E.R. Shirley—better known as “Mule”—once popularly known here as a member of the New Bern Bears, now much more popularly known as a member of Stan Harris’ world champion baseball club, is in the city over the week-end with friends.
It was a very happy thrill for those who know Shirley when the news “got out” that he was in town, and it was a scant number who were not on the lookout for an opportunity to greet their idol of the diamond.
Shirley came back to North Carolina the first of the week. Went first to Chapel Hill where a noisy welcome—which he himself spiked by slipping in unnoticed—awaited him; thence to Raleigh to see Carolina trounce State College; and finally to Snow Hill, once capital of Greene county, but now prefers to be known as “home town of ‘Mule’ Shirley.
Yesterday the urge of seeing old friends of the “Eastern Carolina League” days got the better of him, and Shirley motored over last night with Walter Debnam, editor of the Snow Hill paper.
From the front page of the Sunday morning New Bernian, Oct. 19, 1924
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn96086034/1924-10-19/ed-1/seq-1/#words=October+19%2C+1924
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