The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-17
Baseball Graduates
Attain High Places
Pitcher John Tener Named For Governor of Pennsylvania
Many Other Ex-Players Have Risen to Prominence
in Professional and Business Life.

those who know the least of the mer-
its of the great game. II teaches
man among other things TO be fair.
He acquires the habit of self-control
and the virtue of perseverance. He
must not lose his temper; if he does
he cannot be good ball player. He
must learn to repress the temptation
which often confronts him of doing
injury to his opponent; he must ac-
cept the discipline dealt out By UNI
pire and manager, and he must keep
In mind the rules If he fails in these
requirements he becomes mean and
unmanly. Religion is an aid to good
ball playing and good ball playing
helps religion. The majority of those
who play ball are good, clean men
and gentlemen.
William Goeckle, who played first
base for the Philadelphia Club, Is
now prosperous attorney in Wilkes
barre.
Hughey Jennings, the popular
manager of the Detroit Tigers, has
his shingle out in Scranton, where he
practices law. Hughey says he can't
afford to retire altogether from base
ball while he is making the money
his job as manager of the Tigers pays
him.
Billy Sunday an Evangelist.
Rev. William A. Sunday, known
for many years as Billy Sunday, one
of the stars of the Chicago team, has
made a remarkable record as an
evangelist. That revival work pays
much better than baseball is demon
strated by the fact that the Rev. Mr..
Sunday recently received in the way
of contributions s3622.S4 for one
months preaching.
Edward M. Lewis, for years well
known as a pitcher of the Boston Ma
tional League team, is graduate of
a divinity school in Massachusetts,
and is a regularly ordained clergy
man. He gave up the diamond to ac-
cept professorship in Columbia Uni
versity.
Norwood r. Gibson, graduate OF
Notre Dame University, and for eight
years a pitcher for the Kansas City,
Washington and Boston clubs, Is an
instructor in general and analytical
chemistry in Wabash College.
Danny Richardson, of the Giants,
the late Mike Griffin, of the Brooklyn
Club, are two ball players who re-
tired in their prime to become sue
cessful business men. Richardson is
in the dry goods business in Elmira
and Griffin was the proprietor of a
brewery in Utica when he died.
Some of the players who used their
baseball salaries to pursue the study
Of medicine or dentistry are the late
Doc Bushong, of the st. Louis and
Brooklyn teams; Jimmy Casey, of
Chicago and Brooklyn; G.. Harris
White, of the Chicago White Sox;
Harry Gessler, of Washington; Mark
Baldwin, of Chicago and New York;
Eustace Newton, of Toronto; the late
Maurice Powers, of the Philadelphia
Athletics, and Billy Scanlon, of the
Brooklyn Club.
Children of professional ball play
ers have also become prominent
helped by the money their fathers
made in the game. Sid Farrar, first
baseman of the Philadelphia Club in
the eighties, spent all of his salary
he possibly could spare on the early
musical education of his gifted daugh-
ter, Geraldin Farrar, the soprano of
the Metropolitan Opera Company.
The learned Justice Frederick Crane,
of Brooklyn, is the son of Fred Crane,
who played second base for the cham
pion Atlantics, of Brooklyn, in the
sixties.-New York World.