The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-05-30
II Connie Had the Southern
Slugger Now, There Would
~ Not Be a Race
SHOELESS WONDER is
- PLAYING GREAT GAME
His Work, More Than Anything
Else, Keeps the Maps Dan
ger0usly High
BY RALPH L.. YONkER.

It's a mighty good thing for Amer
ican league baseball that Connie
Mack booted one and let Joe Jack
son, the smuggling southern butcher
boy get away from him.
With the Athletics already top
heavy favorites for the pennant and
leading every club but the over
speedy Maps by Philadelphia
square, there would be no contest
whatever II Joey were added to the
Athletics run making equipment.
Being q pitcher opposing the Ath-
letics would be ~ pleasant az prov
Ing that Teddy IL q souse. After get
/ ting Murphy and Oldring. one 'of
whom Is hitting .266 and the other
.2so. out OF the way, said pitcher
would have only to think of Eddie
1 Collins, very unsluggish young
! gentleman who II hitting over 400
Having disposed OF Eddie, there
would be only Jackson, who hits
.434 with a big bulge on everybody
In the league for extra base smashes,
Frank Baker, another butcher OF
home run fame, and Stuffy Mclnnis.
Il IL Jackson's great work. more
than anything else. that has enapled
Cleveland to lead the American
hxue In hitting and In long hits.
The Shoeless Wonder has been
cloutinx the ball with such murder
"a. effect that he has opposing pitch
era bufaloed. He had q remarkable
recor d6f being passed Is times DUR
Ing the four games that the eastern
clubs Mayed with Cleveland at Cleve-
land during the recent invasion. five
az these passes came from CONNIE
Mack. who ordered his hurlers 10
walk the butcher rather than give
him q chance to get In his shcihs
In all, IL of the passes came pur'
posely when there were men on the
hases waiting for Joey to slug them
home.
Jackson's record for extra base
hits n no far ahead OF everybody
\ elae'a that there seems no chance 10
catch up with him until late In the
season It best, unless he takes
fearful slump.
Iackson's peculiar disposition
brought him to the Maps. The Atm
letics saw him nrst and secured MN
from the Greenville club In the south
Carolina league. where Joe USED "
bring out the crowds to see MIN MT
home runs, one almost every game.
Connie Mack tried Joe out In the ran
az 1908. Joe missed ny IN the
outneid one day and the crown
joered him
He mysteriously disappeared soon
Mack had his men look him up. one
az them found him going south ana
persuaded him to return to the csuo.
But Joey thought better OF II atter
/ he had started back north and TOOK
French leave, beating 1t back TO
Dixie while his keeper kept on rld-
ing unaware that his bird had nowh.
They like to say that Joe was
frightened by the tall buildings but
most people believe that better en-
cuse for Jackson's sudden departure
II found in his inconsistencies.
At any rate. Joe went home, WHY
nilly. Later he consented TO De
fnrmed to Savannah. which was down
south and not very far from nome
Then he was released by Mack out
right to New Orleans.
Which was one very unfortunate
. move on Mack's part, as Is borne out
b. the way the Maps are tickling
the heels OF the Athletics this sea
ION. when the Athletics are making
such strenuous efforts to regain the
nag they should have won last sea
con, had the flowing bowl not spilled
their chances.
II Ia Jackson more than anyone
else who Is making 1t possible Tor
the Maps to do this tickling Win
anything shorter than a lofoot feath-
er buster.
In the meantime. tho men who
ike to see an exciting Dennant race
are smiling smugly every time they
think OF Mack's missing Joey and
I what II Is meaning TO the chase.
Eastern high and ID. L. =. baseball
teams have out-of-town games TO-DAY.
Eastern meets Saginaw Eastern ~
Saginaw and ID. T.. :. meets Bay Guy
Eastern. ON saturday the teams
nwttch cities.
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