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.

You've got to give it To Jake paubers
| Brooklyn's first sacker. when 1t comes 10
crowding more persistency into less space
OF time than any other big league ball
player ever did before.
Jake has been playing professt onai base
bali just three. years. but In ,tIat perioI
a half dozen managers have told him
that the minute they saw hgn play bal;
/ they could tell that he was n wonderful
bricklayer Did this drive jack back 20
| that dear Llcwellyn. Pa. where be has
his home? Not drive. lie Simply made
a mental reservation to4shoW those man
ayers that what they knew about picking
a young star they could put in their eve
! without doing any great appoint OF dam
age to the optic and pack td his hat and
| balls and clippings from the sporting rolt
urun of the LleweIl!n Weekly Telegram.
which told how good lie waS. and started
to show his samples 70 SOMEONE else
Last year John Mctiraw gtot u glimpse
OF Daubert playing first hasS and almost
THREW his arm out of joint reaching for
| fountain pen to sign a draft for tho
minor leagucr. Quick as 3icCiraw VAS
in the draw. however. Charley E5bets'
trusty scout was quicker, and Jake Was
drafted for tho BROOKLYN team.
Being drafted by big league club was
no new experience for Jake. and he did
not wire the Llewellyn Telegram 10 GET
out the stock cuts Of the boosters and
start them Growing. because Liewehyg
was about to be put on the map. First
of all, the Llewellyn Telegram would
have refused the messag e If It had been
| sent collect and. secondly. Daubert knew
that it had crowed twice before when
i.
that later the crows had been sent 10 tlt
discard because Cleveland decided that
he could not make good with the fast
ones.
Brooklyn fans smiled broadly wher
they heard that Ebbets had signed a new
man to play first base. Brooklyn youns
men. reading Abe Yeagers weighty para
graphs in the Brooklyn Eagle. holding
the paper in one hand while they car
Iied the rubber plant into the house foI
the night, remarked that evidently some
body had been striagiEg Ale, for Brook.
Ign had first basemau named Tim .lor.
dan who had once hit the bali into
flock of flats outside the Brooklyn h4i
park. and who would Le Brookiyn's iiisi
baseman until the Gomanus canal frozs
over. SO help me. Charley Ebbets.
But kbDets rad a new manager vic
, knew something about bail players Til:
was no other than our old friend VI iillat
Dahien-the plot begins To thic.teit-aa.
when William saw Daubert at woriA dur
Ing the spring hoND SOhAt
he remarked that Tim Jorda2's bad leea
would probably lay the regular first base
man Up for the rest of the year.
Now UP 10 that moment ItI1 didni
know that lie had anything the mater
with his under pinning. but he took TIE
hint and began TO complain that he was
not strong enough TO stand hard sum
mer on the diamond. and the first thing
you know Danbert was Brooklyn's regu'
lar first baseman.
| According to a Brooklyn paper tia
many glowing reports sent from the soutr
about Jordan's successor served 10 awaken
great interest among tho fans in the new
/! man. The Supertas played Tn" operfga
game Of the season in Philadelphia Quite
I a few Brooklyn fans made the trim r.
, Philiy. Daubert. of course. Mas the mos
. closely observed OF the rev players. lh
got a start that would have paeaut big
handicap for any but game ball pisser
Titus. the first man ND for the oua'Scrs
hit a groundcr down toward first. base
Jake evidently was nervous. In his ARK
iety to make the play quickly. he grabhei
at the ball before il reached him. witf
I the result that it went through his legs
so that his first c1ance in the Nationa
League resulted in bad error. Rut Jake
didn't let il shake his mere. All the er
rors he has made since can ne coun.ed
on the fingers Of the boy who held on Ia
a cannon firecracker.
Some of the fielding plays he has made
and is Yaking right along not even the
peerless Hal Chase can eclipse saws TIE
same Brooklyn authority Not only l.
Daubert a great first basenan but he !.
a good hitter and clever base runner q:
well. One base-ruprinG stunt that b,
pulled early in the season caused Man
| ager Dahen to remark that il was q"
heady piece of base running As lie hlc
ever seen. Birch taking a ion.
chance on scoring. Daubert. in the meH
time was racing up 10 second. 1t Was
game against The Citts and Steiafe'it
who got the throH-in from the outtiela
could have got Burch easily n the plate
Daubert saw it. and calmly turned second
and headed direct for SrenfelGt. For jus
a few seconds Steinfeldt was HonplGscd
seeing Daubert racing toward him Stein
feldt'S hesitation was just long enough t
give Burch the chance 10 score. or course
Ste!nfeldt got Jake. but the run Tas
| home. and but for the great first sack,
er's quick thinking, Stenfeldt would have
easily got Rurch.
Daubert started to play professional IA
in 1907. His first engagement wi.t
the Kane club of the Interstate leacl!e
The league busted after two months. an"
Jake was a free agent. Tie Cievelani
club was after him then. bat he aas uE.
aware of it, so he signed up with the Ma
rion club Of the Q. and p League. CleVr-
land got him from Marion. and in 1naS
turned him over to Nashville, which theH
was practically the Cleveland farm. Clcye.
land got MIN back again in the fail OF
1905 but sold him TO Toledo, Whica cl.G
later sold him to Memphis where .ial,.
! was playing last year when Larry Sutton
Spied him.
| Daubert is Twenty-Five years old. ana
makes his home. as said before IN Lie
| weIiyn Pa. where he conducts Il poo
| and billiard parlor Jake is married ana
has two children. 4 boy and a gin.