Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1909 — TAFT AT BALL GAME [ARTICLE]

TAFT AT BALL GAME

Wonders Whether He Is a Hoodoo When Washington Loses. Washington, April 20. President Taft went to the baseball game and saw Washington defeated 8 to 4 by the Boston American leaguers. He shared & 6-cent bag of peanuts with Vice President Sherman, wished hard for Washington to win, and said sadly that, he hoped he wasn’t a "hoodoo,” No one in Washington could recall any day when a president of the United States attended a ball game hereTheodore Roosevelt did not go within the ball grounds during his seven years; at the White House.