The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-18
CURTAIN CALLED ON MANY PLAYERS
MERkLE AMONG THOSE WHO HAS APPEARED IN BASEBALL
 FOR THE LAST TIME.
Kllifer, Flack and Others Win Drift Into Other Lines and Will Not Again Attempt to Be Big Leaguers."

i Leaguers.'
 Chicago, sept 17-TTning their l lacks upon baseball until the Ger man lcgions shall have been driven back acrcss the Rhine, members of tEc Cub machine who won the Ma tional league championship Lut could not garden the world totle, have scattered far and wide. complyn5 with the order of the provost marshal general either to work or fight.
 Chicago fans, deprived of their fa vorte sport, watched the departure Of their favorit5 with feeling of gloom II was apparent that number among the vanis hing stars never again would scintilatc in the sporting Armament and that hencelorward they will be merely names, vaguely remembered by a Tickle public which easily for gets.
 Among the men who in normal times could Gc counted on for several seasons more of baseball on the "big time" but who under present c0ndi- tions probably will never don the uni form again, Fred Merkle stands pre- eminent The last out in the game at Boston on September II sunded tap" on Merkle's baseball career. enc of the most stormy and the most interesting in the games history. The Chicago first-sacker himself admits lie is "all through" He has gone back to his farm and will devote the re mainder of his life to agriculture, whlth an occasional ball game from the bleachers for relaxation. he says. Merkle announced his retirement in this statement:
 "I am mighty glad that never reached the point where began to slip back toward the minors, I often wondered what would do when reached that point, but instead of my quitting the old game the game has quit me. and l m able to hetire witf some measure of honor at the clos ! of one the most successful season. ever had
 "l am glad 10 quit too. and go Eacl 7, to tho farm rye been on the bis time for long while and for the las few seasons I've missed some Of th, old pep Every spring it has been ,. little more difficult for me 10 get in to condition. and the time would hay, | come when I would have found my self sitting on the bench. waiting fol q chance to bat in a pinch while som' fresh younGster showed me Gp or ; first Then would have come the re : lease. and after that the minors. Tn glad I'm through
 George Tyler, the pitcher. probably has gone forever. Local fans do no believe the old times can come bacl after a lay off that promises to las several years.
 | Bill Killefer will continue to throw t 6aseballs when he is not hrogin. hand arenards in the army, as will al so Charley Hollocher, Bob OFerrel and Bill McCabe. Rollie Ieider another old timer who probably vii never play big leaguc ball again, ha retired 10 his farm
 ! Flack will work as a surveyor fo q railroad construction company nea ,, his home at Belleville, H. Turnc 1 Barber Is hesitating between job il intuition plant with a chance t play tall on the side and season a :! understudy to some farmer
 Phil Douglas is booked for job ii the Alabama Powder Company 0 | Birmingham; Wortman has a jo with a Baltimore drydock company l Nick Carter will pitch for the Nir einia Dupont Company team and d little very little-work in the mil between games Charley Pick vii go 10 work in a San Francisco ship yards Is soon as he can reach tn Pacific Coast
 Claude Hendrix and "Hipo" Naugh1
 have announced they probably vii
 remain in Chicago and seek wartim
 jols. Hippo expects to stage come
 back in baseball when the war is oyei
 b't Hendrix, with long years of faith
 ful service with the Liz show behin
 him Is not so confident.
 Manager Mitchell, of the Cubs,
 trying to break into the army via tn
 quartermasters department, but ma
 emulate the example of his fello'
 manager Clarence Rowland of tn
 White Sox and seek employmer
 Rowland recently took a position wit
 a local sporting goods firm as super
 intendent of manufacture