“Chief” Meyers Feels
Training as Marine
Will Aid Batting Eye
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“Chief" Meyers, redoubtable catcher for the Giants and known to the neighboring farmers back home in Connecticut as J. T. Meyers, will be hitting them out on a skin diamond better than ever next season, since his summer’s training in the Marine Corps at Paris [sic] Island, S. C.
All summer long the big chief’s gnarled and broken hands toyed with a Springfield, and when he swung the bat in the bi-weekly baseball games on the sand diamond at the great Marine Corps Training Station, where there is no fence, the horsehide pellet generally soared well out into the sea.
Meyers says that his marine training has done wonders for him and that it has made him good for many more seasons behind the bat. He has a farm of 250 acres and a patriotic wife back in Connecticut, where he will continue his training as soon as he is discharged from the ranks of the soldiers of the sea.
New York Tribune, January 12, 1919.
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