Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1920 — ROOKIE LOSES BIG DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

ROOKIE LOSES BIG DIAMOND

Brooklyn Club Farms Player Who Struck Out Babe Ruth in Spring Exhibition Game, Joe Conlan, rookie recruit with the’ Dodgers, fanned Babe Ruth this spring. They farmed him to Reading. He learned to play at the Chicago stockyards. If he had stuck with Brooklyn until they played In Chicago, his friends had planned to present him with a big diamond.