Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1919 — JOHN WATSON IS HOPELESS [ARTICLE]

JOHN WATSON IS HOPELESS

Pitcher Looked Good Last Year, but Starts This Season Showed Nothing to Connie Mack. Connie Mack gave John Watson up as hopeless last week and released him to Baltimore. Watson looked pretty >good last year, but in his three starts (this spring showed nothing that would ■encourage Mack to keep him. In his place Mack has signed a young pitcher named Eisenberger, who comes from an. Independent team Jit Marysville, Pa. He recently returned from France, where he made a reputation pitching army baseball, though It is not explained how a doughboy with such a jname got by.