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Show RESENTED JIBES ON ATTIRE Jack Gilllgan Couldn't Stand to Have Other Players Make Fun of His New Shoes, Jack Gilllgan, a Des Moines pitcher once with the Browns, Is noted In baseball circles as a swell dresser. He Is fond of handsome ties, shirts and the like, and always looks as If he came directly out of a bandbox. If there's one thing he can't stand It Is to be guyed about any part of his attire, at-tire, especially If he thinks the ladders are in earnest. "Once Jack told us all about a pair of shoes he was to purchase," says Pitcher Paul Musser, formerly of the White Sox and now in the army. "He said they were corkers, and prepared" us for the sight. "A few days later he came Into the hotel wearing thosehoes. They were dandies, all right, Cost him $12, which was a big sum those days. But the boys started In on him at once. " 'What size did you say they were, Jack?' asked one. '"Eight and a half why?' " 'Oh, nothing; except they look like twelves on you.' "Gilllgan took it In earnest. You couldn't hire him to wear them after that. And he disposed of them for $2." |