The Washington herald., 1910-03-06
OLD-TIMERSAREBEST
Few Major Leaguers Now
College Coaches.
ROY THOMAS At PENN
Veterans Seem to BE Getting the
Cali Over TopnOtchers in Game
Been Chosen 10 Handle Harvard'x
CandidRtes-KnOyvs the Game.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.

/ From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
1 Fewer players In the major leagues
have been engaged this year TO coach
college teams than since the employment
of professional coaches became a fad
with the big institutions CT learning. II
/ is the policy of managers to jiscourege
this practice as much as possible. as they
want their stars to take the spring train
/ ing trip instead OF trying to drill the fine
points OF the game into lot Of students.
/ Oid-tiIners are now getting the jobs at
/ the big universities instead Of men who
are at the top OF the heap as players at
/ the present time. For instance. Roy
/ Thomas, the former great outfielder OF
the Phiilies. IS now coaching at PennsyI-
vania; Bit Clarke, the once noted
! catcher of the Baltimore team, will nave
/ the JOB at Princeton. and Malachi Kit
tredge. another old catcher, may sign 10
coach Harvard 4 noted exception to
what is getting 10 be the rule is Hal
Chase. first baseman OF the New York
Americans, who is coaching a college
team in the South.
/ Connie Mack has always discouraged his
players from acting as coaches at the
college. Indeed. it has cost the Athletics
leader a good many dollars TO prevent
certain of his stars from accepting such
offers.
Clarke Coached Tigers.
Manager Clarke, of the Pittsburg club.
few years ago coached the Princeton
team. When Clarke arrived at the uni
versity he found the manager Of the
baseball team badly worried The latter
announced that he had about sixty candi-
dates for the varsity team and that it
would be mighty hard for Clarke TO weed
them out
"AII right" replied Clarke. "trot 'em
out, and let's look 'em over
one look was about enough for the
Pirates manager. In one afternoon
Clarke separated the candidates into two
squads The smaller squad consisted OF
about eighteen men.
There's your varsity squad, remarked
Clarke, pointing TO the smaller group,
Wen work on them
With that number Clarke set TO work.
and that year the Tigers baseball team
was one of the best it had ever had.
The reason probably was that much time
was saved in not having TO bother with
candidates who never would have made
the varsity, and Clarke was able to de-
vote his attention 10 a few players in
stead of trying to teach the finer points
OF the game to about three-score and
wedding them out one by one.
Exit" at Harvard.
If Malachi Kittredge coaches Harvard.
the Crimson will not award him a degree
for sprinting ability. In nearly every
other respect he should be OF great value
to the baseball men. for he knows the
game from =" A 10 D." When playing in
the major leagues. Kittredge disputed
with Monte Cross the title of champion
Nightly hitter. Kit" could certainly send
the ball an awful distance in the air,
but 1t usually went almost straight I'D.
and when it came down there was a
fielder waiting for It.
During the closing days OF his catching
as major Lacquer, Kittredge's legs be-
gan to go back on him, and it took a
drive long enough for an ordinary two
Dagger TO get him to first base While
manager of the Washington team KIT
got Disguised with his job and traded
himself of 10 the New York club II was
a decidedly unique proceeding, but he
couldn't escape his troubles, for the direc-
tors of the Washington club refused 10
ratify the deal. and Kittredge had 10 re-
Join the Senator'S.
One advantage which the colleges gain
in having old-timers coach. instead OF
stars. is that the former are
able TO remain with the students longer
and frequently until the end OF the col
lege season in June instead Of only q
few weeks.