Salt Lake Herald | 1907-11-17 | Page 18 | What Saved Jack Crooks

What Saved Jack Crooks Jack Crooks who played with St StLouis StLouis StLouis Louis Baltimore and Washington and was was a sterling second baseman as well welles as es one of or the most aggravating play players ers who ever went after an umpire usually allowed his whiskers to grow In the winter season eason so EO the boys used to claim that he could impress the St StLouis StLouis StLouis Louis landladies with the idea that he was aj a German professor and thus get board and good board at reduced rates One winter when Tim Hurst was looking up material for his St Louis club Tim then being the manager of that outfit he ran across Jack Crooks in a establishment down dOl near the Eads bridge Jack proceeded to tell Tim about some young whom he had seen work several times Umea in games with amateur teams or semi semiprofessional semiprofessional professional lonal clubs about the Mound city Jack appeared to be enthusiastic and from the way he talked any anyone one could see that he was more than or ordinarily ordinarily ordinarily Interested In the youth As Tim had been experimenting with so many loudly touted young twirlers and had been stung to the limit also he enthuse a little bit over the remarkable lad whom Crooks was tout touting toutIng ing jag In order to make his argument stick Jack conceived the tho Idea of exaggerating exaggerating gerating a little so he be told Tim that in one game he be had seen his young hero pitch the boy had fanned twenty two men Jack said this thi without a gun in and even presented an immovable visage when then Tim turned that cherubic face around and began to stare at the sturdy second baseman As staring appear to Crooks rooks Hurst said to him Jack Crooks the only thing that keeps me from calling you a bare barefaced barefaced are faced liar Is what cried Jack belligerently Is la because beca you have whiskers sw sweetly replied Mr Hurst as he shoved tho the straw stran further down In his glass gla s