The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-03
COME FROM COLLEGE
Long List of Major L.eaguers
from Yale and Princeton.
DAD CLARKE LOSES GOAT
Fred Tenney Gives Veteran a SUR
prise with Real "Mannishness,"
and Professional Baseball Boasts
No Better Men Than Those Who
Add 20 Games Interest.

College men have played an impOr-
tant part in professional baseball. and
many university players have developed
/ into stars as members of big league
teams. 1t is said that Fred Tenney, OF
| the Giants. was the first collegian 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 the inimitable
Dad Clarke was the goat
Tenney had just Joined the Boston
team, and Clarke was about to pitch
a game against Selees performers. Dad
had heard of Tenney's signing. and de-
cided that he would scare the tender
mammals boy right of the lot He
hunted for Tenney, approached him dur
ing practice, and remarked with
terrible growI and savage glare: Say,
you college lobster, you cheap imitation.
you four-hushing rah-rah. you Willie
boy from the ology class. what business
have you got around here mixing up with
men?"
Tenney turned, a ferce-eyed figure.
with black. struggling hair waving over
pair OF vicious eyes. Sizing Clarke up
for few minutes, he began by squirting
! torrents Of tobacco Juice all over Dads
shoes. Then he turned loose a food
of explosives that curled Clarke up.
leaving him in a dazed and helpless mass
When Dad came in he cried 10 Fred
Knowles: Say, that guy never went to
college. That tough gazaboo never even
went 10 night school"
The collegian who breaks into the big
leagues is usually from the smaller col
leges. the jerkwater labor with their
trigOnometry Men who can AFFORD the
pace OF Yale. Princeton. or Harvard as a
rule ars too well of 20 need a baseball
contract and on graduation step right
into business at their fathers Offices.
There have been some eminent Yale and
Harvard men In the big league. but not
many,
The students from the little colleges,
rugged young fellows OF tremendous
physique. take as naturally to a ball
players life as ducks do to water In a
year or two they become amalgamated
with the great mass OF players. In five
years IL is impossible to distinguish the
coilegian by any sign OF speech or man
ner. as the only way many OF them are
ever identified as varsity men is when
an old classmate chances TO encounter
them The big leagues contain many col
legians whose very schools are forgotten
by all save the men themselves, and no
list Of big league college men ever print
ed has been correct for this strange rea-
son.
Tenney came from Brown, Murray from
Notre Dame. and Mccormick studied en-
cheering at Pennsylvania, Devlin studied
at Georgetown. Bridwell went to a Jerk
water college in Ohio shafer was in a
fever. the great Mathewson is from Buck
nell, Meyers, the big Injun, went to Dart
mouth.
Roy Thomas. OF Boston. went 10 the
University OF Pennsylvania: Coffey. now
with Indianapolis. attended Fordham:
Beaumont, now with Chicago, Is from
Beloit College: Shean is from 2 college
now apparently forgotten. and some Of
the other Beans are probably university
men
OF the BroOklyns. Mcmillan went 20
Georgia School OF Technology. McElveen
to some university in the South. Scsnlon
to medical college, and Wilhelm. almost
twenty years age. was the crack pitcher
Of an Ohio school
Overall, OF the Cubs, was a football star
at a California university: RueIbach
pitched for Vermont and Notre Dame
Chance went TO a California college, and
Hoffman. Kane. and Stanley got pretty
we'll along in the educational line
Higgins. OF the Reds, went 10 law
school; Dubec 10 Notre Dame and nAr-
haps some more OF Grifith's men are
from the little colleges. Grant. of the
Phillies. is from Catholic college and
Sparks is from school In Alabama.
The champion pirates, on the face Of
the returns, seem shy Of college men. but
1t is quite probable that some OF them
We're rah-rshs and have forgotten to an
nounce the fact.
Storke, OF the Cardinals, is from Brown.
Baohman is a pitcher from Cas- Tech
fright name Barton); Beebe is from the
University of Illinois.
Heitmuller, OF the Athletics. Is from
California school; Collins is from Column
bia. Davis is from Glrard College. PhIla-
delphia; Barry is a Holy Cross man:
Plank halls from Gettysburg College
COMBS from Colgate, and Bender. the
Indian. from Carlisle.
Stahl' OF the Boston Red sox. is from
Illinois University; Hooper got a civil
engineering degree upon the Coast; Hahn |
of the White Sox. went to some tiny /
school of Ohio or Tennessee.
Reilly is Yale man. Wiltse is from
Georgetown, stephens. OF the Browns. is
from a small Texas college. and Harry |
Howell Is supposed to have been a col |
legian long ago. Harry Gessler. of the
Washingtons, is a graduate doctor. and a
few more OF the Senators may be con- |
eealing their college attachments even as