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APPEAL FOR FOWLER, OLDTIME PLAYER The Veteran Colored Second Baseman, One of the Game's Pioneers, Is Ill and Destitute. The Sporting Life contains the fol- lowing: Brooklyn, N. Y., Rec. 17.-Editor Sporting Life: Will you kindly give me a few lines of your valuable space? I wish to call the attention of the large army of lovers of the national game, and especially the very many colored players in the country, to the condition of John F. ("Budd") Fowler, who is lying ill at the home of his sister r at Frankfort, N. Y. Fowler was one of the best colored ball players who ever wore a uniform. I was going to say whoever donned a mitt, but that would be a misnomer, for it is a wellknown fact that "Budd" never used a glove, preferring to take everything that came his way with the bare hands. He, with Fleet Walker, Frank Grant and George Stovy were the only colored ball players that ever got into the ranks of the big leagues and they created a sensation in the International league back in the eighties. A couple of decades a ago, when I was a newspaper reporter in Laconia, N. H., it was my pleasure to be associated with Fowler, he playing second base and I acting as official scorer r and assistant manager of the Laconia Baseball club, and I found him to be e one of the "whitest" men I ever knew. At that time the Laconia team was the crack semi-professional organization of the old Granite state a and numbered among its members, besides Fowler and myself, Silas Jones, George Walker, Tim Maloney, "Stick" Aldrich, Pat McCann, Jim Baldwin, Charles Fischer, John n Foley, Orman Lougee and Joe Sanborn. Some of these men were afterward identifled with the "big show," but none of them is playing ball today. Aldrich and Lougee are at the present time solid business men of Laconia. Now Fowler, who has been member of the best colored teams and a number of white teams, such as the Live Oaks, of Lynn; the Crickets, of Binghamton, and others, having been in harness for over thirty years, and never in all that time connected in any way with outlaw baseball, is in destitute circumstances and I appeal for a popular subscription beneft in his aid. Any sum of money, no matter how small, will be gratefully received by him. It is my intention, as early as possible, to arrange a benefit g game for him here on one of the local diamonds, and I earnestly ask the cooperation of the colored players, many of whom live around about New York and Brooklyn. They all knew me as "the newspaper feller," who covered Meyerrose park during the past season for the Brooklyn Eagle and the New York Press, and they can get in touch with me by addressing me in care of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. wish particularly to hear from Sol White, "Pop" Watkins, Clarence Williams, Frank Grant, Harry Buckner, Grant Johnson and Monroe, who were all personal friends of the old boy. A line from Ren Mulford, the Cincinnati scribe, who knew Fowler well, would be of inestimable value to this worthy cause. I hope that all the sporting editors in the country will see fit 1 to print this letter. Thanking you for your consideration, I am, most respectfully yours, F. D. Ellis, | a
Article from 19 Dec 1908The Tribune(Scranton, PA)
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