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Show WAS NOTED CATCHER Took Balls Off Bat Without Mask When Sport Was Young. ! BROOKLYN, Dec. 12. George An-ber Wilson, who in his time was the hero of thousands of old-time Brooklyn baseball 1'ana, died this iveek in the Kui3 County hospital from Bright 's disease. Ho weut to the hospital from i S7S Myrtle avenue, where he had a furnished room with a Mrs. Blake. Wilson's wife, Mrs. Iolores Pieaso Wilson, who lives at Saranae Lake, was iuformcd of his death, and came to Brooklyn for the funeral. Wilson was widely known in the days when professional baseball just started in Brooklyn as "Tug" Wilson, and he was one of the first catchers on the Brooklyn team when it was owned by the late Charles Byrnes, and the game was played on Fifth avenue. He was a daring catcher and took the ball close up to the bat without the mask, and with a clevorness that won him many a round of well-earned applause. ap-plause. After he left the Brooklyn team Wilson went to New York, where he plaj-ed on the old Metropolitan team and later was with several minor league teamB outside the big leagues. In the latter part of his life he had been connected with a Manhattan tea company and sold teas on the road. George A. Wilson came of a food family and was born in old Williams-bur;rh, Williams-bur;rh, where he at one time played on the Eckford team. He was 51 vears old and the son of tho late John iheo-dore iheo-dore Wilson. His mother, Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Van Winkle Wilson, is still Hying at the age of 92 years. Besides his widow and mother hu leaves a brother, Othniel Taylor Wilson, and four sisters. |