"Meerns" query

[Erin McKean]

Could it possibly be related to "Mijnheer(n)"?

This is just what sprang to mind; an uneducated guess, as it were.

Erin McKean
editor at verbatimmag.com


>     I have come across "Meerns" as a term of address in a 1913
>sports article but am unable to determine its exact meaning.  It
>does not seem to be listed in the dictionaries.
>
>     The word appears in the newspaper _San Francisco Bulletin_,
>March 11, 1913, p. 18, cols. 5-6, over the photograph of former
>baseball player Bill Lange. The relevant sentence is:
>
>'As Pop Anson would pause to remark, "I knew him when he was the
>equal of a bum baseball player they call Tyrus Raymond Cobb." Yes,
>Meerns, that was some years ago.'
>
>     Would anyone have any suggestions?
>
>---Gerald Cohen
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