Evening journal., 1914-07-15
PLANK An example
FOR YOUNG players
His Life Different From
Waddell and Schrecken-
gOSt
TWO BRIGHT LIGHTS
OF THE GAME DEAD

Every young ball player and every
young man as well, should ponder
deeply over the history Of three men
who were stars of the carly American
League days, says the Baltimore News.
From the record Of their lives, and
their manner of living, and their pres
ent condition, lesson can be deducted
which ought TO help every young ana
mond star in deciding how he VIII spend
his time off the ball field.
OF these three men the moving inger
has stopped writing about two Of them,
for they have ceased to be, at least m
mortal habiliments These two, Bube
Waddell and Ossie Schreckengost, COM
posed a battery the like of which for
mechanical skill has seldom been
equalled. The third man, who is still
with us. TO the great benefit of the Attn
letics' 1914 pennant prospects, rs Ed
ward Plank, the lelt-handed pitcher
Rube and Ossie were sports. They
looked al the lights ~hon they were
white and at the wine when 10 was red.
plank STAYED at home or at the hotel II
the team was ON the road. Plank was,
and is. a man of simple tastes, a man
who in his life as q farmer had come
to know nature too we'll and too inti-
mately to try to peryert or drug ms
faculties. And last Wednesday he shut
out Detroit. one of the teams the Attn
letics will have TO beat TO win TINS
years pemant, with three hits.
Also on last Wednesday about noon,
three hours and a half before Plank
started pitching the above mentioned
game Shreck, his equal In age, col
lapsed Numerous diseases afflicted him,
among them uraemia. He was beyond
medical aid. call in" as he himself put
it. when he regained consciousness for
short space late Wednesday night.
Next morning he died and went TO Join
Waddell, who had died one month be-
fore at San Antonia. Texas. where he
had zone. not on a training trip, which
is what usually takes ball players
there but to get ready TO die of con
sumption.
The Rube was so picturesque IN his
grotesque escapades that Schrecken
cost was reegated to a secondary posi-
fion i'm the folk lore that gathered about
the names of the famous battery. II
was the Rube who went fishing, IT wa
the Rube who called the outiielders II
the ninth. and it was also the Rube wh'
died first one month ahead of his sat
elite
Schieck was a wonderful player II
the departments of catching and throw
ing He also knew baseball Ih'
amount of thinking he and the kub'
did in pinch in the deciding game o
crucial series was only surpassed 10y
the lack of thinking they did IN al
other places except Columbia pail park
And thev have reaped the harvest they
sowed in the springtime Of their lives
Because Plank is still alive, and vii
probably be alive for a geat man.
wears to come barring accidents, 1t II
not customary 10 pay tribute TO tn
sort of life he led. But if eXampl
counts for anything, then the eXampl
Of how to live cleanly heolthily an.
at the same time athletically, whic
Plank has given, will be something
that every young uall player should oh
serve. There may seem 10 be LOT o
fun 10 he had where the flowing bow
flows. and that part of the welkin, en-
closed bv the walls of the saloon. rings
hut when the days and months noun
into years. the account will all b
squared up.