FORMER NORTHERN LEAGUER IS DEAD
Evening Times (Grand Forks, ND), October 9, 1911
The following dispatch will be of interest to the old baseball fans of the city and vicinity, who remember John C. Bender, formerly with the Fargo and Duluth teams of the Northern league. ... Bender played in the Northern league under the name of McCoy:
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 9 -- Word was received in this city this week that John C. Bender, a baseball player, who had made Charleston his home during the off seasons for the past five years, died suddenly of heart failure at Edmonton, Canada, recently.
"Chief" Bender, as he is better known to the fans of Charleston and the South Atlantic league cities, first made his debut in the Sally as [an] outfielder with the Sea Gulls of 1905, coming here from the Fargo, N. D. team of the Northern league. He also played in the outer garden of the Augusta and Columbia teams.
While a member of the latter team in 1908, Bender became involved in a difficulty with Manager Winn Clark aboard a Clyde Line ship while coming to Charleston from Jacksonville and slashed the Comer's [sic] manager with a knife, and for this he was blacklisted by the national commission. It was not until this season that the ban was raised from [his] head [,] and he immediately signed with the Charleston team under Ed. Ransick. Bender's layoff did not help his ball playing, and when Kohley Miller was made manager [,] he released [him], as he was too slow on bases and weak at the bat.
From Charleston, Bender drifted to Edmonton, where he had this season played outfield.
Bender is a brother of Charles Albert Bender, Connie Mack's pitcher. Both brothers first saw daylight at Brainerd, Minn., on the Chippewa reservation, and both are graduates of Carlisle. John Bender married a Charleston girl while a member of the Augusta team in 1907, and during the winter was engaged in the restaurant business. He will be buried in Charleston.
Bender was a popular player here, in spite of the trouble he had [,] and news of his death caused regret.
Evening Times (Grand Forks, ND), October 9, 1911
The following dispatch will be of interest to the old baseball fans of the city and vicinity, who remember John C. Bender, formerly with the Fargo and Duluth teams of the Northern league. ... Bender played in the Northern league under the name of McCoy:
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 9 -- Word was received in this city this week that John C. Bender, a baseball player, who had made Charleston his home during the off seasons for the past five years, died suddenly of heart failure at Edmonton, Canada, recently.
"Chief" Bender, as he is better known to the fans of Charleston and the South Atlantic league cities, first made his debut in the Sally as [an] outfielder with the Sea Gulls of 1905, coming here from the Fargo, N. D. team of the Northern league. He also played in the outer garden of the Augusta and Columbia teams.
While a member of the latter team in 1908, Bender became involved in a difficulty with Manager Winn Clark aboard a Clyde Line ship while coming to Charleston from Jacksonville and slashed the Comer's [sic] manager with a knife, and for this he was blacklisted by the national commission. It was not until this season that the ban was raised from [his] head [,] and he immediately signed with the Charleston team under Ed. Ransick. Bender's layoff did not help his ball playing, and when Kohley Miller was made manager [,] he released [him], as he was too slow on bases and weak at the bat.
From Charleston, Bender drifted to Edmonton, where he had this season played outfield.
Bender is a brother of Charles Albert Bender, Connie Mack's pitcher. Both brothers first saw daylight at Brainerd, Minn., on the Chippewa reservation, and both are graduates of Carlisle. John Bender married a Charleston girl while a member of the Augusta team in 1907, and during the winter was engaged in the restaurant business. He will be buried in Charleston.
Bender was a popular player here, in spite of the trouble he had [,] and news of his death caused regret.
FORMER NORTHERN LEAGUER IS DEAD
Evening Times (Grand Forks, ND), October 9, 1911
The following dispatch will be of interest to the old baseball fans of the city and vicinity, who remember John C. Bender, formerly with the Fargo and Duluth teams of the Northern league. ... Bender played in the Northern league under the name of McCoy:
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 9 -- Word was received in this city this week that John C. Bender, a baseball player, who had made Charleston his home during the off seasons for the past five years, died suddenly of heart failure at Edmonton, Canada, recently.
"Chief" Bender, as he is better known to the fans of Charleston and the South Atlantic league cities, first made his debut in the Sally as [an] outfielder with the Sea Gulls of 1905, coming here from the Fargo, N. D. team of the Northern league. He also played in the outer garden of the Augusta and Columbia teams.
While a member of the latter team in 1908, Bender became involved in a difficulty with Manager Winn Clark aboard a Clyde Line ship while coming to Charleston from Jacksonville and slashed the Comer's [sic] manager with a knife, and for this he was blacklisted by the national commission. It was not until this season that the ban was raised from [his] head [,] and he immediately signed with the Charleston team under Ed. Ransick. Bender's layoff did not help his ball playing, and when Kohley Miller was made manager [,] he released [him], as he was too slow on bases and weak at the bat.
From Charleston, Bender drifted to Edmonton, where he had this season played outfield.
Bender is a brother of Charles Albert Bender, Connie Mack's pitcher. Both brothers first saw daylight at Brainerd, Minn., on the Chippewa reservation, and both are graduates of Carlisle. John Bender married a Charleston girl while a member of the Augusta team in 1907, and during the winter was engaged in the restaurant business. He will be buried in Charleston.
Bender was a popular player here, in spite of the trouble he had [,] and news of his death caused regret.
Evening Times (Grand Forks, ND), October 9, 1911
The following dispatch will be of interest to the old baseball fans of the city and vicinity, who remember John C. Bender, formerly with the Fargo and Duluth teams of the Northern league. ... Bender played in the Northern league under the name of McCoy:
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 9 -- Word was received in this city this week that John C. Bender, a baseball player, who had made Charleston his home during the off seasons for the past five years, died suddenly of heart failure at Edmonton, Canada, recently.
"Chief" Bender, as he is better known to the fans of Charleston and the South Atlantic league cities, first made his debut in the Sally as [an] outfielder with the Sea Gulls of 1905, coming here from the Fargo, N. D. team of the Northern league. He also played in the outer garden of the Augusta and Columbia teams.
While a member of the latter team in 1908, Bender became involved in a difficulty with Manager Winn Clark aboard a Clyde Line ship while coming to Charleston from Jacksonville and slashed the Comer's [sic] manager with a knife, and for this he was blacklisted by the national commission. It was not until this season that the ban was raised from [his] head [,] and he immediately signed with the Charleston team under Ed. Ransick. Bender's layoff did not help his ball playing, and when Kohley Miller was made manager [,] he released [him], as he was too slow on bases and weak at the bat.
From Charleston, Bender drifted to Edmonton, where he had this season played outfield.
Bender is a brother of Charles Albert Bender, Connie Mack's pitcher. Both brothers first saw daylight at Brainerd, Minn., on the Chippewa reservation, and both are graduates of Carlisle. John Bender married a Charleston girl while a member of the Augusta team in 1907, and during the winter was engaged in the restaurant business. He will be buried in Charleston.
Bender was a popular player here, in spite of the trouble he had [,] and news of his death caused regret.
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