Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1909 — HIGH SCHOOL BOY ON CONNIE MACK’S TEAM [ARTICLE]

HIGH SCHOOL BOY ON CONNIE MACK’S TEAM

Helps Athlete Beat Beaten to Opening Engagement Philadelphia, April 13.—The American league season was opened here with the largest crowd that ever witnessed a baseball game in this city—--30,162 paying for admission. Thousands were turned away. The occasion marked the opening of Bhlbe park, the new half million dollar home of the Philadelphia American league club. Plank held Boston to six hits. Arellanes was taken out in the seventh inning, after eleven hits had been made off him. Mclnnes, who played shortstop for the Athletics, Is a high school boy from Gloucester, Mass., and is only eighteen years old. Score: g Fhila 1.0201013 x—B 13 2 Boston ....0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 o—l 6 2 Batteries—Plank and Powers; Arellanes. Ryan and Carrigan.