The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-09

In the baseball dictionaries of the future, you Will find opposite. TN
wor Fred Clarke, IN following synonyms, Old Renaoe ahio M 49,.
of purpose and achievement To put it plain, you "a SET IN a pet VI ms
Fred Clarke for win place and show, o tn season ace n go 10 steep
on it, He doesn't disappoint.
Clarke comes iron Kansas, where they grow the finest specimens IN
all the kingdoms and queendoms, animals vegetables n sporting. john
j. ingalls,, the greatest orator of modern times, cam from kansas. 30 uo
many another proud products. and they all combined to make OF KANSAS
Kansans is Clarke the baseball giant Clarke n for three years lee TN
left fielding; who twice made a mark the highest o record In M Nauonai
league; for who 10 years batted 800, and who planted the hrst pen
nant In F1ttsburg n followed 1t VI with wv more OIL Tic s""e s' ~
immediate succession You've heard of Clarke.
Fred Clarke is a graduate farmeist He va brought up.on IN Old
homestead, and you can argue anything you like ~ of that The bio
graphers like to dwell o the country lads who reach emnence, n there's
m harm in the practice. Anyway, Fred was a chore o. on TIT prairie anu
a baseball player IN the level Long before the worlds fair he was play
ing will the Mascottes of s Moines. they made a wise pick when
they added him to their team. A Memphis scout, who a sTayed a ew
states west watched the work of young Clarke, and snapped him fol M
Tennessee team. That ws move Nc. /. Billy Earnie, who solved problems
for Louisville, glimpsed Clarke att his cheerful Memphis ndeavors lex
thing Fred "a Colonel Clarke IF Kentucky. Move g.
Louisville liked Clarke, and Clarke liked Louisville, n between the
two of them they became famous. A good part O Clarke's excellent record
"a made with the Louisville team, and it "a a rea loss to thu burg when
Boss Dreyfuss beckoned the willing worke to the Pittsburg pasture. u
what was Kentuckys deprivation a distinct gain to Pennsy. Clarke
threw himself into the bigger work with a spirit that asst tut all thought
of the teams pas disappointments He "a given the management and
if he couldn't plant a pennant where none had grown before. he'd back out
of the state and commune with the cows o his native praries
This wasn't necessary. Pittsburg raj a good second in that 1900 year,
M by this time having felt tut hi materiaL Fred as not to be headed.
He ploted Pittsburg into the winning stride in 1901, 1902 and 1903 and he
made the I'M of Pirates the most dreaded in all the land of baseball
While he a doing these big things fol- tn team, h a serving up a N
all the precept you could utter in a league season. Iso W record for big
batting stood .S54, 1927, .46, .SS. 1928, 1916, .s5l, .36 and 800. In left field
ing he led the league in 1901 with a mark Of 1867; in 1904 he felded .s79
and in 1907 n again in 1909 he led with .9S7-the highest figures since h
beginning Of organized professional ball IN 1871. And all the time running
bases like a n outside man at a race tract in the days before the trouble.
Besides, which, he covered the ground a $ thoroughly a a bizzardy snow
Storm, n " felt fatigue
It's a good hing there isn't a ball team made up Of nine Fred Carkes.
1t would rob the game of all interest