Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-08 | Page 12 | His Name a Hoodoo, jap Poor Has it Changed

HIS NAME A HOOD'00, JAP POOR HAS IT CHANGED HARTFORD CITY, Ind , May 7. Hoodooed by a name apparently un-sulted un-sulted for a good baseball player and handicapped by his erratic ball playing a Hartford City man has secured a new name and profitable position in the American association. Every baseball player and fan In Indiana In-diana and the Three-I league knows Jap Poor. He first achieved fame by his formation of the Indiana State league, and later the gas belt league. All his enterprises were promoted without with-out finance and were short lived. Never discouraged Jap Poor would lose no time in getting to another State, where he would attempt a similar enterprise, but always with the same result. The first snow flj' caught Jap with his. summer sum-mer togs, and he would find employment employ-ment then behind the bar, although an abstainer himself. At the first sign of spring Jap Poor, who was tending bar In this city, disappeared dis-appeared as mysteriously as he came. Later a letter was received from him stating that he was signed by the Louisville team. Today word was received re-ceived from him that he would play shortstop for cither the Kansas City or Louisville club under the name of John Wagoner. Manager Tebeau liked his work. Poor says that he believes the hoodoo has been broken by his change of name, and his Identity has been lost to the nemesis which pursued him relentlessly. re-lentlessly. Poor's Hartford City friends hope that "Johnny Wagoner" will make good, and believe that he will.