Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-28 | Page 2 | Another Baseball Product of Ohio River Bottoms

B , ' ANOTHER BASEBALL PRODUCT OF OHIO RIVER BOTTOMS. ' I - - r $. ' ij ' f v 'w5 ' i H 1 .- ' " Us WL-i'S wM If H II RIB "tc ...i" if I telf KS H Cincinnati, 0., Jan. 2S The famous Ohio River bottoms around H ( Jiere promise to plant another star in the baseball firmament. These j Jittle mud flat diamonds by the river-side have already produced j some of the greatest stars ofthe game. Lee Magee, late Federal star, H ; and recently purchased by the Nw York Yankees ; Otis Crandall of i the St. Louis Browns, Red Dooin, former manager of the Phillies and H now with the New York Giants, and Miller Iluggins, manager of the H St. Louis Cardinals, are all graduates oC the bottoms. H m The latest product is Frank A. Kohlbecker, who Avas playing l -with semi-professional teams in Southern Ohio for the last three h years. ana wno Jias .lust been signed to play with the Norfolk team 1 of the Virginia League. j Kohlbecker is 19 years old, weighs 175 pounds and is five feet 1 eleven inches m height. 'He bats and throws right-handed and last m year hit for an average of about .300 Norfolk will probably use m him behind the bat as his training so far has been in the line of H catching. H i . ,