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Show UNKIND FINESSE IS PULLED BY FOURNIER George Capron, One-Time Star Footballer, Is Victim. Cardinals' Crack First Baseman Engineered En-gineered Clever Little Trick en . Seattle Player In Old Northwestern North-western Contest. Jack Fournler, hard-hitting first baseman of .the St Louis Cardinals, always laughs when he recalls a certain cer-tain game staged In the old North western league. Jack was with the Portland club at the time, and Seattle hud a . young star named George Cap-ron. Cap-ron. This was the same Capron who earlier In his career had been a marvelous mar-velous drop-klrker at Minnesota and was a brother of the speedy Ralph,' who was with the Pirates a brief tlmej Later on George became coach of th.j crack Long Beach (Cal.) High school football team. A Seattle man reached first base, where Fournler was playing, and Capron Cap-ron came to bat. He hit a sharp grounder at the Portland shortstop, who made the attempt to second for the forceout. The ball was relayed to Fournler for an attempted double play, but reached Jack after Capron had crossed the bag. Capron made his usual turn, and as he started to retnrn to first, observed VtS ;d? A Ay wdCK Fournier. Fournler had tossed the ball up and down In his glove. "Can you beat that?" said Fournler, "The umpire culled you out. Capron lost his temper. "Well, HI be hanged," he snapped, and started for second to argue the matter out with the umpire. Fournler hustled right after him, but Capron was going so fast Jack didn't catch him till he was near second. Then he tngged the amazed Capron with the ball. The umpire threw back his right hand. "You're out," he thundered. "Was Capron madT I'll tell the world," snltl Fournler. j |
