Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-12-08 | Page 8 | Another Freak for J. J

ANOTHER fREAK fOR J. J J. J J Elongated From Iran the Cite Jun Jungles lcM I AVI win III 11 Join in the Sp New York 1011 Dec 7 Early Earl Early in February February ar ary John J. J McGraw will tako take up tho the thota ta task of ot hauling out of or the tho far sticks foot by foot and yard b by yard ard the longest baseball player that ever coiled colled himself around a n. Jungle diamond Not ot content with the distinction of unveiling unveiling unveil unveil- ing InS tho the largest piece picco of ot pitching statuary statuary statu statu- ary ever seen seem in Harlem McGraw will now crow present to the Big City tho the most mORt extensive outfielder that was ever over distributed distributed dis dis- under Coogans Coogan's Bluffs The name is V William Jacobson and he hI will como come bulging into the big i league with enough nicknames to carry him through several columns of blog blog- raphy Mobile knew him as Dab BabyDoll Baby BabyDoll Doll D while he IB is also referred to as High Pockets and Timber Line His name nama proves pro his Scandinavian ori ori- gin sin He Is some soma six Bis feet foot sl six inches from shore line to roof and will weigh h more morn than we dare daro sa say McGraw dug due him out of ot tho Three Eye n n. year ago and turned him over ovel to Mike Miko Finn at nt Mobile after atter looking him hint over at Mar- Mar lin Big Elg- Bill BIlI has a large open countenance countenance countenance ance and a serious expression but ho he Is anxious to learn to play baseball Finn developed him Into a slashing outfielder outfielder outfielder out out- fielder and tho Southern league loague averages averages averages aver aver- ages show that ho he hit lilt better than GO and stole enough bases to satisfy McGraw McGraw Mc Mc- Graw that ho he h has s improved Bill was originally a catcher and Wilbert Robinson RobInson Robinson Rob Rob- inson tried to him to return to that trade but William prefers the out- out fielding business A bad finger crowded him out from Crom behind the bat