Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1919 — ATHLETE NEVER STOLE BASE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ATHLETE NEVER STOLE BASE

Hub Perdue Tells Story of Life’s Tragedy, an Ambition of Fifteen Years’ Standing. Hub Perdue, the famous Gallatin squash, his eyes tear dimmed and his voice husky, recently confided to sorrowing friends the story of a life’s tragedy, of an ambition of 15 years’ standing never yet and apparently never to be fulfilled. “I’ve been playing baseball for 15 years and I've never stolen a base,”

moaned the portly boxman of the Pelicans. s “Surely, Hub,” urged a bystander, “tn all these years you have at times been on first and a runner on third and two out, or have gotten to first with the enemy ahead by a flock of runs and willing to let you steal ’round to third just for the fun of it.” “Never, hever,” answered the oldtimer. “I’m determined to steal a base, though, if I have to stay in baseball ten years or more or break a leg while lam trying. The only way I could ever find for me to steal a base was to get a lain tern and gp out at night, but the scorers won’t count that kind.”

Hub Perdue.