Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-07-21 | Page 24 | M'gann is Out

M'GANN IS OUT. X-Rays Discover Broken Bone in Eight Wing of First Baseman, Special to Tho Tribune. NEW YORK, July 20. Many weeks will elapse beforo Dan McGann. field cap-lain cap-lain of IhpGlantB, will again don a baseball base-ball unifoWn, and tho end of the season may como beforo he Is able to hurl a ball across tho diamond or clutch a bat firmly enough to mako a swing hurt. After waiting patiently for three weeks for his arm to round Into shape and undergoing un-dergoing various treatments, the stubborn whip was put under the X-ray and tho hospital surgeons found that the bone was broken, and tho wholo affair hnd to bo slapped into a plaster cast to watt for further orders. In the main bono of tho forearm a longitudinal break was discovered, dis-covered, and tho Bpllt bono will have to knit together securely before McGann can again take his Job at first. Tho docLors explained that a longitudinal break is ono that runs lengthwise of tho bone Instead In-stead of crosswise, as Is usual In such cases. For that reason they aro very hard to discover, and but for the X-raj Big Dan might have been still walling for the soreness to got out of his wing. This news came as a deep disappointment disappoint-ment to tho other members of tho team, who want tho captain back In the game. McGann was hit on the arm by a pitched ball thrown by Coakloy In Cincinnati tho same inning that Brcsnahnn was knocked out.