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BY ABIMELECH PIM. With Apologies to George Ade.) 2—JACK HENDRICKS. At the present moment there is an Extremely Dapper Young Man who poses as the Captain and Manager of the Springfield Baseball club, better known throughout the Central league as the Badly Battered Bunch of Bab ies. This young man when at a very tender age ran errands for Charley Comiskey in the village of Chicago by the-lake. He was raised in a very swell and aristocratic Section of the town and by the time he was able to walk about the boulevards and alleys that abound in Packingtown. Some very tough young fellows dubbed him “Jack” and he has been known thusly ever since. At the age of eight years and sixteen days the dear child accepted a position as bat boy for Comiskey’s White Sox and at this time his early education in the arts and science of baseball commenced. When the boy Jack arrived at the mature age of fifteen sum mers his desire for fame and honor asserted itself and it was not many moons until the daily papers were publishing long winded articles on the young _— baseball Phenomenon then managing a team of youngsters known as the Rip-Tall Roarers from Cook County, Illinois. At the age of twenty-three, Jack was very proficient in the art of nab bing flying spheres while stationed in the outer gardens and had also suc ceeded in making friends with an ability to swat the sphere at “oppor tune times for one, two and three Sack safeties. The owners of the Springfield Baseball club soon began to take notice and during the season of 1905 they sent him a samy» pay envelope and enticed him to the city called Springfield where he was given full charge and management of a bunch of colts then endeavoring to get out of seventh place in the Central League pennant race. Aftereveral moons he succeeded in passine anton and by this feat earned the aunta of the fans and fanatics of Spring field. In the following year he assibled together a champion aggregat and Soon the daily papers referre to the League Leaders. Manase, Jac as everybody soon began callis the proficient young man, actionally signed a youth named Ariste Haven and soon woke up: fact that Aristo could play left client well as he could and in his * mo ments could wield the bluds with more force. Therefore he 1 hed himself and endeavored to earn out hundred samedeons by simply 0!!!08 a few new hats on the rest! of the race. However, the directors of the club got wise and warned ana set Jack to earn his salary, which Jack Soon did by making the League cal ers look like a bunch of bac 00 men and incidentally making te Cen tral league race a trifle more ©. 1M Moral—Never get swelled by 2024 and endeavor to have your work a complished by proxy. The boss we get next and compel you to work for a living.
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Canton Morning News
Canton, Ohio, US
Tue, Aug 07, 1906
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