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*about it—Jimmy was shot to death, j a For fourteen year Jimmy had been ' w sick. He fought against it for a time, j ii but finally it got him; it put an end j to what was beginning to look like ■ si a real career in professional baseball, j n The army took Jimmy when the war ! e came, but had to let him go in five V months; he was too sick. j tlt;There wasn’t much work Jimmy Is' could do after those fourteen years. ^ And he wasn’t married. So Jimmy! h was home with his mother most of i ^ the time. Four other sons she had, -v and daughters, but all of them were * married, and somehow that made a h difference.Three loves Jimmy had, his mother, j his chicks and baseball. His brothers f, tell how much he loved his mother, ; e was always with her. j p“Just ten days ago,” his mother j said, “he screened the chicken run t under the house so the little ones j couldn’t run out into the street.”And baseball. Well, since Jimmy couldn’t play any more he managed j a team, started it with the boys in ! St. Anthony’s parochial school some p years ago, and then when the boys finished school kept the team organ ized. They were hardly semi-profes- i t sional, played hard for the love ot t the game. Jimmy’s 16-year-old t nephew was on the team, and Mohr’s 17-year-old son.“He loved those boys,” Mrs. Vittur j said. “Every Friday night they had . a meeting on the porch. He just j ^ talked and talked baseball.”Mrs. Vittur doesn’t know anything about baseball. She just mends the j uniforms.“When I go to see the Pelicans play sometimes with my daughter-in-law. that’s Mrs. Joe Marina, 1 get all wor- f ried asking foolish questions,” she said. “I don’t know a catcher s mitt * from a first baseman’s. But 1 mend the uniforms.”All of Mrs. Vittur’s boys played baseball. There w’as one with Atlanta, t another in the Texas league. I“They laughed at me,” she said c “Jimmy laughed at me. I couldn’t ^ settle their arguments. They used to ask me to, and then laugh at me.” ^ Mrs. Vittur lives with her daughter r and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank . Edward Piere. Piere is assistant sex- c ton at St. Patrick’s cemetery No. 3. , c and the home is a tiny one. incredibly neat, on the edge of the cemetery, a Jimmy lived there, too. pAnd Jimmy is buried just fifty yards t
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Chillicothe Daily Tribune
Chillicothe, Missouri, US
Wed, Jun 22, 1927
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