Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18
JAKE DAUBERT HAD {
GREAT PERSISTENCE
Refused to Believe Those Who
Informed Him He Would
Never Make Good.

lou We GOT 10 give II 10 jake tdhhttH
Brooklyns first sacker. when it comes 10
crowding more persistency into less space
OF time than any other big league bali
player ever did before.
Jake has been playing professional base
ball just three years. bat in that perio4
half a dozen managers have told him
| that the minute they saw h9In play ball
i they could tell that he was q wonderful
bricklayer Did this drive Jatrk back 70
| that dear Llewellyn. Pa. where he has
| his home? Not drive. He simply made
a mental reservation to show those man
ayers that what they knew about picking
"A Young star they could put in their eve
| without dcinS any great aFlount OF dam
age to the optic and packed HIS bat aud
balls and clippings from the sporting cole
! umn of the Ilcwellyn Weekly Telegram.
which told how good lie waS and started
to show his samples 10 SOMEONE else.
| Last year John Mclraw ght glimpse
OF Daubert playing first hasS and almost
THREW his arm out of joint reaching for a
fountain pen TO sign draft for tho
minor leagUcr. Quick as JlcGraw vas
in the draw, however. Charley Ehhets
trusty sceul was quicker. and jake WAS
drafted for the BROOKLYN team.
Being drafted by a Big league club was
no new experience for Jakf, and he did
not wire the Llewellyn Telegram - get
out the stock cuts of tEc boosters and
start them Growing. because LieHei.yH
was about to be put on thS map. First
of all, tne Llewellyn TELEGRAM wouid
have refused the MESA get II IL had been
sent collect and. secondly. Daubert knew
! that il had crowed twidc before when
the Cleveland team had grabbed him. and
that later the crows had been sent 10 the
discard because Cleveland decided that
he could not make goof with the fast
ones.
BROOKLYN fans smiled broadly wheu
they heard that Ebbets had signed a ne"
man to play first base. BROOKLYN NouAa
men, reading Abe Yea2er's weighrN para
graphs in The Brooklyn Eagle. Ioidihs
the paper in one hand while theJ car
lied the rubber plant into the house f9i
the night, remarked that evidently some
| body had been stTiagiEg -.Ec. Tor BROOK.
Ign had q first baseman named Tin jor'
dan. who had once hit the bail into
flock of flats outside the BrookiNh bai
park and who would be BrookiNns ~ :
baseman until the Gomanus canal fro@E
over SO help me, Charley EbbetS.
But Ebbets mad a new manager Vic
knew something about ball players. iiiii
was no other than our OLD friend NAiia'
Da hien-the plot begins To thieilci-dA'
when William saw DdGbert At worn di'r.
ing the practice last spring down sousf
he remarked that Tim Jorda2's bad !ega
would DrODanly lay the regular !list pcSc-
n man Up for the rest OF the year.
Now I'D 10 that moment Tim didn'
know that lie had anything the matter
with his under pinninE, but he look TIE
hint and began TO complain that ne W.
not strong enough 10 stand a hard sum
mer on the diamond, and the first tllne
+ you know Daubert was Brooklyn reSu'
lar first baseman.
According to a Brooklyn paper tn
many glowing reports sent from the SCUM
about Jordans successor served TO aWakfs
great interest among tho fans in the ne"
man. The Superbas played IN" oper'Hf
game Of the season in Philadelphia Quits
a few Brooklyn fans made the trin r.
,e Philiy. Daubert. of course. VAS the m y
"a closely observed OF the rev prayers. itt
&c got a start that would have laeaut big
II handicap for any but game ball DIS er
sti Titus the first man ND for the Quakcrs,
r hit a grounder down toward first. base
g. Jake evidently was nervous In ms ARK.
iety to make the play quickly. ne grabnef
AZ at the ball before il reached him, WIFE
/ the result that it went through his leG~
le so that his first chance in the Nationa
= League resulted in a bad error. But Jake
- didn't let il shake his nerre. All The 81,
De rors he has made since can he counted
le on the fingers Of the boy who held on Ia
st | a cannon firecracker.
"a Some of the fielding plays he has made
- | and is making right along not even fllt
IL peerless Hal Chase can eclipse. SAYS TIE
OF same Brooklyn authority. Not only l.
bs Daubert great first baSenan, nut ne y
10 ] a good hitter ana clever DaSe Tuiltf q,
we'll One base-runnng stunt that h'
| pulled early in the season caused Man
ar ager Dahlen to remark that il was q"
a heady a piece of base running as he hac
Nv ever seen Burch was taking a long
;, chance on scoring. Daubert. in the m"a u
-. -, time. was racing up to second 1t was 2
~ game against :he Cutr, and StetlfalGt
As | who got the throN-in from the outfte'd
=; could have got Burch easily al the pla e
ne Daubert saw it. and calmly turned second
-, and headed direct for SteinfelGt. For Jus
-. "A few seconds Steinfeldt was nonplused
y. seeing Daubert racing toward him. stein
q. feldts hesitation was just long enough e
oe give Burch the chance 10 score. or course
- Steinfeldt got Jake. but the run va:
home, and but for the great first sack
ar er's quick thinking, Steinfeldt would have
~ easily got Burch.
~ Daubert started to play professional ba!
=. in 1907. His first engagement Was wiz
=. the Kane club of the Interstate League
al The league busted after two months. am
w Jake was a free agent. TIE CLEVELAND
~, club was after him then, but he was IN
~ ~ aware of it, so he signed up with the Ma
y rion club of the o. and p. League Cleve
NO land got him from Marion. and in 19a'
70 turned him over to Nashville, which thei
AZ was practically the Cleveland farm. Clere
lie land got him back again in the fail %
al 1905. but sold him to Toledo, which clgi
10 later sold him to Memphis, where Jail'
nj was playing last year when Larry SuttoT
spied him.
90 Daubert is twenty-five years old. am
RI makes his home. said before. IN Lie
IN HeIiyn Pa. where he conducts a poo
r. and billiard parlor. Jake IS married anC
has two children, a boy and girl.