"James Jerpe, the sporting writer of Pittsburg [sic] who has been blind for the two past years but continues his good work in the game in spite of that affliction, may be tendered a benefit game. is working it up. His plan is for a team of National League stars to meet a team of American League stars, the receipts of the game to go to Jerpe. It is some test of the popularity of a writer when ball players will turn a hand for him."
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"Sports Snap Shots," The Hutchinson News (June 5, 1916), p. 3
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James Jerpe
1885 – 1917
(1885 – January 16, 1917) was an American sports writer and columnist, writing for The Pittsburgh Dispatch, ' and ' from 1909 until 1916.
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