The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-02
HAS MADE GREAT
RECORD At YALE
'Fid" Jackson, Who Learned
Baseball in Richmond, now
A College Hero.
VERSATILE ATHLETE
AS PITCHER, FIRST BAsEMAN
AND GOOD BATsMAN JACKSON
HAS HELPED YALE TO MANY
VICTORIES.

The Indianapolis Star yesterday
said:
Fielding Vaughan Jackson, the
Richmond. Und.,) boy who proved to
be a wonderfully successful pitcher
on the Yale varsity nine last season,
has proven that he is one of the most
versatile of college players by play
ing game at first base for Yale this
year. In the deciding contest with
Harvard last Tuesday his stick was
| the big factor in the Yale victory.
He got three of his teams eight hits
Throughout the season he has been
fielding and hitting in excellent
style. An injury to his arm prevent
ed us pitching again this year, but
he proved just as valuable to his
team as an infielder. 1t will be re-
membered that last season, while
pitching he defeated Harvard by a
timely hit in the last stages of the
game.
jackson learned to play baseball
on the town lots at Richmond, and he
also acquired there physique that
made him, with comparatively little
training good football player. He
learned the rudiments of the latter
game at Exeter and had no difficulty
in making the Yale team. His cOur-
age and GOODNESS while on the playing
field are said by his admirers at Yale
to be the factors in his makeup that
made him a powerful member af any
team.
jackson Good Sportsman.
jackson is only 81 years old ana
is declared by those acquainted with
present undergraduate life at Yale to
be one of the best sportsmen in the
school, He is a charitable winner
and a good loser. He never loses his
head in any game, no matter how in
ense the situation may be, and that
is largely what made him a winning
pitcher and great pinch hitter.
When only 10 years old young
| Jackson let the baseball microbe
sink deep into his anatomy. 1t will
| never be removed unless "Old Age
turns an X-ray on him and destroys
| it. Spending nearly all his four years
of prep work at Exeter-save a
| short time spent at the Episcopal
High School at Alexandria,, a.,-Jack
son made his name one that the alum
nj of Exeter honor.
fO, M ir,,n
ed him to try for the football eleven
He made it and showed wonderful
strength and 'intuitive football sense.
But the latter did not save him from
an injury that might have kept q
youth of less physical strength out OF
athletics for the remainder of his life
He played baseball too at Exeter and
did we'll Yale appealed to Jackson
He liked the stoicism that her athle
| ties possessed He believed in hel
discipline and longed for the day he
could walk from New Haven a Yale
grad"
| Makes Freshman Team.
Scarcely had he been at New Hav
en- a week before he made the fresh
man football team. Throwing him
self into the practice work on the
gridiron he became central figure
in the hard scrimmage between the
varsity and the 'chopping block ele
ven. 1t was labor of love with hin
to be a scrub. 1t was for Yale that
he left his cuiticle along the gridiron
But the less strenuous work of the
diamond also appealed to him. Here
too, Yale found an admirable candi
date for high honors. He pitched Sc
we'll that the coveted "Y" was his
But sickness, a sort of malaria, over
took him. and for one season Yale
was without his services in the big
diamond encounters"