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Show TIGER WRECKING CREW Harry Heilman Quits Editor' . Desk to Join Detroits. Preferred Writing Sporting News tc Playing Baseball Until He Made Hit on Coast Now Glad He Made the Change. Almost every red-blooded American kid would jump at the chance to join Detroit's wrecking crew and rub elbows el-bows witli Tyrus Raymond Cobb, yet one of the present members of the Bengal slugging combine had other ambitions until four years ago, writes Harold Johnson in Chicago Evening Post. Harry Heilman preferred the com-monplaco com-monplaco career of a sporting editor, and, what's more, he had a paper of his own until one day after a sand-lot game in which he participated he spied his name in the headlines describing de-scribing a ball game. Then he weakened. weak-ened. Hany was a member of the United Amateur Press association around San Francisco, made up of amateur editors whose papers are official organs of some sort of organization, lie could see nothing greater in all the world than hi-, name on the sporting page as an author of an article. He ran his publication, called Pa-cific.o, Pa-cific.o, tn Frisco and played amateur ball, Then he was grabbed by tho Coast league, and when ho saw hia name in big type in the papers he de- I ltd Harry Heilman. cided it was better than, for him to put someone else's name where he now was appearing. So he dropped his first ambition, and' decided to stick to the national pastime. Heilman was drafted by Detroit, ater returned to Frisco and was recalled re-called this spring. His work has been l feature of the Tiger playing, and :he wrecking crew now consists of Zobb, Crawford, Veach, and Heilman. |