The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-14

I'M II was NHd1idStt. t'Nh. ~
Leon Brandt. Who Had King kell,
for Manager and Jim Fox for Sec
ond Bascman-Writer Tells Abou;
the Two Great Games Played Here
on "A Fourth Of July. When Greens
boro Put it All Over Charlotte.
It's a little cool just nov to talk
baseball, yet here is a mighty read
able story taken from the Charlotte
Chronicle. The article is written by
'Enoch Spinks, whoever he -, anu Is
as follows:
Down in Greensboro where once
upon a time there was wont to hans
the little rag that is lovingly called
the pennant, the same being of Just
about as little value fromthe renlu-
neratiyp standpoint, that Is To say.
il one wanted to sell il for what II -
worth, or perhaps soak il to your
Uncle Jesse, or as they say III the
Gate City to your Uncle Phil. as any
little piece Of rag could get 10 be,
there is u fan who is 4 fan of the
right sort. He isn't an old man, but
he's an old fan and q good one. Ever
since professional baseball came into
vogue in the Old North State, Leon
Brandt's name has been a synonym
for baseball and clean baseball. When
the fans in the Gate City want any
thing inthc baseball line they look
to Brandt and it doesn't take an
alarm clock to wake him up To base
ball conversation, he just takes TO 1t
naturalk like a duel to dough ana
once he begins to talk dope you've
got 10 go some to get him lose from IT.
Back in 1902 when We had our first
league in his neck of the woods Leon
Brandt Wa the fellow they called on
in Greensboro to daddy the team for
the Gate CITY. Brandt moved around
in a quiet way. his wonders 70 per
form and dug up old King Kelly.
Kelly vas inthe neighborhOod OF -four
hundred and ninety years ora then
and Young at that, but kellyS in the
game yet, though he doesn't cut a
great deal ofthe CONCEALED nr"- like
he did in the old days. Well, Kelly
and Brandt put their heads together
to frame up "a team that would put
it all eel everything. They sue
ceeded in putting it all over, out not
everything. You viii remember that
at the same time here in the city OF
Charlotte there was a mighty war
rior by the name of Ed whose sur
name was Ashenback. Now every
DOUN VINO ItIilcllfptiS tjloSt bhNS =
members the deluge that followed
Ashenback broke the worlds record
at the time for winning successive
games in organized bail. But like all
the with whom histOrys
pages are filled. A~shenback had to get
'his'n.' lie got it good and plenty.
Got it twice inthe same place. Where
old he get it? Right down there in
the aforementioned Greensboro. Got
81 az tho hands of fhp 4.yTeyIt1Dn
that Kelly and Brandt mustered. We
might pause for an instant in passing
and consider who the youngsters OF
tina day were. Firstly ana foremost
there was Jim Fox, product of the red
soil of Randolph county. measured
nine feet two in his bGre feet. Jim
didn't wear socks in those days and
0 couldn't get his measure in his
stocking feet. and between US on the
quiet, | have heard that they had to
hog tie Jim to get shoes on him
hen Kelly first brought him TO town
but Jim has got out Of that and is Il
plum sport. They tried him out mex
season in Atlanta and Jim Won Il
happy home. Won a home in the
true sense of the word. Those Allan
ia fans simply went wild over Fox
They wanted to give him a home in
Atlanta. but I've heard that Jim
wouldn't take the mansion. He always
beat it back TO Randolph when the
season closed and taught a little coun-
try school.
But to get him back to the Green's
boro club of 1902. 1t was on the
Fourth of July, Ashenback and his
wonders came to Greensboro for q
spell. They had a morning game and
an afternoon game. Fox was sta
toned at second | say stationed at
second; he could stand fiat-footed on
second and pick up a grouEder cut
ting down the third or first base line.
That Is to say it looked that w9y