The sun., 1905-12-31
ATHLETES IN POLITICS.
Connecticut Adds to Her List Another
BASEBALL Sian al 9 Mayer.

MERIpEE, Conn, Dec. 29.-The election
Of Tom Reilly the well known baseball
man, as Mayor OF this city adds another
to the list Of promoters Of athletics who
have been getting the political plums in
Connecticut. Willimantio took the lead
this year by putting in an Mayor Daniel
Patrick Dunn, known to the followers Of
baseball in Conpecticut az Danny Dunn.
He was for ten 4,ears the manager OF the
Willimantic team. Mayor Reilly has
managed teams in Merden, Jersey City.
Hartford and various other places and
has been a sporting editor between times.
United States Senator Bulkeley was
the first prominent Connecticut man to
combine politics and sport. Senator
BuHkeley was president Of the Natlona |
Baseball League in 1879. and was then also
in politics, For years he was on the board
Of review Of the National Trotting Asso-
citation.
Another prominent athlete of the State
to get into politics is T. Kent Hubbard
of Mddletown. who three or four years
ago was nominated for Lieutenant Gov
rnor by the Connecticut Democrats Mr..
Hubbard is Trinity College aumnus,
and was prominent in his college days as
a baseball and football player. Since his
graduation he has been chairman Of the
has also been large exhibitor at horse
and dog shows
Everett j. Lake, who was on Cumnock's
eleven at Harvard. was in the Senate last
winter as representative from Hartford,
and he has held several political Jobs since
leaving Cambridge. Councilman William
II. Corbin Of Hartford was known to Yale
men as "Pa" Corbin when in his college
days he played on the va e eleven
Perry r., W. Hale, another famous Yale
football player, Is not without political
honors in his native city Of Middletown
where he is Water Commissioner Ii. o.
Bowers, judge Of the town court in Man
chester. was baseball hero at Yale. Park
Commissioner Lucius +. Robinson of Hart
ford was a football player at Yale, and
Pitcher John s. GaTVan Of the Yale nine
went from his studies to sealing weights
and measures rs public appointee in
Hartford.
Among the Wesleyan athletes in the
political swim is Jordan c. Wells, now in
charge Of the Hartford office of the State
Free Employment Bureau. Clerk Edwards
OF the police court was another Wesleyan
football giant. E1-Mayor Alexander Har-
bison of Hartford was for many years the
starting judge at Charter Oak Park and eX-
Mayor l.. A Sullivan was an amateur base
ball player.
The vice commodore Of the Hartford
Yacht Club is Councilman Charles A. Good
win, and eN-Police Comm. ys0ner William
b. Davidson is one of the trustees of the
organization. Among the leading bowlers
OF the State are Alderman Warren I. Bart
lett, Superintendent of Parks Theodore
Wirth and Councilman George f., Cox, all
Of Hartford.
ExjGov. George P. Mclean is a leading
member of the Pennington Valley Horse
and Hound Association, and John c. Long,
the all round athlete has been running for
councilman in Hartford.
DR.. j. H, Naylor, former clerk of the
Health Board. was baseball pitcher in
college Harry Durant. one of the new
proprietors of the Waterbury Baseball
Club, was assistant clerk in the last House
of Representatives