Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-09
COLLEGE PLAYERS
ARE STURDY BOYS
Old Professionals Are Nova
days BeWiIdered by the Rug
qedneSS and Nerve of the
Rah Rails.
BY w. A. Phelon.

In the mind of many base ball fans
there still fingers fixed and ineradica bile
belief that the college ball player added
to a professional club is an oddly and a
conspicuous proposition. If they read
Of college man signing with a big
league team. they expect to see wild
eyed youth with long, floating hair a
little cap set upon the extreme back of
his dome and Il bunch of educated
language bristlng with phrases too alb
strusely complicated for any one outside
of college TO understand.
This was correct, rerhaps--long ago.
Not nowadays. Nix. Play that one with
copper. The collegian who joins a
big league ball club in the present gen
GRAFTON isn't that kind of darling.
1t is said that Fred Tenney was the
first collegian who made both the pro-
fess.on players and the fans C mpre-
bend what an up-to-date varsity man
was really like. He did it with Il ven
geance, too. and the inimitable Dad
Clarke was the goat.
Tenney and Clarke.
Tenney had just joined the Boston
team. and Clarke was about TO pitch a
game against Selee's performers. Dad
had heard OF Tenney's signing. and de-
cided that he would scare the tender
mamma boy right off the lot. He
hunted for Tenney. appro ached him dur
ing practice. and remarked. with d ter
rible growl and savage glare: Say, YOU
college lobster. you cheap imitation
you four-flushing rah-rah. YOU Willie
boy from the oiogy class, what busine IS
have you got around here mixing up
with men?
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black struggling hair waving over a pair
of vicious eyes. Sizing Clarke up for a
minute. he began by squirting a torrent
OF tobacco juice all over Dads shoes.
Then turned loose Il flood of explosives
that curled Clarke up. leaving Inn in
q daZed and helpless mass. When Dad
came to he cried 10 Fred knowles
Say, that guy never went Ia no college.
That tough gazabo never even went to
night school.
The colcgian who breaks into the Dig
leagues is usually from the smaller co.,
ieges, the ierkwater places where the
students mix manual labor with their
trigonomctry Men who can AFFORD tnt,
pace of Yale Princeton or Harvard as
rule are too Well off to need Il baSe-
ball contract. and. on grtuua ,lnS. S, nl
right into business at their fathers OIL
fees There have been some em-nent
Yale and Harvard men in the DIG
leagues, but not many
The students from the little colleges,
rugged young fellows of tremendous
physique. take as naturally 10 ball
PLAYERS life as ducks to water IN a
wear or two they become amalgamated
with the great mass Of PLAYERS ia II,
wears il is impossible to distinguish the
collcgian by any sign OF speech OF nial'-
ner. and the only way many OF them
are ever identified as varsity men Is
when some old classmate chances to en-
counter them. Tire bis leagues contain
many collegians whose very SCHOOLS are
forgotten by ali save tiie men tn mem,
men ever printed has been correct Tor
this strange reason.
Many Good Ones.
Rov Thomas of Boston went to the
University of Pennsylvania: Coffey at
tended Fordham: Beaumont is from Be
lott College: Shean is from Il college now
apparentIy forgotten. and some OF the
other Beans are probably university men.
Of the Brooklyns, Mcmillan went to
some southern college. Marshall to a
medical school, McElveen TO some UNI
yersity i'm the south. Scanlon TO a medi-
cal college, and Wilhelm; almost 'wehlN
years ago. WAS the cfach Pi'tHo' vi an
Ohio school. ,
Overall OF the Cubs was foot ball
star at u California university: ReulDacli
pitched for Vermont and Notre Dame.
Chance went to some California college,
and Holman. Kane and STANLEY got pref
ty we'll along in the educational line.
Hureins of the Reds went to law
school. Dubuc to Notre Dame. and per-
haps some more of Griffith's men are
from the little colleges.
Tennev of the Giants came from Brown
Murray from Notre Dame, and McCor-
mick studied engineering at Pennsyl-
vania; Deviin studied at Georgetown:
Rridwell went To ii jerkwater college in
Ohio: SIlafer was in southern school
when he got base ball fever the great
Mathewsun is from Buckncn: Meyers