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Show VI . . .. ISA . . . . PROMINENT BASEBALL PLAYERS POSSESS LITTLE FADS OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER j 10 1 w A A ) YA'.H" 1 I Many ball players have fads of one kind and another. A brief list might be instructive. Lena Blackburne, who has played shortstop on many teams, collects pennants pen-nants from the various cities he visits. Joe Benz has an account of every game he has ever pitched pasted away in a scrap book. Dutch Leonard has a passion for talking machines, and spends much of his spare cash purchasing records. Strong for Flowers. Eddie Collins is strong for flowers, flow-ers, and picks up a rose bush here and a new kind of plant there for his garden back in a suburb of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. A large number of players keep scrap books. Ed Walsh has a pile of them large enough to stock small library. Few players have had so many features written about them as Walsh has enjoyed, and many a day he filed from one to four pages In his book. Ed also picked up pictures of himself in action, nnd has fixed up a baseball den at his home in Meri-den, Meri-den, Conn., which Is said to be one of the finest of Its kind in the country Eddie Cicotte is another who keeps a scrap book. Ills fondest hope is seme clay to place an account of his no-hlt game in this volume. He has nearly everything else. While on the coast this spring we visited Jack Fournier, former Sox and Yankee, at his home in a Los Angeles hotel, writes Malcolm MacLean in Detroit De-troit Free Press. Jack Is one of the coast's star players and seems certain cer-tain to be back in the majors again before the vear is out. His room was hare of ornaments unless a wardrobe and trunk could lie considered such and the only objects ob-jects in sight were two scrap books on a table beside the water pitcher. Many of the clippings In his books refer to him as the Frenchman, which he collects with great delight. "You know," he confided, "I was born in Michigan." Had Great Time. "I had a great time when I played with Montreal," he continued. "The French afns took me to their hearts I actually beard one of them tell another an-other that I couldn't understand any English except a few words like 'ball,' 'strike,' and others used in playing the pastime. "And I didn't have to buy many dinners In Montreal, either. I had one or more invitations every night at one of the French homes, and I had one swell year of it. Many of them called me Jacques Flonyea, and I could often hear them yelling that nt me when I was at bat." Before closing we might state that the Angels have a hitt'ing trio (bat compares favorably with many of those in the majors Fournier bats third, Sam Crawford, former Tiger, Ti-ger, fourth, and then comes Rube Ellis, ex-Cardinal. |
