The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-29
STAR PLAYER
JUMPS To HIS
HOME IN DIXIE
Joe Jackson, of Athletics, Gives
Up Fame and Fortune for
His Southern Bride.

Joe Jackson, baseball phenom. pinch
hitter and possessor of an arm that
sends a ball through space like a bull
let from a gun, has jumped the game
says the Atlanta Journal.
Pining for his bride of six weeks,
homesick for the scenes of his boyhood
at Greenville, s. c., where he began
life as an operative in a cotton factory,
Jackson for the second time has quit
the Philadelphia American League
Club.
Jackson was not dazzled by the
lights of great cities, neither was he
awed by the thousands that came to
the games. Their applause when he
! raped out two and three baggers. or
! when he threw some man out at the
! plate while standing deep in the OUT
field, had no effect on his nerves. It
was simply a case of being homesick.
He could not stand the strain and under
cover of the night packed his little grip
n stole away from fame and fortune
to again hear the hum of the machin-
cry in the cotton factory and to wear
q hat covered with the lint of hard Ind
honest toll.
These things will be seasoned with
the smiles of his child wife, for h u
just 16.
With these jackson will be happy.
Without them he was miserable.
When Joe Jackson began to play
baseball around his home town the
boys thought he was pretty good. but
1t stopped at hat. When Tommie
Stouch took the management Of the
Greenyille club this season n signed
Jackson. some Of the knowing ones
laughed at him. In less than two weeks
he was the wonder of the league and In
less thar two months he a been sold
to the Athletic Club. Of philadelphia.
Then came trouble. He had been sold
but not delivered. Stouch told him
what a great future he had before him
in the game, and finally jackson start
ed with him to Philadelphia.
When the train with the two men
reached Charlotte, Stouch was asleep,
but not SO with Jackson. He stepped
off of his coach into n that was going
back to his home. When Stouch awoke
the next morning his man was gone.
He was back at h cotton factory ana
his wife was by his side. Stouch went
on to Philadelphia. where he reported
the situation to Connie Mack. The
Philadelphia manager, without hesita-
ton of a moment. told Seybold to catch
the first train for Greenville and bring
Jackson to Philadelphia.
Seybold delivered the goods, but hd
had a hard time doing IT. jackson
the said he wanted his wife with him
and Mack had her to come on to the
Quaker City. jackson went into the
games after that and wa the coolest
man on the field. Although Greenvilla
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the crowds in Philadelphia did not
seem to affect him in the least. He
was a devil with the bat andEa races
, horse in the field. But the little girl
wife was homesick. She wanted to so
back to Greenville. One day she told
her husband that she wanted to sec
her old home. and Connie Mack sent
her back. He had a long talk with
Jackson and told him what a ine
chance he had, and thought matters
were all right.
Two nights after the wife had gone,
ackson without a word of good-by
Z to any of his new-made friends LETT
for Greenville.
Then the patience of Connie Mack be-
came exhausted and he has blacklisted
him. That means Jackson IL out Of
organized baseball. 1t near that he
cannot even play with h club in
| Greenville. 1t means unless jackson
should return and ask forgiveness and
get II that he must go back to the cot
ton factory.
Jackson is very il~literate. He cannot
even write his w name n perhaps
does not realize what he has done.
With the Philadelphia club he could
have commanded a salary OF several
thousand dollars a veal Now that he
is out of the game there Is nothing
better for him thar the cotton factory
al a few dollars O week.