Arizona republican., 1912-05-21
NOT SURE HE WANTS BIG LEAGUE BERTH

same queS tions. Here is a,young ath- lete who can run the century close To the ten second mark. one of the few athletes who have been given places on Walter Camps All American football team-that is. one of the few western ers-a lad who had every opportunity to make the team that will battle for the athletic honor of the United States this summer in stockholm. Sweden in the big Olympic meet. Imagine that you were just in his position. and il is dollars to pennies that you would hesi- tate some time before adopting the , course he took.
 Capron has found that playing pro fessionaI ball. especially on National league team is far different from hold l ing down job on the varsity He finds himself thrown in with players who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow on the baseball diamond. He is not now hobnobbing ! with youths who monthly receive sti- ! bends from fond fathers at home who ! wonder why Charles or Franks club ] dues or frat assessments" keep on 1 increasing each month. Then there is ] the "rah rah' element missing. There 1 are uo crowds Of patrouzing students and hero worshipers eagerly awaiting l the chance 70 shake him by the hand 1 after hit or an exceptionally good ! bit of fielding
 l Instead, he sees grim faces on all | sides. He sits on the bench shoulder | to shoulder with men who know that | next winters larder will be fat or
 small. according to what they are able
 to show Manager Clarke. After mak- | ing long hit or fine catch there is no 1 one "n the bench to rush out and grasp | his hand. A remark such as pretty ! good" or ''you got it that time" is con sidered highly hattering. and to the recruits who have been through the
 mill before is enough to set their heads
 q whrling
 1 But with all this. Capron is making | good
 No matter whether I did right or wrong in becoming d professional base 1 ball player, l have made my bed and l l will be the one that will have to lie i in it." is the way Capron put it. "I | am trying hard to make good. and l
 am showing the Pittsburgh club man ! agement all that is in me. l have found | a vast difference between the college brand of baseball and that played in l the big leagues. but l am taking q diff ! ferent course than pursued by many 1 who try to make good in fast com | pany-I am storing away all the advice handed me.
 | The trouble with most college ath- | letes who have chance to make good
 in fast company is that they come to a 1 league team with a great reputation
 made in college and think they know
 1t all. They look down upon their 1 teammates who might be their interiors l in mathematics or physics, but who in variably know more baseball than the
 college youth will ordinarily ever be
 able to learn. l have seen d number
 of these youths fall from their high
 pedestals, and l am going to follow d
 different course. If I fall it will be be-
 cause I am not of big league caliber
 and not because l thought l knew it
 all"
 Coming from a youth who is not giv-
 en to much talking, this sounds like the
 real thing, and if Capron but sticks to
 it, he should some day become one of
 the bright stars of the game. He nev-
 CT talks for effect, being rather quiet.
 For some time his teammates did not
 know how to draw him out, but at last
 AHc ScNIcl was ulSCOFeI6u anu W dS
 found to be his old love-footbalL
 When the gridirOn game came up for
 comment one night recently. Ralph
 was all attention, and it was but a few
 moments until he was busily engrossed
 in telling about a brilliant play he had
 witnessed while at Minnesota.
 One of the most pleasing things about
 this youth is that he never toots his
 To ho
 know his past record on the football
 field. little would he think that this
 lad took an active part in every one of
 the gridiron battles he likes to talk
 about But football will not win him a
 regular place with the Pirates and well
 does he know this.