Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
IDEAS ON AMATEURS.
Sir Tedford Sullivan Comes to
Bat With a Few Remarks
ANENT SUMMER BASE BALL
Tells Truthful Story of His Deal
With Simon Pure Col
legian.

L o''S
honest and broad-minded collegian like
George Huff of the University of Illinois
to tear aside the mask Of the pharisaical,
hypocritical and puritanical college ath-
letes. writes Ted Sullivan. Here were a
lot of those collegians playing summer
ball every year in minor leagues under
fictitious names-to retain their amateur
standing. There is many a struggling
student who finds the summer money
paid to him for his skill very convenient
TO pay his tuition at school for eacn
coming year. No penalty or stigma
should be placed on a young man Tor re-
eeiving money for such a commendable
rurpose 1t is only class OF students
who come from the dollhouse of college
snobbery that have a hidden pocket them
selves to receive this supposed tainted
money.
- rhe most amusing experience l ever
had in nv base ball career was with col,
regians who for many years nave piayeu
at Atlantic City during the months VI
July and August. While living In WASH
iuyton in the winter of 1891 oVertures
were made to me by a Pennsylvania Uni
yersity student named Mackhn, VIM
graduated from The foot ball cruz OF tna.
institution. He wanted to suoiet me 'iie
grounds he had lease on at the met a,
I'll
when I went to his Office In Phllaoeipiia
TO consummate the deal he had oaPho
i'm his hand. while his shelves were hoou-
ed with law books. When ne began "
1r,-n me over the lease he said he needed
money badly. and if l would give him
500 cash | could have the lease Oh the
grounds for 1897.
DESTROYS myself of spending few
months al the seashore, and WISHING
also to- see what change there was IN
handling esthetic athletic students from
rude professionals, I agreed TO ms Terms.
However before drawing UP tne papers
10 sign he told me that l must nave not
ono professional on my team, but they
must all be collegians. and must pe
either graduates OF undergraduates from
Pepnsvivania Yale and Harvard. told
him / would suit myself on tha.; ne
flew into a college passion ana said:
MI. Sullivan. you cannot draw i2dies
If your PLAYERS are not students OF the
big universities. and If they kne" you
had one professional ON your team Soui
attendance would be only noisy pieacher-
ties.
While we were discussing collesians and
snon-collegians I noticed that he was
Throwing his left pepper on the checS I
held in my hand. While in the act OF
folding the check he thought Wouid
change my mind. which brought on a
cold sweat. We'll. Mr.. SULLIVAN. 1 VIII
not insist that the coiiegians must De
.II from the three colleges named, Dut
warn you for your own financial good
don't engage any professional"
College Boys After Coin.
Well. the papers were signed for the
lease and the check was passed over to
him and he clutched it like Il drowning
man would a life preseryer. He, now
ever mt one over on me on the document
that 7 did not notice Ut the time, whereby
lie inserted clause that I would have
TO engage only bona Tide eoilegians, winch
he thought at the time might BRING UP d
technicality that would cause the grounds
10 revert 20 him if necessity demanded
il. He then gave me list OF the collie
gisns thct he had the wear before ana
warteo me to engage. To my surprise,
he told me what those students would
want. namely. from $50 to SO per week.
and would rave to De boaroed Tree VI
charge at one OF the best hotels at AT
laptic City. He further stated that the
rioner must be paid to them in some way
whereby n would not interfere with their
ary,ateur standing at college, for il it was
known that they received money would
he an awfu. shock to pure athletics.
As | had my kidding clothes On, Il
asked him if / would have to throw 1t
owe. the ransom of their rooms, or would
I have to steal in at night and put 1t
under their pillows while they were
asleep, or would I have to wrap 1t up IN
their napkins and mark il a remittance
from home. He smiled. and then reached
over and marked the page on the book
''Sapho" he left off reading when l
entered.
Well. we parted. Spring came. April
advanced and May came in with its leafy
foliage. commenced 10 negotiate Tor
the PLAYERS for July and August. An
sv-ers commenced to come back, and they
stated what they wanted, some asking
for ten passes a day. besides salary. TO
;;iye 10 their society ladies who would be
surnmering at the seashore. They I'M
ind ais recent
would be given for money advanced to
them. as they stood high in pure ath-
letics. However, there was one manly
Young fellow from the University of Viz
pinia who Enclosed me a letter that
MackIin sent him telling him to ask $50
week from me, but he would want for
himself $50 of the amount paid him.
said to myself: All, ha: he had pro-
fessioDal lamb and lie wanted to shear
him good and neat. We will see how he
sheared him.
will say to the credit of the coliegians
that | heard from they did not enter
into any collision with him whereby he
could graft from me, although they
wanted their money by the Santa Claus
route TO Save pure athletics, but l fully
comprehepded the scheme of this kid
eioved college CRATER, Macklin
Ted Fills With Professionals.
AS could not get all collegians. 1 en-
and one of them was George Browne,
who afterward played with the New
York Giants and Chicago Cuos.
. Well. my ''bucko" in Philadelphia COM
Jncncsd TO think he was to miss the
Boardwalk and the saltwater Atlantic
breeze that gives the college base ball
Isaguate all the happiness he desires. His
aim now was TO try and pick up some
angel student OF the Pennsylvania Uni
versity TO back him should he be able
10 get the base bail grounds back. He
at last. found this party in a person Of a
student whose father was a millionaire
hare ball fan. 50 he then commenced to
fight me for possession of the grounds
lay claiming I was violating the most es-
sential clause in our contract. in not
having all real collesians oil my team,
and George Browne was the one he
picked on iirst. Browne | took from the
lots in Washington, ID. G.
from him. and come of them very an
moving, he finally claimed he was going
10 law TO recover the grounds
finally opened up my batteries of sa-
tire and irony on him. / told him that
George Browne had a diploma for eating
more Greek verbs and Latin roots and
sransIating them into fly catchers than
any student had, and that ! was 60
ing to have an investigation as to how
he got his diploma from the University
of Pennsylvania. as his letters to me vio-
lated all the laws of syntax-that his
lenses were one month apart, and that
Ills rhetoric would shame a prep schol-
80. aad I,iS nrfjaoprarhy WAS so had fhat