Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-26

Youngsters With Brains More
Than Make Good in Profess
SionaI Base Ball.

In recent years the major and minor base
ball leagues have been drawing many play
ers from the college teams. Ten years ago
there were hardly dozen college men
playing professional base ball, and those
who did were considered more less So
cfal outcasts. Since that time, however
sentiment has changed wonderfully and
now an ever-increasing stream of college
ball players is flowing into the leagues.
This has benefited the game materially
as it has tended to raise the moral stand
ard, and the sport today is on a higher
plane than it has ever been before.
In both the American and Naional leagues
college men have made good and all
managers are anxious to secure Them for
as a rule. they stick to training rules bet
ter. play more conscientious ball. dissipate
less, easier to handle. and in many
other ways are more desirable.
Christy Mathewson. perhaps the best
pitcher that the game has known. WIS a
foot ball and base ball star at Bucknell
College. 1t was due largely to his mighty
arm and individual brilliancy that the
Giants disposed of the Philadelphia Ath-
letlcs two years ago and won the cham
pionship OF the world. Doc White was the
man that played an important part in de-
featinS the Chicago National League team
in the worlds championship series last Oc-
tober He is graduate of Georgetown
was brilliant pitcher.
Plank of Gettysburg.
Plank one of the best pitchers in the
American League, is another college player
who has reached the top rank in profess
sional ball playing. In college days he
twirled for Gettysburg. Devln the Giants
infieider and heavy hitter. came from
Georgetown. Garrison, who won many
notify contested game for Harvard, is on
the pitching staff of the New York Ameri-
can League team. Donln, the heavy hit
ting outfelder of the Giants. played on the
University of Pennsylvania nine as did
Roy Thomas and Caldwell who are now
playing with the Philadelphia Nationals
Lewis of the Brooklyn National League
team Is another college man. Chase Of
Clarke Grimths Yankees Is a former Co
lumbia University ball tosser, while
'Hughey" Jennings. in his day the great
est shortstop that ever played the game, is
a graduate of the Cornell law school
These are only a few of the many college
men who have made brilliant reputation
on the diamond and command fancy sala-
rfes for their work They mentioned to
show how well the college ball player meas
ures up on the professional diamond in the
fastest company.
Statistics show that a larger percentage
of college players make a success of pro-
fessional ball playing than men from other
fields who go to fill the different leagues
There are now over two hundred collegians
probably three times that number play in
the minor leagues that are scattered
throughout the country. The number is
steadily increasing, and if the popularity of
the game itself does not decrease 1t is not
saying too much to predict that within the
next fifteen years three-quarters of the pro-
fessional ball players will be ex-colegians.
Interesting List.
1t is impossible to give the entire list Of
college players that are now in the different
leagues, but the following list includes the
most noted and successful with the col
leges at which they used to play:
Tenney. Brown University. now with Bos-
ton; Futz Brown. now with Philadelphia;
Lynch. Brown, now with Pittsburg; Pattee,
Brown, now with Jersey City: Lauder,
Brown, formerly with New York and Phila-
delphia: "Christy' Mathewson. Bucknell
University, now with the New York Ma
tional League team; Devlin, Georgetown
University, with the Giants; White,
Georgetown, now with the Chicago Ameri-
can League team; Drill, Georgetown, for
now with the Chicago American League
team; Harley, Georgetown, now with To-
ronto: Roy Thomas, Pennsylvania, now
with Philadelphia: Donlin, Pennsylvania,
vania. now with Philadelphia: Davis,
Gerard College: Powers. Holy Cross; Hen
ley, University of Alabama. now with Phila-
delphia: Plank. Gettysburg College, now
now with the Philadelphia Athletics: Wills.
University of Virginia, formerly with Bos-
ton and Louisville; Mick" Carter, Vir-
ginia, now with Washington: Graham. Vir
ginia. last season with Winchester; Glaze.
Dartmouth; Thomas, Carlisle Indians. now
with Philadelphia; Roy, Carlisle Indians,
now with Philadelphia; Holt, North Caro-
lima. formerly with Augusta: Giles. North
Carolina, formerly with Augusta; Jennings.
Cornell. formerly with Baltimore; Atkins.
Johns Hopkins, now with Baltimore; Wal
ter Clarkson, Harvard now with the New
York American League team; Hillebrand,
Princeton, now with Pittsburg; Tot Muir
ply, Yale, formerly with New York; Chase,
Columbia, now with the New York Ameri-
can League team; Lewis, Georgetown now
with the New York American League team;
Lundgren. University of Illinois, now with
Chicago: Barry. University of Rochester.
now with st. Louis; Winter, Gettysburg
College, now with Boston.
Bender of the Carlisle Indians: Rhuel-
bach, the Chicago National League pitcher;
Beaumont, Pittsburg; Cannell. formerly of
the Boston Nationals: Gibson Of the Boston
Americans: Mullen of Detroit and Overall
the Chicago pitcher, are also old college
players.
Refused to Play.
Among the famous college ball players
that would, in all probability, have been
stars in professional ball had they gone
into it are the famous Yale battery
Dutch Carter and Jack Greenway; the
University of Virginia pitchers, Summers
gill; Adams and Pollard; the Princeton
twirler, Bryan, and Sitton of the Univer-
sity of North Carolina.
Manager Mack of the Philadelphia Ath-
letics has a hobby for signing young col
lege players and he says he has never had
the slightest bit of trouble with any Of
them. Jennings. for several years manager
of the Baltimore Eastern League team, is
another manager who likes to try out ex-
collegians
The college man has gone into base ball
to stay, and the game Is already the better
for him. and will continue to improve be-
cause of the increasing numbers on pro-
fessonal teams. Georgetown, Brown and
the University of Pennsylvania the
three leading eastern colleges from which
the leagues draw their material, but Yale
and Princeton are creeping up.