The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-14
JAKE DAUBERT, CHAMPION OF
 N. l.. sWATTERS, 30 TODAY.

If MT. Charles Holiday Ebbets does not pull off a celebration today in the City of Churches and Rubber Plants he will miss a one best bet for this is the birthday of the Dodg- CT nagnates ball team. John Dau- bert. True, there are a few other players masquerading in Brooklyn uniforms, but. taken by and large, MT. Danbert comes pretty near to be- ing the whole works. Jake, as all of us fe1lers call him, will be thirty today. as he was born in Llewellyn, Pa-, May IA, 1885. There may be
 better first basemen than Dauber but you could never make a Brook lyn fan believe it, and when it comes to pasting the pellet-weIl, Jake has led the National league regulars for
 two annums. Daubert's batting average last year was 1929, his clos est rival for the circuits swatting honors being Becker of the Phillies and his team mates, Wheat, Dalton and Stenge1. Of the five leading batters in the old league last year four of them had Brooklyn blazoned on the buzzums. Spite O that, the Superbas finished fifth, and during a large part of the season contested for the cellar championship. In 1913 among the players participat-l ing in more than a hundred games, Daubert led the league with an aver |
 and if he was on a club that had the
 pennant- habit he would be
 hailed as about the greatest ever. Daubert got his professional base ball start with Marion in the Ohio and Pennsylvania league in 1907,
 when he was twenty-two. He had had a little previous experience in a
 hy-by-night circuit which had dis
 banded after a month or two. The big six-foot- one busher looked good to the Cleveland management and the
 Maps swapped Scotty Ingerton for him, but Jake was not given a chance
 to shine in fast company. Tn 1908 he was turned over to the Nashville club E of the Southern league for further tripening. He did so nicely in Dixie that he was recalled by Cleveland but in 1909 he was sold to the Toledo
 American Association club. Jake didn't endear himself to the Toledo I7Inanagem ent, and he was sent back tsto the Southern circuit, and finished 1.-the 1909 season with Memphis iWhile he batted only .186 with Toledo Jake recovered his swatting eye in
 the South and hung up an average of I.314. Toledo soon had cause to re- fgret the sale of Daubert to Memphis for in 1910 he was sold to Brooklyn
 and leaped into almost instant pop nlarity as one of the great first sack tsers and star batsmen of the National
 league. Daubert was given a regular berth at first from the beginning of his Brooklyn career and spent little
 tinae raising the temperature of the
 benches He batted .264 his frst Iyear with the Ebbets aggregation. but lever since he has traveIed in 300 Ecompany1 batting .3o7 in 1911, 3O8 in 1913 and 1928 ine1914. In 1912 he led the National league first base linen in fielding and he has always Hbeen among the top-notchers in that sEdepartm lent.
 Ther have been speedier first sack
 CTS than Daubert, and men capable
 of more brilliant grand stand plays, but for steady. plugging. reliable, de- pendabIe work. Jake at his best has Ito taken nobody's dust. He has been I Handicapped in his career by being I with a club which, since he Joined lit, has never finished out of the sec Isond division. Jake doesn't let that botner him. but just keeps plugging l away, doing his best and turning a Izdeaf ear to counsels of discourage lment.