Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-21
ALL PITCHERS LOOK ALIKE TO
JOE JACKSON, EMBRYO NAP
Spends Season in Each Of Three Leagues Of
Different Glasses and Each Fall Finds
Him Still Leading the Batters.

sive strokes became the most damaging
after all.
Near the close OF that season, three
years ago now. Stouch negotiated deai
with Connie Mack for the purchase OF
both Barr and Jackson. and then the trou-
BILE began. They went to Philadelphia In
the fall, and although the Athletics man
ager was able to get Jackson In only
that he was major league timber all right.
Jackson left Greenville one day under
pretense OF going to Philadelphia, but he
didn't go. He had married an acquaint-
ance and friend of his uneventfui child
hood in Greenville and couldn't leave his
newly acquired wife.
He returned to Greenville. and II re-
quired everything but the south caro-
lima legislature itself to get him moved
again toward Philadelphia. He finally
made up his mind to report to Mack.
however. and he stayed around the camp
of the Athletics about long enough to
find out that he wasn't at home, and he
skipped. picked up his duds and pulled
out for home.
1t became pretty clear to Mack that
he was not going to be able to keep his
claws on the phenom at the beginning OF
the season Of 1909, and he put him In
Savannah in the Sallie League, thus
leading him by degrees into the acquaint-
ance of the troubles of organized base
ball And behold him in that circuit re-
peating his record in the Carolina asso-
citation, a terror to every pitcher In the
league and sign smasher OF the Cobb
type. He got better every day: he be-
came more natural in his position at the
plate. more select in his choice of what
balls to hit at. although this had made
but little difference to him previously,
and the conclusion OF that season found
him the leading batter of the league
Manager Mack still wanted the young
ster as one of his regulars. but Jackson
did not want to try 1t again in Philadel-
phia, and rather than ruin for all time the
chances of one OF the wonders Of the
diamond, he negotiated a deal with the
New Orleans club in the Southern League
for Jackson's services during the present
season.
The decided difference in the pitching
of Glass C. and d twirlers and the South
ern League mounders had no effect at all
on the batting retina of the Greenville
marvel. and at the close of the present
season he will stand far in the lead as
the premier batsman of that fast or
ganfzation, leading base runners and ono
of the leagues finished f1elders. He
seems now to have acquired enough
knowledge OF the game and necessary
finish to get In the majors and burn the
woods. He Is not an apt student of any
thing, and never had the advantages OF
an education. It is said that after his
marriage he endeavored to improve his
mind by constant study, but his inapti--
apparent abnormal base ball acumen.
and he Is one Of the coolest players In
the business. knowing always what to
do, and when. He Ii daring on the bases,
an elusive, sensational fielder, and still
a natural hitter.
Base ball experts OF this section. in
which Jackson was reared, and where he
began his career, believe him to be one
Of the wonders Of the age, and under
careful development ought to rival the
genius from Georgia as the greatest
player ever produced. His career with
the Maps will be followed closely by his
friends down home.