The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-10

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Dick Garvin, the ex-Yale baseball
player on board the transport, is thus
described by the San Francisco Bulle-
tin:
Few soldiers in the United States
army have gone into the service with
the recommendations of a United
States Senator as crack baseball
player and a pitching record earned in
college days as a vehicle in which TO
escape the monotonous routine of the
service. One such private soldier,
however is now in camp at the Pre-
sidio, en- route to the Philippines with
his regiment the Twentieth Infantry,
which arrived here from Columbus
Barracks, Ohio, on Wednesday.
Private Richard Garvin-"Dick'
Garvin, as he is Familiarity called by
the baseball fans of the East and his
college chums of other days-did not
enlist in the army last month because
he loved brass buttons or the trappings
of war, but because he wanted base
ball experience in new and remote
field. Garvin was assigned this year
by 'Mugsy" McGraw, manager of the
New York Nationals, to pitch next sea-
son for the Giants, but he had already
signed to perform the same service
for three other teams-and that is one
reason why he is now going to the
Philippine Islands to instruct the ma
tives in the mysteries of the great ma
tional game. For Garvin has been
blacklisted by the baseball magnates
of this country and if he stayed in the
United States his only profs sional
opening would be in the CALIFORNIA
League, and he might not catch on
here.
PRIVATE GARvIN'S CAREER.
"Dick" Garvin practically began his
baseball career in 1898. His home is
in Philadelphia, where he was stu
dent in that year at Eastburn Acad-
envy, and where he has a sister mar
ried to G. L. Summers, the millionaire
grocer. Early in the season of 1895
Garvin went to pitch for Atlantic City,
an all-college team-albeit Garvin re-
| ceived a fat salary.
In 1899 Garvin was given four years
scholarship to pitch for Yale. He
| twirled for old Ely most successfully
too successfully in fact, and that
was his undoing here. AT the close OF
| the year Harvard discovered that Gar
vim had been paid to pitch for Atlantic
| City and a protest'was lodged against
| him. Garvin was disqualified and
| had to give up his scholarship The
| next year, 1900, he went to Sager, Pa.
and pitched for "a emi-professional
club, making brilliant record. return
| ing to Atlantic City toward the close
| of the season In 1901 he was taken
in the camp of the Norfolk team OF
the Southern League and there made
| his first big hit in fast company. Hugh
| Duffy's Milwaukee team of the West
| ern League was his next field of opera
| ton. This was in the spring of 1902
He was so good that Duffy signed hin
for 1903. At the opening of the season
this year Garvin pitched eleven games
in four weeks and won ten of them and
| then jumped his contract. Meanwhile
| he had signed with Duffy TO pitch II
the Philadelphia National team.
| SENATOR QUAY'S LETTER.
| Backed by a letter from Senate
Matthew Quay, the political boss o
Pennsylvania, Garvin entered tn
United States army under auspiciou
circumstances. He enlisted at Phila
Columbus Barracks and assigned t