Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-10
FOOT BALL STARS
GOOD BALL PLAYERS

The reason Manager Clark GRIMM vi the
New York Americans has hankerine az
ter Doc" Hillebrand, the balky princeton
athlete. who has steadfastly refused 'o
ioin the washingtons. came to llght oufihs
the recent meeting of the Johhsohi'es q"
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, says the CieVeiaho
LEADER IT has been currently reported
that ''Griff'' refused to waive claim TO MS
services because he considered by so doing
he would have better chance to get case
Patten from Joe Cantillon. but such is not
the case. A certain judge of base ball ma
terial was urging the little leader to keep
his eve on a college curver. Does he play
foot ball?" oueried Griff NO. said the
scout. Then don't think / care TO watch
him." returned Griff, for II get any
more college men l am going after the man
with a. reputation on the gridiron as we'll
as on the diamond
Christy Mathewson. who brought a
worlds championship to New YORK played
fullback when he was at Bucknell.
Jake Stahl of Washington and Carl Lund-
gren of Chicago played, respectively at
tackle and behind the line for four years at
the University of Illinois. Arthur DeVFn
of the Giants, when at Georgetown, was
reckoned the best halfback in the south,
and Ralph Glaze of the Boston Americans
while at Dartmouth, was picked by Walter
Camp as an all-America end in 1903. Biz
mingham one of Cleveland's new players,
was quarterback at Cornell not many
years since and Dutch" Meier, who is on
Pittsburg's reserve list, played the same
position on the Princeton eleven for three
seasons. Birmingham Is an accomplished
drop kicker; Meier is not.
Fultz Was Star Player.
Oryau Overall of the Cubs, who did
some good relief work in the worlds series
last fall. played fullback on the University
of California, and Branch" Hickey and
Lefty" McIlveen were grdiron heroes at
Ohio Wesleyan and Pennsylvania State.
The former was picked by Grl,nth in pref
erence to Spencer in the recent trade with
St Louis by which Joe Yeager goes west
while Comiskey is willing to give the latter
a trial in case Barney Dreyfuss does not
want him And then there was Davy
Fultz who helped the Athletics win one
flag and was big factor in the Highland
,rs' capture of second place in 1904. To
this day some folks believe that IL Dave
had been playing In the final series with
Boston, instead OF Anderson, the pennant
race would have resulted differently. Dave
was a halfback at Brown. .'Rube" Wad-
dell Fred Parent and Ed Abbaticchio can
all do tidy stunts foot ballists, though
none of the trio ever played on college
elevens. Abby" starred at tackle on the
I.atrobe, Pa, Pros for years and had sew
sral ribs smashed in following this sport.
The number of men from the univer-
stiles who have played foot ball and then
failed TO travel at the requisite speed when
they reached the big league is not large
Iibe Washburn, the old Brown halfback,
wds doing well with the New York Ma
tionals in 1892. when Vic Willis hit him
on the head with wildly pitched ball. and
that crack put him out OF fast company
PittsbuTg got stung when Fred Crolius, the
Dartmouth fullbaCk, and Daft Gam
mons. the Brown half. We're tried ant
Standard the Holy Cross halfback, also
proved frost with the Pirates. Blu
Standard was a swattiBg hero in the Con
neCticut League last year and may be bacl
III fast company again. Roy, farmed b!
philadelphia To Newark, and Jude, turned
over for development by Cincinnati to Co
Iumbus were fleet ends at Carlisle. an,
probably will get further opportunities Il
show in the ma jors.
Hillebrand Was Wonder.
OF all the men who have played foo
ball and had major league aspirations non
could hold candle TO Hillebrand, tn
much wanted. lie made the foot ball an
base ball teams in each of the four year
he was a resident at the Jersey instltut
of learning. On the diamond he wo
thirty eight and lost ten games, three @
his reverses being at the hands of Ma
tiona! League teams HiIlebrand ha
less he got in right.
IIilebTand is now at Waubay. s. D.. an
as a feeler Joe Cantillon ordered him TO re
port at Chicago on March to join the Ma
tionals.