DOC  J. G.  STRIEGAL

    He was perhaps the best football center Pottsville High ever had.
He played on the crack eleven of 1901 along with "Monk" Morris,
J. Stevenson, D. Morgan, B. King, F. Harris; B. Woodbury; Bob
Weaver and H. Becker.
     In basketball, he was even more proficient, playing at Hum-
mel's Hall, on the 1901-1902 Pottsville High team which still is
rated as the best quintet the Crimson and White ever had.  The
forwards were Bob Weaver and Billy Becker, John Striegal himself
was a center, Strohmeier, Becker and Transue, guards.
     Entering the University of Pennsylvania, the future Dr. Striegal
played on a crack Penn quintet.  He was an excellent guard, able
to tangle-up sharpshooting opponents by skillful use of his long
arms.  He was a good man on jump balls, too.
     After obtaining his degree from the great medical school of
the university, he practiced medicine in Pottsville.  He was on
the staff of Pottsville Hospital for many years, being noted as an
outstanding surgeon.
     In 1925 he obtained a franchise for Pottsville in the National
League and after the unpleasantness of the championship for-
feiture following the Four Horsemen game in Phila., succeeded in
retaining forfeiture of franchise, at the spring meeting of the
league, at Hotel Ben Franklin, Philadelphia.
     His 1926 team came close to repeating the 1925 performance,
losing by the close score of 9-7 to the Bears at Chicago, when
a victory would have meant first place.  In 1927 and 1928 the
team was somewhere in the middle of the 20 club league, which
then was not divided into Eastern and Western groups.
     In the last season here, he loaned operation of the club to
three of his players: Herb Stein, Pete Henry and Duke Osborn. 
     In 1929 he sold the franchise to the Boston Braves, and from
there the franchise was carried to Washington by George Preston
Marshall, where it still reposes.