The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-15
Hughey Jennings Has Spent Quarter
 Century on Diamond

Hughey Jennings, who holds the l leash on the ferocious Tigers. win | nave a little private celebration to- morrow It will commemorate the
 tWenty-ftfth anniversary of his debrt
 Tn professional baseball. Jennines. 1 has spent a quarter of a century on. tne diamond, as player and pilot and ! Is now forty-five years old and sti1I well under the Osler limit HuRhev
 IS a lawyer on the side, and when he
 luits the game will be in a position.
 to emulate John K. Tener,v enter
 politics, go to Congress, and possibly take up his residence in the executive mansion in Harrisburg. Jennings was born in Pennsylvania, and, although
 his summer address is Detroit, he
 state.
 It was on June 16, 1890, when he was twenty years old, that JenniuRs
 broke into professional baseball. On
 that occasion he operated in right
 field for the Allentown, Pa, club 4hen
 Tn the Eastern Interstate League. His
 accomplishments were not iparticu-
 larly brilliant nor full of promise. In
 four visits to the plate he got one
 hit, and that was about all he did
 do. Besides performing briefly with
 Allentown, Hughey played with the
 Leighton senni-pro club that year
 Jennings started his professional
 career in stirring times. The Broth
 erhood war was being waged, and the
 baseball world was in a state of up-
 heaval. Besides the Players League which lasted only year, there were two old major circuits in existence, the National League and the Ameri- can Association. Hughey broke into the big show with the Louisville team of the latter organization in 1891. There was a war on that year also, as the American Association had hnn --Ir1
 the difficulties between the National and Players leagues
 ! In Louisville Hughey played under the mana cement of Jack ChaDman and the red7headed Pennsylvanian made a favorable impression. Tn 1892, when the American Association dropped out and Louisville was ad- nnttted into the twelve-cIub National League, Jennings continued to play shortstop for the Colonels. He stuck in Kentucky until the close of the '93 season, when he was svvapped to Baltimore. Thence he became a member of the immortal Oriole in field, and had as his neighbor one lawn McGraw, who was then playing third while Hughey covered short. Jennings did his full share in heIpinR Ned Hanlon's team win three pen nants in a row in '94, '95 and s6 In those annums he led the National League shortstops in fielding. and oatted- 332. .sS6 and ,892, respective y> Aside from that he didn't do much.
 In 1899 Jennings was shifted to Brooklyn, and owing to an injury to lis wing, had to play first instead of 'hort, his natural position. He stuck around Brooklyn a couple of years md was then sent to the PhilHes. where he covered the initial bag, and vas captain and manager. In 1908 le dropped out of the main show and vent back to Baltimore, which had apsed into a minor league city and vas in the Eastern League He re- nained there until 1907, when he vas drafted by Detroit, and made bench manager of the Tigers. They were might tame jungIe-cats when Iughey took charge of 'em. FIughey ed 'em raw beef, or something, and. r o, and also behold, the club which lad finished sixth in 1906 copped the remnant in 1907. After that there Tas nothing much to the American r 1eague race but Hughey's felines for hree years. After that they stuck in he first division, among the leaders ntil 1912 and 1918, when they fin shed sixth.