Show POP ANSON Will I SHOW HERE SOON Great Diamond ond Hero Will Appeal Appear Ap Ap- Ap- Ap pear peal Before the Footlights Foot Foot- lights An attraction of or rare rc interest interest n a combination combination combination com com- of or the tile glorious past with the hustling up-to up up date present will be bet t seen here soon when Cant Adrian C. C Anson The Grand Old Man of or Baseball Baseball Base Base- ball l steps before the tho footlights and dell delivers the greatest monologue of or baseball stories told by lIy an any of or our baseball base actors Pop Iop Anson landmark of or the tho game and one of or tho grandest lI figures ures tho the sport has over o known I is to this day an Ideal of oC the tans fans all over O tho country The Tho ol older er generations knew him cheered him Ion long ago ao and lamented when It he left the diamond the younger generation swear b by his name strive to tu model their baseball plans and dr dreams by b- his great reat career and only wish that they could coul seo see him In action now holy rho They can Captain Anson hale and hearty his sixty odd years cars carsa a a. model o oC of th the perfect athlete t who has Jetted defied a age e and ancl Osler's Osiers theories is as rich find and rare a 8 baseball enthusiast as ash ashe ashe h he ever er was n The leador leader of oC the tho old oM Chlea Chicago o Colts was tho lie star of oC his da day and from 1871 up to lo the tho time limo he quit fifteen years yearn alto ago had a remarkable battling record In fact tho the greatest in the history of at the game averaging rug for Cor twenty seven consecutive o years batting over o upon four occa occasions lonN and only during durIng during dur dur- ing his two twenty years of or service Her as captain and anil nn nH manager er of ot th tit Chicago National National Na Na- I a lea league club falling falline below ani and that season hitting hitting- 9 In thelast tho the last league garno gamo in which ho he participated participated el the final game of 1597 between Chicago o g-o and St. St Louis ho he made mado four homo home runs which stands stand HH as ono of or tho the greatest test of records rEcord today In speaking of or Anson II 4 on a 1 prominent sporting writer once oneo sal said In Lm the tile olden days he ho w would uld advance to the rubber his rc red face set sel into a l severe se frown beat with diro ferocity upon Ullon tho plate with his bat and thon hitch up his leo sleeves leoS S. S He lie hitched up tip I those sleeves es three or fir four times limes and anit then let the first ball HO go o bv Lv no matter how filoso or tempting Then he let j another r KO JO and m usually roared prodigiously pro pro- at the umpire If it it was called a strike Then he hit sending the tho horsehide sphere screaming like a a. Io lost t I Ia soul along tho the far horizon If Old Anse hit lilt them as a r rule lc ju Just t a C little above c the Infield too high to be I reached sinking too loo low for tOl the tho outfield outfield out out- field to got get In on top tOIl of or them when Then he lie lifted the ball it was at a a. sharp rl rising ris sing s- s ing Ine- angle When hen ho he hit hilt a grounder it t tripped ripped up tho the od sus and arul ma made o life lito a danger dan lan danger laner ger er for Cor tho the shortstop or 01 third Once In a a. i while he calmly bunted and ancI got ot awa away with it because tho the third baseman would hr so be f Iso astonished ho he could not do anything Thus did ld tho the old mull nuin swat nn and ati great was tho ho cr crash s l when lie he swatted I |