The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
HEINIEZIM, THE PHLEGMATIC TEUTON,
 2o YEARS OLD TODAY

It has often been remarked that Germans are stolid and phlegnatic of disposition. Mebbe they be. As Exhibit A of a sluggish and dull Dutchman, there is Herr Henry zim-
 merman, better known as Heinie, or Heiniezim, for short. Heinie, who has gained quite reputation among baseball fans as the slugging third sacker of the Chicago Cubs, is so bull ly full of phlegn that he occasion- ally goes through a whole ball game
 without having a run-in with the
 umpire or set-to with another play
 CT. Yessir, you may not believe it,
 but the statistics show that Heinie
 has done just that At the risk of
 being consigned to membership in
 the Ananias Club. it may be stated that Heiniezim once played through a whole series at the Polo Grounds of his native village without being fired out of a game by the umps. Heiniezirn was born in New York City, up py der Bronnix, and will be- gin his t1irtieth year to-day, as Feb. 10, 1886, was his natal date. It was a mighty, unIuclSy thing for the Kai- ser that Heiniezims ancestors set
 tied in America, for our hero, what with his sudden and hair-trigger dis position and his propensity to pug nacity, would doubtless have made one grand soldier. On second thought, however, Heinie would probably spend most of his time in a dungeon keep, or something like that, charged with assaulting his su- perior officer.
 The bellicose Zirn has always been l that way. He was only a mere chee-i1d when he started playing the
 American national game in the va cant lots of his native Bronx. and 1 his piaymates soon learned that it was desirable to enlist as an um- 1 pire a husgy lad about three times as big the bel1icose =Dutchman. Even so the s'enpire'' often got the worst of it, not having the power to
 manhood's proud estate Heiniezim l became 9 semi-pro player with the Bronx A. C., and other clubs, and at the age of twenty he was signed by i the Wilkesbarre, Pa, club in the New York State League. Heinie 1 played two seasons with the hyphen- ated city, and was then signed on by the Cubs Since then the pilots of the Cubs have been kept busy managing Heiniezim that they had 1 to let the other players manage 1 themselves. The clouting hero of
 the Bronx has been svVatting the pill f--when> not similarly engaged with l the urnpires-around the 300 mark
 for several seasons, and in 1912 he led the league with an average of 1 .372
 Heiniezifn first donned the Cub 1n- form in 1908, since which he has
 worn no other. For a couple of 1 seasons he spent most of his time on the bench, occasionally playing sec- l ond- Since then he has been a reg ular. and has been chiefly engaged
 at the third sack, although on occa- sions he has played second and short Heinie is believed to entertain a Ihankering to leave Chicago to it's fate and get an engagement in the Big Town of his birth. But he la
 ments, "a. tall chance got. If ] l lived in OskaIoosa or some other fa1 away town such deal might be l pulled off, but I don't believe it pos sible for fellow who was born and
 brought up in New York to get on l one of the home teams
 Heiniezim is not without honor in
 his native neighhorhood, and shares
 with Dick Rudolph the glory of be- ing the Bronxs most iIIustrious na- tive son.