Evening star., 1912-09-09
, a league where there are twenty-six

in a league where there are twenty-siN
batters hitting over the 800 mark II
Is interesting to note that three OF ms
wins showed the classiest sort OF twari-
ing and were Of the white wash variety
One was a goose egg affair in which the
Cubs only got three hits, another q
10 to fray in which but two of the
Boston braves got as far as the second
sack, and the latest was when he Desteo
Fromme in a pitching duel Inat resulted
i'm a 1 to o victory over Cincinnati. Ger
tainly there's a reason for Murphy to
offer Horace G. Fogel something like
$1,000 for Eppa, declaring at the same
time he believed Rixey to he the pes'
twirler he has seen in Chicago for years
Griffith has a pair of collegians who
while they may not be setting things
afire. still are about as consistent a pan
of players as a manager could want The
two in question are JohA Henry of Am
herst and Joe Engel, who has made
Mount ST. Mary's College famous.
The latter, but boy, has taken part
in ten games, and is credited with three
victories and two defeats. Engel has
been used as q relief hurler, and because
of the grand fight the Nationals have
been making for the flag it has not been
practical to let the youngster take MS
turn regularly.
According to one Of the best judges in
the world of q ball player, the Amherst
asset is the best catcher in the game, and
this critic is none other than the con-
seryative and usually noncommittal Con-
ME Mack Aside from his good hitting
qualities the college backstopper is one OF
the few good versatile players In the
game. Under McAleer, Henry often held
down first base in grand style The Wash
ington club will be able to lay claim to
another collegian when NDoc" Ayers
joins the team at the close of the Virginia
State League season. This big six-footer
halls from the Medical College of Vir-
ginia-
Not ALI Roses for Recruit.
1t is not all a bed Of roses for the re-
cruit in the big show" as number OF
the university players can testify
"Toots'' Schultz, although still in fast
company. is one of those who have had
their: bumps The former University OF
Pennsylvania boxman entered organized
base ball last year, and made poor
start. but Doom believed Schultz had the
making of good twirler, and tided him
over. One good thing about him, as well
as all Of the other college players, is the
fact that he is strong on the stickwor (.
For a pitcher he is batting out a good
average of $50.
Still another Of the intercollegiate stars
who. assayed to make as good record
in the big league. but failed, is Steve"
White. For three years ne was Prince
tons mainstay in the box, and last year
pitched it to victory over Yale. The
Giants gave him tryOut through the
latter part of the season OF 1911 and this
spring Clark Griffith carried him for a
month. Griff evidently believed the
Orange and Black, boy might develop
into a twirler Of major league caliber.
for he has a string attached allowing the
Washington club to recall him.
Most of the players from the colleges
enter professional ranks before they COM
plete their courses. In fact, some start
before finishing high school, as in the
case of Jack knight, formerly with Phila.
delphia, New York and Washington, and
a youngster the Yankees have been
trying out named George Lowe, who is
but seventeen. and pitched for the Hack
ensack, N. j., high school this season.
This period when college men enter into
base ball for a livelihood comes just
about the time that the majority Of all
college men have a longing, to get outside
the walls of the institution and take up
q business. or, in fact. anything that
leaves text books entirely out of the
question. Often this idea of going into
business, especially when it has anything
back of it, is instrumental in keeping
some from the diamond.