Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-03-28
LADY REPORTER WRITES
OF SANGER'S CAREER
Finds Interesting Features in History
of Pullman's Representative
To the Legislature.


Rowe Dunbar for the Tacoma Sun
day Ledger. The clipping was for
warded to The Herald by w. E
Hanson, former Pullman citizen, with
the following comment:
Enclosed find clipping from the
Tacoma Sunday Ledger of March i
about our mutual friend. Hon. f. E
Sanger, your representative in the
last session of the legislature.
Il was in Olympia several times
during the session and found Frank
on the job at all times and making
good. Frank was very anxious in
the beginning and was sure of his
ground before he started anything.
but along toward the last he got in
some very good ticks and made a
mark for himself, and also gained the
respect of all the other members as
they found out that he was indepen-
dent and acted on his own best judg-
ment and did not try to play politics
or get in the ring in order to get IA
pull
The story from the Ledger is as
follows:
He was the 10th man the misfit.
When they swung out on the baseball
diamond, Haunting their new gray
suits, Frank Sanger hung his head
he did not dare look toward the
grandstand for his best girl because
he was the 10th mantle man who
wore the black suit He was the lad
gho received all the ,ieers, all the
lard knocks, all the kidding" from
the fellows. But it was being the
10th man that marked Representa-
tive Frank +. Sanger for baseball
fame.
So, Mr.. and Mrs. and Miss Baseball
Fan, here is real thriller of a story
from a real baseball player who has
been sitting in the House of Repre-
sentatives of this state for the last so
days and making laws with the same
certainty and skill that he exhibited
in the old days when the pitchers
box was home, sweet home" to him.
When Frank Sanger was about Is
be lived in small town in southern
Michigan. There was great rivalry
between the teams of the various
iowns-they were out for each others
scalp. Well, one of the biggest games
Of the season was on in Franks
home town and lover of baseball that
DE was he was getting chummy with
all the players, caressing the hats
and trying out the bans. The pitcher
Tor the home team was knocked out
of the box and since Frank was
known to be pretty good twirler he
was called to the box True to the
stories OF the traditional hero, Frank
pitched the home team to victory.
The next season he was on the
hlgh school team. Each year he
pitched for the high school team
and each year the honored gray suit
was handed out to him first He
pitched all the games during his four
years in high school for the cham
pion baseball team in Michigan AS
ihe result of the notoriety that he
gained in pitching for the champion
ship team for four years he received
many bids from every college in the
state.
ne then attended the University
OF Michigan at Ann Arbor. where he
TOOK up the study of law. But here
his fame and his ability did not end
he was chosen from all the middle
west towns and middle west colleges
as the all-Western pitcher. This
meant that the sporting writer's and
those who followed the dictates of
the baseball bug considered sanear
the best baseball pitcher in the mid
die west.
In the summer of 1907 Sanger
pitched for the Tri-State league
TINS included Delaware, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey. Sanger landed at
Ann Arbor with SIS in his pocket as
an encouragement and supporter to-
ward gaining an education. His
good right arm. twirIing all summer
long was what made it possible for
aim to become an attorney.
Then he decided that he would give
ap baseball for good.
i liked to play said Representa-.
i've Sanger, "and it is a great sport
But then it had served as a means Of
gaining my education and felt tina,
II did not hold the future. l decided
10 come west and look for a location
for law office. came to the eoast
IN 1902.
Mr.. Sanger had offers from man,
Of the big leagues. But he cluny r.
me goal that he had been WORKING ~
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