The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
ATHLETES WILL MAKE LAWS.
SPORTING STARS IN TIE NEXT
CONNECTICUT LEGISLATURE.

Former Football Giant NJ Harvard WIN
Preside Over the senate FuIIbaCk
ButterwOrth OF Yale There TOO
Other Legislators Famous in College.
HARTFORD, Conn. Dec. 22.-The largest
number OF baseball stars, football giants
and track athletes that ever gathered at
the Capitol viii be here esvIy in January.
when the Connecticut General Assembly
convenes this year. They are all members
OF the House OF Representatives or Of tho
State Senate.
The leader OF the sporting contingency,
which 1t Is prophesied will run things in
its own way this term, is Lieutenant-O Gov
ernor- elect Everett j. Lake OF this city,
the former Harvard football star, who
was a member of Cumnock's famed eleven.
He is a native of this State, having peer
bon in ROCKVILLE.
He is even bigger now than he was when
he scared the Yale players as he stalked
on the gridiron. In fact, he has changed so
much that when he made q recent visit
to Rockville, an old lady. hearing he was in
town, asked 10 % him pointed out
10 her. She explained that when he was
a ~youngster she had known him: When
some one said There goes Lake she ex-
claimed in astonishment: -Sakes alive, IL
can't be possible that hat is Martin Lakes
little boy Evviel"
Lieut.-Gov. AXE stands over six feet and
weighs more than 200 pounds.
He will preside over the deliberations
OF the Connecticut Senate, in which will
be seated an old football rival, Frank s.
B~utterworth Of Yale. Butterworth, who
will represent New Haven as a Senator.
was the greatest fullback that Yale ever
had and for several seasons has been one
Of the advisory coaches for the football
squad. He takes to law making naturally,
his father. Ben Butterworth, having rep
resented Ohio in Congress.
The most prominent athlete OF the Gen.
eral Assembly will be President Flavei s.
Luther OF Trinity College, a baseball en-
thusiast. He is especially interested in
the Trinity baseball team: He never
misses a college game and hardly a pro-
fessional one that is played hereabouts.
He will also be in the n as a repre-
sentative OF this city.
The leading all around athlete Of the law
makers will be Joseph b. Thomas Of Sims
bury, who represents that place in the
Legislature. He was captain Of the Yale
track team that went over to England
to compete with the English athletes. He
is a crack tennis player, a follower of the
hounds, a polo player and a breeder OF
horses and dogs.
His farm at Simsbury has become famou
among sportsmen everywhere as containing
the finest specimens Of Russian wolf hounds
ever brought 70 this country. Soon after
graduation from Yale he went to Russia,
where he secured from Grand Duke Nicholas
the largest and handsomest Russian wolf
hounds that could be purchased.
The gentleman farmer and sportsman
OF the General Assembly will be j W. Alsop,
the representative Of Avon this year. Mr..
Alsop, who is a great friend Of President
Roosevelt, has partly solved the abandoned
farm question in Connecticut by buying
up one of these estates and making Il bloom
so that it has attracted the attention of
agriculturists all over the country. He is
a polo player and while at Yale was one OF
the best athletes OF his class.