Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-19

Virginia boys have taken high rank in
every vocation throughout the country.
III scholarship, in business, and in the
athletic field. they have Won honors
worthly and worn them SO. A conspicu-
Gus example Of the Virginia athletes who
Fultz of Stanton. Va. the star outfeIder
of the Athletic Baseball team Of Phila-
delpha, champions of the American Base
Ball League. and of whom a cut is here
with printed.
Dave Fultz. as he is popularity known in
Virginia. is scholar as well as an
athlete, being a graduate Of Brown Uni
versty, of Providence r. T.. and is a man
of fine character. and exemplary habits
and one prominently connected. He
stands in the front rank Of baseball and
football players, and is equally prof.
cient in both sports.
Mr.. Futz. is a son of Hon. Alexander
II. FultZ, a well-known lawyer. ex-Con-
federate captain of artillery, and for a
number Of years Mayor of Staunton, and
was himself born and reared in the
:
% years old. Dave began his athletic
career at the Staunton Military Academy
ir his native town about 1892, being a,
member of both the baseball and foot
ball teams of the academy.
He entered Brown University in tho
autumn of 1894 and was graduated after
a foGr years course. During his entire
course there he played both games and
in his sophomore and junior years he cap
tanned the baseball team. and in the
senior year was captain of the football
eleven The team played all the great
elevens Of the country. including Yale.
Harvard Princeton, Carlisle Cornell, and
Pennsylvania. and in several instances
TIED these famous teams. and in every
case held them down to small scores.
Fine Football Record.
It was during the season of lS91-1S9S
that l1ultz won stellar football honors.
being classed by Caspar Whitney, the
athletic expert. who chronicled sports for
Harper's Weekly. as the best half-back
of the year, and given place on the
An-American eleven. Fultz plays the
game with all his powers of body and
mind. and is always in every play. He
mastered the fine points of both base
ball and football, and was thus enabled
to direct and lead his fellows.
In 1898 he coached the University Of
Missouri eleven; in 1899 helwas a member
of the crack Duquesne Athletic Club foot
ball team of Pittsnurg. which had an
unbeaten record. During the seasons of
19oO-l901 he captaned and coached the
Homestead Athletic eleven. of PittSburg,
a team which was never beaten. During
the present season Fultz is coaching the
Lafayette College football eleven, OF
Easton Pa and good account Of them
may be expected.
In Professional Baseball.
In baseball Fultz began his profess
sional career with the ,Staunton, Va)
team of 1894 and later played with the
Roanoke team OF the Virginia League.
holding down with equal facility infield
and outtield positions. and giving promise
then of a great future in baseball. He
was a crack sprinter, doing a hundred
wards in ten and half seconds or less,
an eager and enthusiastic fielder and a
Stl eng batter.
After leaving Brown University he join
ed the Philadelphia National League team
and remained with it as utility man du-
ring the sea son. The next season he went
to Baltimore to play VIA the team there,
and when that city was dropped by the
National League. he went to Milwaukee
in the American League. season of 1900.
When the American League invaded the
East in 1901 F'ultz came with it and be-
came q member Of the Philadelphla Ath-