Arizona republican., 1920-08-18
CHAPMAN FASTEST MAN IN GAME RANDOM MOURNS DEATH OF STAR
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 CLEV VELAND, Aug. IT, Raymond Chapman was born in McHenry, Ky, January 15, 1891, He had been a mem Der of the Cleveland American league team since August 30, 1912, and was considered one of the best shortstops and most popular players in the game.
 Chapman played his first profes- sional baseball in 1909 with Mount Vernon. IL In 1910 he went to Spring field, ILL, and from there to Daven- port, Iowa in the Three-I league.
 Cleveland obtained Chapman from Davenport in 1911 and sold him to Toledo in the American association on option. He was recalled to Cleveland in 1912 and had played in more than 1000 games in an Indian uniform
 Chapman was one of the fastest men Tim Murnane day, at Boston, he won a loving cup for the fastest time in circling the bases. doing it in 14 sec onds.
 In 1917 he broke all major league sacrifice hit records with a total of in sacrifices in the following two years.
 Married Last Year
 He was married last year to Cath crime Daly of Cleveland. daughter of M. B. Daly, president of the East Ohio Gas company.
 Mrs. Chapman arrived in New York today. She was met by officials of the American league, including Iris Speaker. manager of the Cleveland team, who sought to comfort her. Speaker declared that later in the day he would issue statement dealing with the accident.
 At local headquarters of the Ameri can league records on former major league accidents were not available but John A. Heydler, president of the National league, said that as far as he could remember, Chapman was the first player to lose his life in big league baseball. through any kind of an acci- dent.
 Other Similar Accidents
 Followers of the sport were inclined today to believe that although the loss of Chapman would handicap Cleveland, the Yankees too. would suffer. They pointed out that few years ago, after accidentally hitting a player with q ball. Walter Johnson failed to shoSw his usual form in succeeding games, so affected was he by the accident.
 The most receht accident of the kind occurred in the South last spring when during the training games of the SuperDaS and Yankees a ball thrown by Jeff Pffeffer, the big Brooklyn pitcher. struck Chick Fewster on the head. Fewster was in the hospital for several weeks undergoing an operation for a fractured skull. Pfeffer was off form for several weeks, but improved when it became apparent that Fewster would recover.
 Another widely known case was that of Hugh Jennings, now manager of the Detroit Americans. but then a member of the championship Baltimore team, who was unconscious some time after having been hit by a ball pitched by Amos Rusie of the New York Ma tiona1s.
 Another accident was that which be- fell Roy Corhan of the White Sox here in 1911. Corhan. then a recruit short stop from the coast, was hit on the head by Russell Ford, former Yankee star spit baller. For three days Cor han was unconscious and although he recovered, his career in the big leagues was cut short. Ford was so badly af- fected by the mishap that he could not sleep while Corhan was uncon- scious and later had to be sent to At lantic City for two weeks.
 The district attorneys office indi- cated today that it was not planned to investigate the accident. A formal police investigation. however, was started when a detective was sent to interview Pitcher Mays