Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1920 — HAL CHASE ABOUT TO QUIT BASEBALL GAME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAL CHASE ABOUT TO QUIT BASEBALL GAME

Anxious to Become Established in Some Other Business. Star First Baseman Realizes Near Approach of Inevitable End of Long and Sensational Career—Broke In With the Yankees. “Peerless Hal” Chase has probably played his last game of baseball. Recognizing the near approach of the Inevitable end of a long and sensational career, he is planning to retire from the national pastime before the opening of another season and may announce his voluntary passing at any time now. There is no question of failure to negotiate a satisfactory contract with the Giants Involved in Chase’s determination to quit the diamond. He simply realizes that he Is rapidly nearing the end of his baseball rope and is anxious to become established in some other

profession while he is still a comparatively young man. He has several promising propositions under consideration. Chase, barring one brief adventure with the outlaw California State league In 1908, and his Federal league escapade in 1914-15, has been in the major leagues since 1905, when he broke in with the New York Yankees. From the start he has been one of the stormy petrels of baseball. He was early conceded to b|e the greatest first baseman of all time and one of the most effective hit-and-run batters that the game has ever produced. Yet no other player In the. history of the game has been more severely censured, more bitterly maligned than this slim, still boyish, and thoroughly likeable Californian.

Hal Chase.