see how you look on a curve.* “Well, I swung on the next pitched ball and swung hard. “Bang went my bat against that leather, and it sure felt good. Zing went that ball over Rebel’s head for three bases, and we won the game.”

Max Carey.