Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-22
COLLEGE MEN AS BALL STARS
Number Have Gone from School to
Big League Teams.
TENNY WAS NO MOLLY CODDLE
others Have Turned out 60 he
Leaders and Have Helped Win
Many Pennants--Overan
Foot Bali star.

Foot BaI star
NEW YORK. May 21.-College men have
played an important part in professional
base ball and many university players
have developed into stars as members Of
big league teams. II is said that Fred
Tenney Of the Giants was the first col
1egian who made both the professional
players and the fans comprehend what
an up-to-date varsity man was really
like. He did It with vengeance, too, and
he inimitabie Dad Clarke was the goat.
Penney 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 decided that he
would scare the tender mammals boy right
off the lot He hunted for Tenney, APP
preached him during practice and re-
marked with a terrible growl and saw
age glare: Say, you college lobster you
cheap imitation, you four-flushing rah-
rah, you Willie boy from the oiogy class,
what business have you got around here
mixing up with men?'
Tenney turned a fierce-eyed figure, with
black, struggling hair waving over a pair
OF vicious eyes. Sizing Clarke up for
few minutes, he began by squirting tor
rents of tobacco Juice all over Dads shoes.
Then he turned loose a flood OF explo-
sives that curled Clarke up, leaving him
in a dazed and helpless mass When
Dad came in he cried to Fred Knowies'
Say, that guy never went to conege'
That tough gazaboo never even went to
night school,"
The collegian who breaks into the big
leagues is usually from the smaller col
leges, the jerkwater laborer with their
trigonometry. Men who can afford the
pace of Yale. Princeton or Harvard, as a
rule, are too we'll off to need base pall
contract and on graduation step right into
business at their fathers offices There
have been some eminent Yale and Har-
ward men in the big league. but not many.
The students from the little colleges,
rugged young fellows Of tremendous ply
slouA, take as naturally to a ball players
life as ducks do to water. In year or
two they become amalgamated with the
great mass OF players. In five years
A. Is impossible to distinguish the collegian
nv any sign of speech or manner, as the
onlv way many of them are ever identi-
fled as varsity men is when an old class
mate chances to encounter them The
big leagues contain many collegians whose
very schools are forgotten by all save the
men themselves, and no list OF big league
college men ever printed has been correct
for this strange reason.
Tcnny from Brown.
Tenney came from Brown, Murray from
Notre Dame and Mccormick studied en-
cheering at Pennsylvania; Devlin studied
at Georgetown, Bridwell went to jerk
water college in Ohio, Shafer was In an
other, the great Mathewson is from Buck
nell. Meyers, the big Injun, went to Dart
mouth.
Roy Thomas of Boston went to the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania; Coffey, now with
indianapolis, attended Fordham; Beaumont
now with Chicago, is from Beloit college;
shean is from a college now apparently
forgotten, and some of the other Beans are
probably university men.
OF the Brooklyns. Mcmillan went to a
southern college, McElveen to some uni
versity in tho south. Scanlon to a medical
college and Wilhelm almost twenty years
ago was the crack pitcher OF an Ohio
school,
overall of the Cubs was foot ball star
at n California university Reulbach pitched
for Vermont and Notre Dame. Chance
went to a California college, and Hoffman,
Kane and Stanley got pretty well along In
the educational line.
IIuggins of the Reds went to law school,
Dubec 10 Nortre Dame, and perhaps some
more of Grifflth's men are from the little
college. Grant OF the Phillies is from Mar
tell, Catholic college, and Sparks Is from
a school in Alabama.
The champion Pirates. on the fact OF the
returns. seem shy OF college men, but II
ia quite probable that some OF them were
rah-rahs and have forgotten to announce
the fact.
stroke of the Cardinals is from Brown,
Barton is a pitcher from Case Technical.
Beebe is from the University Of Illinois.
Heitmuller of the Athletics is from Call
fornla school, Collins is from Columbia
Davis Is from Girard college, Philadelphia;
Barry is a Holy Cross man, Plank halls
from Gettysburg college, Coombs from Col
gate. ana Bender the Indian. from Carlisle
Stahl Of the Boston Red Sox is from IL
lino.s university, Hooper got civil en-
cheering degree upon the coast, Hahn OF
the White sox went to some tiny school
Of Ohio or Tennessee, Reilly is Yale
man. white Is from Georgetown, Stephens
Of the Browns is from a small Texas col
Iege and Harry Howell is supposed to have
been a collegian long ago. Harry Gessles
of the Washingtons is a graduate doctor
and a few more Of the Senators may be
eoncealing their college attainments ever
as they do their base ball abilities.