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Show JONATHAN ZACHARY IS MINISTER'S SON Parents Objected to Baseball Base-ball and Had Him on. Verge of Quitting. Jonathan Thompson Zachary, who pitched two victories for Washington in the world's series, is the son of Alfred Zachary, a Quaker minister, who was the father of about thirteen children. There were five boys among the children, and all were baseball players. Thompson began playing baseball at Saxapabaw, N. C, a small cotton mill town on Haw river. His first real pitching feat was a 13-lnning no-hit game for the Saxapabaw team. The team was composed mostly of college players from Chapel Hill, Durham and other towns of the vicinity. Zachary's father first objected to him playing baseball. In fact, his father almost forced him to give up the game. Young Tom Zachary would often be playing ball for three hours, while his father would be preaching a three-hour three-hour sermon. Tom was a big, red-headed, freckle-faced freckle-faced kid, and was as left-handed as a kid could be. His father and mother are now living liv-ing and own a farm on Cane creek. Cane creek is famous for its battle in the Revolutionary war. Tom Zachary really received his first baseball education at Guilford college, N. ' C Hick Hobbs was coaching the team. Ernie Shore, another an-other great pitcher, also started out at Guilford. Zachary's father and mother are now old and feeble and Tom spends his vacation at home with them on the farm. He likes to hunt. |