Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-03-28

strapping, heavy set, black-haired
pitcher who furnished the Sound and
coast with a real baseball thrill and
who played under the name of Bar
rington" That man was Frank b.
Sanger. He played that season with
the Northwestern league.
Just as one of the side issues of
the story it might be said right here
that the world is just around the
corner from us all the time-for
when Frank f. Sanger was playing
with Seattle he badly defeated the
Tacoma Tigers, and Representative
James II. Davis of Tacoma was one
OF tho owners of the Tacoma club and
one of the men who longed to see his
team get the baseball scalp of San
ger In the last 60 days it has not
been pitcher Sanger" and Base
| ball Fan Davis oh no, the bleach
ers have been completely changed
and so has the diamond. In the last
| so days Davis and Sanger have both
been on the diamond-the Legislative
law making diamond.
After the season with the North
western league, Sanger settled in
Pullman, where he began the prac-
tice of law, and today he is one of
the best known attorneys in the state.
When he finished his season with the
Seattle league team he caressed his
bat for the last time, folded his suit
carefully and said goodbye to the
sport of all American sports. He
took up the law game-that was his
new and lifelong game. Baseball
was due to pass from his life by
choice, despite the many offers he
received to enter the big leagues.
We're those days when he played |
against the jeering and shouts of the
'rooters' from the grandstand in
vain? Indeed, were those days when
the girls shouting for the opposing |
team attempted to rag and fuss"
him futile? We're those days when
he had to keep his head and full pos
session of himself all in vain? |
should wager not If you can stand
the pressure of thousands of jeering
fans, why, the "gaff' from the House
members must resemble faint echo
Athletics of any FORM" says
representative Sanger, are one of
the best methods of training a man
for public life that | know of. There
is nothing that will teach a man to
keep his head more than good stiff
years of training in baseball, football
or any other form of public athletics.
Ii gives a man a certain amount of
assurance.
And Mr.. Sanger has proven that
his training has aided him in playing
the legislative game. He developed
into one of the strongest members
of the House during the 60 days that
he was here. He did especially COM
mendable work on the appropriations
and the education committee. Mr..
Sanger lives at Pullman. He served
on the following committees Ap-
preparations, banks and banking, ed
ucation, judiciary, municipal cor
porations, other than the first class
and hospitals for the insane
Mr.. Sanger was accompanied to
Olympia by his wife, who is also $
graduate of the University of Michi- ,
gan at Ann Arbor. Mrs. Sanger was
greatly admired and liked by the Z
olympia and legislative women.
Young Billy" Sanger the third +
member of the family, promises to +
his fathers athletic tenden-
cles. He is already twirling all the +
stones and balls that he can lay his
hands on
MIR Sanger is exalted ruler of the 8
Elks lodge, No. 249; member of +
the chapter Masons, the knights of
Pythias and Sigma Nu fraternity. 6
So the 10th place was lucky for +
representative Sanger-the 10th I
place seemed to be the first round
On the ladder of success for Frank
sanger, baseball league player, at
-orney and representative in the 1919
session of the legislature.
PEARL LEONARD WRITES