Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-17

his mental capacity would increase in
proportion. In the end he became won
derfuily developed lad and was a living
example of what exercise will do for
boy, or, for that matter. a man.
During this time he went to school and
soon was able to join the games of the
other boys. In the high school and i'm
the preparatory college he went in for
athletics, and by the time he entered
Lowell even he laughed when anybody
recalled the fact that seven or eight
years before the doctors had given him
up to an early death from heart trouble.
1t has been necessary to give this
much of the details of this part of his
life in order to show what il meant to
Hartman to become the greatest pitcher
who had ever been i'm the box for any
college in the country. and also to give
the boys who read this good reason for
| his great interest in college athletics
after he had gone into business and be-
come wealthy. as shown by the scholar
ship prizes which he gave each year to
the best athletes in the various colleges
| of the country.
A Jerry Hartman scholarship meant
| free tuition and $500 year for living
| expenses at any college in the country
| selected by the winner for the complete
! college course. Mr.. Hartman was lib
/ eral i'm the number of scholarship prizes
offered. Several fellows. generally poor
| boys, were presented each year with a
| complete college education. There was
1
bail player. for basket ball, for hockey
| and each of the track and field events
The scholarships were awarded by the
| intercollegiate Athletic Association, and
We're given without restriction to the one
| chosen by the association except that a
nominees college had to submit TO Mr.
Hartman a record of the prize winners
standing in his duties. In this particular
a good average standing was required. 1t
| was the argument OF Mr.. Hartman that
the pursuit Of athletics in college need
NOT interfere with a fellows studies and
that II you give boy well developed
body his brain will get the benefit of it !
and with an average record as student
any boy might be expected to make his
way in the world.
Now base ball was the game which
Jerry Hartman liked above all others.
He liked best to see it PLAYED and to
make up his list Of scholarship prizes he
gave the base ball fellows the best Of
1t. He was then and still is real fan"
He loved to see new stars developed on
the diamond.
He thought it was the best and squar-
est game in the world and he wanted his
boys, as he called all college boys, to
love and play the game Therefore, he
had always offered four scholarships In
base ball. one for the leading pitcher. one
for the leading in1eder, one for the
leading outfielder and batter and one
for the best all-round infielder and bats
man.
Naturally, having been the base ball
champions for so long, the Lowell nine
generally got most of these scholarship
prizes. and it was. very pleasing to Mr..
Hartman to see his old college. secure SO
many of them. > II
The talk about the university wher-
ever the students gathered often came
around to these scholarship prizes es-
peciallS as the time for base ball ap-
preached.
Fellows Ike Jenkins. I.arke, Everson
and others of the old fellows. some OF
whom had won them in years past.
would bring up the subject when they
noticed any of the young freshmen
around. just to get them to thinking
about it. and good many youngsters in
the past had developed an ambition to
try for scholarship. and some of them
to win one. just from hearing those older
fellows talk. and g enerally these talks
would turn from a discussion OF the rec
ords of winners Of the prizes to the most
thrilling performance of the individual
stars
The day OF the first meeting in the
cage called by Hushie to give him a
chance TO look over the candidates for
the team was the first time that Case
and Hagner had been present at one of
these talks.
Hughie had given general talk about
the game. and had talked with each Of
The candidates. asking various questions.
such as What position do YOU playo"
can you bait? Can YOU ptch?" etc.
After they had all thrown the bail
around for an hour. just playing catch
so that Hughie could notice the way the
different fellows threw and swung they
all sat around gossiping With one another
NOBODY wanting 10 gb home. when one
of the older fellows would say something
about the scholarship prizes
Generally there was some one present
who did not know the details and this
ctS2red a chance to tell all about the
prizes.
In this case it was Hagner. who had
been at school only a few weeks and
all he knew about the prizes was what
Case had been able to tell him After
EversOn had finished explaining the prizes
fully the talk, as usual, drifted on to the
wonderful records of the priZe winners
of the past Not that sensational catches
or such other stunts as unassisted triple |
plays would in themselves secure one of
the prizes. f.Athey would not
Only the offfVl al scorers records show !
ing the standing of the candidates were
considered. but it was generally the fell
low who had the best record for any
given position who got the chance to
pull off the thrilling plays, because only
things
When the talk turned to feeders who
had been famous on some OF the old
Lowell teams. ii wasn't long before they
were telling stories about great catches
made by some of the fielders on cham
pionship teams of years gone by.
On such occasions Fred Larke never
forgot to tell about that great catch made |
by Jimmy Ryan. how he in one game
jumped clear over the fence in right field. |
which separated the beachers from the
playing field. and caught a fly ball while
falling into the crowd.
Johnny Everson then had to tell his |
story of Hughie Jenkins greatest catch
when he was playing short in one of the |
Baltimore college games. There was an
enormous crowd out. The stands wouldn't |
hold them all, they were let out on
the field, and there were so many that