The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-03
pop ANSON
Old TIMER
IS BROKE

1 Chicago, ILL.,. June 3-"Pop" Anson
the idol Of Chicago baseball fans fol
q generation and lionized perhaps
more than any other grand old man OF
me great national game, is broke. y
Not that he has Welded to full mem
oership in the "down-and-out" club
but he has lost all the 100000 he
WIS repnted to have when he retired
from the game in 1898, aftcs having
managed and captained the Chicago
National leaguers for twenty-five
years, leading them to six pennants
I ard winding up with trip around
The globe.
Pops" last financial straw blew
away yesterday. A mortgage on his
home, or rather his wfe's home, at
l6C East Thirtieth street, near Calu-
net avenue, was foreclosed by the
I1ibernian Banking association in de.
fault Of notes aggi egating $6,S00.
Without A Whi~p-r
Pop had received notice and is
having a deed prepared, ready to give
ap on demand. He hasn't arranged
for a new home yet, however, and
hopes to be permitted to pay rent
and remain in the old home at least
until fall
But III get out at once without a
rhimper if | have to- said Captain
Arson after finishing and winning a
game OF billiards in a Madison street
hall.
NO, I'm not worrying any, he an
swered after laying down his cue. "A
man who's broke hasn't time to wos-
~. He's got to hustle. And, anyway
YOU know, I'm not a kicker. Never
Was. I've been treated fair enough
by the holders of the mortgage on the
home. and il it hadn't been for my
loss a few months ago of my semi
no ball park at Sixty-third street and
st Lawrence avenue think I'd been
able to arrange to carry the notes
over. 7 paid off $4,000 on the park
last year, but Nathan McChesney
ologed down on me. and didn't give
me the chance he promised.
Wife Gives Up Home
Anson Is said TO have lost about
$4,000 in his billiard hall venture
taat ended three years ago. In his
prosperous days he had decided the
home over TO his wife. Virginia, and
She consented to thesmortgage to alh
him in the enterprise. In recalling MS
business failure, "Popp' had only
this comment:
Il failed because ! didn't make
money
But Pop isn't all in BY a long
SHOT added the veteran player ana
manager. "lf Pop knows anything
its baseball ] may say one thing
and that is, Anson never carried any
rotten team about this country. And
iron The looks of things in both Ma
.ional and American leagues, there Is
{, eed for a man who has such rec
ord
Il won't get personal, but | may
Eet back In the game. | made sue
cess of II while | was at It and be
hcve | can do Il again. And | may
get biz team soon. On the other
hand. | may accept vaudeville oi'
Ter. turned down $25l week
short time ago. but the syndicate mas
come up, and III cont'a act for monolo'
euing.
Can't Keep Him Down
You cant keep good man down.
so Just say that I'll got along some
how"
Il warned Pop rot 70 20 into bus.
jness." said Mrs Apson Hut it's all
right now, I've rad my Iittle cry and
wen give mp the home when It's cali
ed for. Wele lived here twenty-siS
years though-al through Pops pros
perous days-and, Of course, it's hard
TO have to leave. But Arson is In
good health ard 80 long as that Is
the case vel gel along all right
"1'he only trouble with Pop, as the
average successful broker would sum
u. Is hes been too honest and easy
pong.' He has treated everybody
but hasn't got square treat |
nrnt In return.