Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-20

How Some Of Them Got Their Living A.
Amateurs.

How Some Of Them Got Their Living A.
Amateurs.
1t is too bad, says the Boston Herald that
there should be 80 much talk about profession
alism in connection with certain college base
ball players again this season.
There was not the least doubt last year that
one college nine that showed up very strong
owed this strength in a very large degree to
the presence of two men who we're nothing
more or less than professionals, as their room
expenses were not paid by themselves. The
president of the university referred to, a. we'll
as one Of the professors, maintained most
stoutly that there was nothing to the matter.
Possibly they may not have been acquainted
with the facts, but the men referred to received
emolument or gain directly or indirectly This
was confirmed by the statement of q ball player
who had gone through that college in a pre-
cisely similar way.
1t is a fact that another ball player in another
nine received $50 per week last summer for
attending soda fountain in a summer hotel
while he played on the local nine. Another
one received as munifcent a sum for clerking
at hotel. One player who was known to have
received money for playing ball in a college
nine last season has signed with full-fiedged
professional club, and probably the only rea-
son that he did not do so sooner was because
the college inducements were greater.
Trip of the Bostons.
Manager Selee has ordered the members
Of the Boston league team to report at Char
lottesville, Va, on March %. The climate at
that place is mild, and the grounds Of the Uni
versity of Virginia are located there. The
team will practice daily on the collegians
grounds and will play practice game with the
college nine every afternoon. Three match
games for the gate receipts will also take place.
The Boston team will remain there until April
q when a game with q local nine will be played
in Richmond. Capt Nash home.
While the Bostons are getting into shape at
Charlottesville, the New Yorks viii be doing
the same at Richmond. Manager Powers has
invited Manager Selee to meet his team in Rich
mond, and the invitation will undoubtedly be
accepted. The result OF this game will be
eagerly watched by the base ball enthusiasts
as it will show, to some extent, the relative
strength of the rival teams and the progress
made toward getting into shape for the cham
piOIship season.
On April and the Bostons will play with
the Yale nine at New Haven. and on Fast day
the iales will play on the Boston grounds.
There will be no games with Harvard this year.
The Harvard boys are unwilling to play SO
early in the season, and as the league season
will commence earlier than usual this season,
on account Of the larger number of clubs than
ever before, dates will be made with the
Cambridge athletes.
Haddock Training Williams College Boys.
The following is clipped from the Williams
College Weekly: George Haddock, who last
season pitched for the Boston Reds and recently
signed with the, Brooklyns, will arrive in Will
Jamestown on Monday and spend at least
week in training the men, Haddock, il will be
remembered, trained the battery candidates In