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r;e. ThisAROUNDXBASESSAD FINISH OF COLLINS, LEADER OF BOSTON TEAMJimmy Collins, manager and captain of the Boston American league Ball club, has been Indefinitely suspended by order of Gen. Charles H. Taylor, owner of the club. This Information, sent from Boston, will come as a great surprise to the thousands of baseball fans who have watched the brilliant career or the leader of the Plymouth Rocks since the days when he developed Into a star third baseman with the old Ixmlsvllle club In the National league, up through bis stellar work as a member of Seleo's squad at Boston and his success with the Boston Americans when he twice won the American league pennant and once had the honor of winning the championship of the world. • Chick Stahl has been put In command temporarily.For a long time, this season, Collins has not appeared just right to his friends. It Is believed the misfortunes 4bat have befallen the once proud world’s champions In their flght this season have affected Collins’ spirit to a certain extent, for his absencesable, they say, that he became so nervous on the bench. He was anxious to get back Into harness and on several occasions made an attempt, but on the first real effort for a fast grounder his knee gave way every time and lie was compelled to give up.Friends of Collins cannot understand his actions. They point to his whole career on the diamond as marked by grit and mental stability and say he Is the last man of whom they would expect such actions. He has admitted to these friends that he cannot explain why he has acted In the way be has and It Is their theory that he has been under such a mental and nervous strain for such a long time that he simply yields to an irresistible Impulse to get away from the troubles that have so persistently followed the club and has gone without asking leave of absence.REMARKABLE TRIPLE PLAY BY A FIELDERJack Chesbro tells the prise triple play story. In addition to the play being pulled off by one man. the ball traveled through three states before the play was finished. Here is Jack’s own version of the play:“While I was employed at tho state hospital In Middletown, N. Y., we used Jo make frequent trips to a place near Port Jervis, called Tri-States. The little place got its name from the fact that the states of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania .met there, a stone marking the spot.“One Saturday afternoon after I had attracted some attention as a ball player the crack Middletown team got me to pitch against the Tri-Staters, as the nine was known at Tri-Slate. The ball field was just at the point where the three states Joined. One part of the field was in New York, another In New Jersey, and another In Pennsylvania. Tho Tri-Staters did not class with our team, and the game was dragging along until about the seventhlt;I4T1wauWone-Figamson.PiSox.Fretthepltc!sixhas
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Defiance Express
Defiance, Ohio, US
Tue, Sep 25, 1906
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