Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1919 — GREAT RECORD MADE BY ADRIAN C. ANSON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GREAT RECORD MADE BY ADRIAN C. ANSON

Played for Twenty-Two Years; With the Same Team. Was Manager of Chicago Club for Longer Period Than Any Other Leader—Was an Active Player While Acting as Head. There are records and yet more records in baseball —but what player will ever duplicate two records, both held by the same man—the honors held by Adrian C. Anson? They point proudly to the batting marks that Uncle made —the way he poled that apple through! the year—but the historians seem to overlook these two salient features ofl Anson’s great career: — " " He stayed longer in the service of a; single club than any other man that ever wore the spikes—and he was manager of the same club for a longer stretch of time than any other man ever managed a' ball club before or since. Anson played continuously with the Chicago teana from the spring of 1876 to the fall of 1897 —22 years under one

banner. Never has any other man ever approximated that length of service, least of all without at least one change of posture. Anson managed the Chicago club for 19 seasons —and nobody, before or since, has come anywhere near that managerial record. Moreover, Anson was an active player all the time — never did any of his directing from the bench. He became an institution in Chicago—something that was taken for granted; something the citizens assumed belonged there forever, and was as much a portion of the scenery , as the Masonic temple, the stock yards or the lake front. _ -

Adrian C. Anson.