South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-11-05
Do YOU RECALL
OLD GINGER LII?
HE s GOING SOME
Popular Third Stacker of Gid
Greens is Michigan State
League Favorite-He Tells
Something on Harry Arndt.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence
LUDINGTON, Mich, Nov. 5.-The
name OF Ginger lii" (Olive On)
Sager Will be handed down from gen
Grafton 20 generation of followers OF
Central league and Michigan State
league baseball. Mayhap wnen one
of the greatest infielding arms in the
world begins 10 kink, Ginger Lii viii
give up olive oil baths and ME him 20
a SUMMER cline where the sun viii
boil his blood and lubricate the joints
of that time-tried super.
But from present indications Ginger
is going TO meet his fate in the Michi-
gan State. That's one Of the predictions
in that old parody which followed
Casey Jones' ia natural popularity
In the chorus Ginger Ill mounts TO
the bumpers with his bat sack in his
hand and takes his farewell trip into
the blue grass land. Substitute
woody for blue grass and you
have Ginger lii located. He's now
hibernatiag-its his second season
herein Ludington, America, as
Heine Tieman might elucidate
We Should Shudder.
And how that wind sweeps down
the street unchecked except by tho
ldnCltQ DIOleCllon u the bIEatAA dltE
piers far down LudingtOn's streets.
The very element that would make
brittle the baseball arm you would
think, but after the winter OF 1923
Ginger's throwing extremity showed
no signs of failing or stiffness.
Queen Lii hustles freight in the
winter. At least he's connected with
the freight Office Of the Pere Mar
quette railroad.
The veteran is as great a favOrite
around the bush circuit as in the Cen
trail. They refer 10 him as the grand
old man in Michigan, despite his claim
of but 30 SquintS at the buds of spring.
The grey around his temples is
extending into the region Of the
crown and his forehead seems 10 be
heading toward the same spot. But
IL, as some assert, he has admitted
To be his real axe. or so, Ginger
capers as cheerfully and as full OF the
real thing IN pepper as ever. In the
field he is a whirlwind and with the
old stick he has at last eluded a nine
years batting slump.
Fast on Ground Balls
Ginger's not very fast going down
to first. but he circuits as many times
as the best. When he goes after a
ground ball you would think ne vas
the fastest man in the world Judging
by the Calling gun action of his thin
legs in five or six steps. His natural
inability TO cover ground in record
time is revealed, though. when he has
to run more than 30 feet.
And his arm. There never was
such an arm and never viii be an
other. they say. Ginger cares not
where he fields a ball; it's going TO
the proper place in the quickest pos
Sible time. South Bend fans viii re-
member Ginger once had a habit OF
hinging the ball far and high at critic
al stages; at least il seemed that way
to the twice or thrice weekly bug.
Ginger has reached that stage Of Sc
date conservation where he can no
longer see any point IN raising the
hopes of the opposition or depressing
the home gang by a wild heave Occa-
sionally II might afford novelty To
his play, Ginger figures, but at the
same time il lengtnens the game
Therefore. he throws accurately. al
ways with the express purpose OF get
ting the days labor over as soon as
possible.
He stopped Finally.
Oh he's human, IS Ginger. one
day he knocked down a one hop hard
hit ball with a man on first base and
chased il all the way into right field,
permitting the runner to take third al
though he recovered in time to hold
the hitter at first
At the beginning OF last season
Sager announced his firm intention az
starting south TO his parents home I'm
Kentucky the night Of Sept. 1.-THE
league season ended on the 14th. He
changed his mind during the summer
and decided 10 take another chance
on the icy LudingtOn lake breeze and
adopt a new method OF treatment I'm
the spring Ginger has been relying
since he was in this section upon
daily olive applications, but the COM
ing season, he says he is going TO
keep a bath tub of the oil ready and
take a plunge in il every day.
2. 3 This is on the quiet. When
someone inquired one day how old
Harry Arndt, Mariner manager. was,
Ginger replied. "Oh. he's the ancient
mariner. himself. / peeked through
knot holes TO see him play when
was in knee pants" Taking into con-
sideration the common Judgment Of
Olive Oirs age. Harry IS classed ~
those who received the statement d.
rectly or by heresay with Pop Arson.
Not 80 Old.
In justice 20 Harry, We must add We
have it on authentic authority that:
If Ginger LII Sager is a truthful man
Che says he Is only 30, rememberD
Harry Arndt isn't more than four
years older than the local favorite.
SACRED HEARTS DEFEATED
The st. Stephens school football
team defeated the Sacred Heart school
team by a score Of 23 TO Tuesday
If IN Grounds