Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — HAL CHASE ILL WITH SMALLPOX [ARTICLE]

HAL CHASE ILL WITH SMALLPOX

Malady May Halt Opening of League Season. CAUGHT IN MACON HOTEL Teammates Are Vaccinated and Informed That Disease Was tn Undeveloped Stage When They Were Exposed to It—Others Who Are Afflicted Are Members of Minor League Teams—Star's 111 Luck Makes Willie Keeler Witty. Augusta, Ga., April 9.—Hal Chase, first baseman of the New York Americans, is at the detention hospital here undergoing treatment for smallpox. His physicians have so diagnosed his illness. / The doctor informed Stallings that the smallpox had not, at that time, reached the contagious stage and that there was absolutely no danger to the other men. However, every.man was stripped and vaccinated and every article of clothing and everything in the hotel was fumigated. Willie Keeler says: "I always knew Hal was a wonder. He reaches out, down or to the left or right and never misses the nastiest sort of throw. But I did not think he would mistake the smallpox for a baseball. It's his nature, though, just to catch everything. He misses nothing.”