The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-04-17
RICH AND POOR, OLD AND YOUNG,
PAY LAST TRIBUTE To CAP ANSON
Public Funeral Services Held
Sunday at Chicago, While
Burial Will Follow To-Day
Body of Mrs. Arson to Be
Inferred at His Side.

Chicago, April 16,-tBy the Assocf
ated Press-)-Rich and poor, old and
young. today paid their final homage
and tribute to Adrian G. Arson, nero
OF the sports world for fifty years. at
public funeral services which were a,
simple and sincere as the life OF the
man for whom they were held.
Tomorrow, the SEVENTEEN anniYer-
sary OF the birth Of the Grand Oid
Man Of Sports" who led baseoaii
teams in days when present players
were youngsters, he will be laid to rest
in Oakwood cemetery. The grave VIII
be only a stones throw from Jackson
park, where Mr.. Arson spent most OF
hi. recent years on the golf links, the
beach or the shooting grounds. Within
a few days the body Of Mrs. Arson,
now buried in Philadelphia, will be
brought here and inferred at his side
unbroken Procession. i.
Throughout the day an unoroRen
procession OF admirers Of basebalrs
frst hero fled silently past the great
banks of flowers which filed one end
OF the chapel where the body lay IN
state.
All day long they came, some In linn
cuisines, some on street cars, others
on foot. Mingling with carefully
dressed men OF wealth were unshaven,
unkempt persons in rags. Sidewalk
traffic was blocked and hundreds were
unable to get into the chapel for tho
services
Many OF the floral offerings came
from nationally known persons. One
6ve-foot wreath bore this inscription:
GOODBYE, Captain. From your old
pal, Billy" II was from Billy Sunday,
who played ball with Mr.. Anson forty
years ago. Others were from John
Heydler, president Of the National
League; 4 N. Lands, baseball COM
missioner: Bill LANCE. old-time ball
player; Clarke Griffith. president OF
the Washington club: Charles A. Co
rniskey. owner Of the Chicago White
So1; Bill Yeeck, president Of the Chi
cago Cubs; Charles Ebbetts. owner Of
the Brooklyn club; the etroit team.
both Chicago major league teams, tho
New York Giants and several other
National and American eLague clubs:
Augie Kieckhefer, former three-cush-
ION billiard champion. and from many
athletic organizations.
Many old-Timera
Mr.. Heydler. Mr.. Week. Mr. Comis-
Key and Judge Lands were present Al
the services, while others who were
observed In the chapel were "Chick"
Evans, internationally Known golfer;
Fred Pfetfer. Jim White and George
Gore, who PLAYED bail with Mr.. An
son: Johnny Eyers. kid" Gleason.
Bob Emslie, veteran National League
umpire and ball player; an OIeary,
famous walker; Tom Foley, who
headed a delegation Of old-time play.
ers, and representatives from numer.
Gus athletic clubs and organizations.
Ar OF the players on the Chicago
and etroit American League teams at.
tended. their game being postponed
until after the services.
Many other boyhood friends Of Mr..
Aneon's came. some Of them so old
they could not walk alone and had to
be assisted by younger persons.
Mingling with these men who had per
sonally witnessed the prowess Of
Cap" or Pop" as they knew him.
we're boys in their teens who knew
the old-timer more as myth than as
an actually. A group Of caddies from
the Jackson park links came for a
last glimpse OF the man they had
heard call fore" so often.
Eulosy by Lands.
Just as the services were started by
Rev. r. Keene Ryan. Il was decided 10
have Commissioner lands give the
funeral Grafton.
The baseball commissioner eulo-
gized Mr.. Arson. his personal friend
for forty years, as man who had
-played the game square" from birth
through his three score and ten years.
He watched baseball and manv
other srovts grow from infancy to their
present state" said the commissioner.
I'VE went through their troubles and
tribulations. But he never taltered,
he;nerer failed in the pinch. he never
made a mistake. We OF today should
pattern our life after this man. I
have never known him TO do auythinrs
that would not bring respect and ad-
miraton right from your heart"
AS the Rev. Mr.. Ryan pronounced
the 1nal words of Dust to Dust"
many handaerchists we're lifted TO the
eyes o. the old-timers who were
grouped on one side OF the chapel.
Tie burial tomorrow will be private.
At first I, rsS iNnned to take the
body to Philadelphia. but il Was felt
that Mr.. Arson could decide. ne