The Washington times., 1912-03-25
WASHINGTON BOY
NAMES RULES FOR !
COLLEGE PLAYERS
David A. Howard Author of
Interesting Ten Com
mandments."
WAS FORMERLY WITH
WESTERN HIGH NINE
Star Member of Cornell Varsity
Team For Three
l.. Seasons.

In these days, when so many of
Americas greatest ball players are
graduates from college teams. the col
lege ball player is before the public
about ten times as strong as he was ten
years ago. Big league scouts now watch
college mines just as they watch minor
league teams and grab talent from there
as soon as 1t is ripe.
Atlanta has one corking college play
er In David a. Howard. Howard played
ball few years ago with the Western
High School team of Washington, d. c.
When he went to Cornell he made his
freshman team, in the spring of 1905
tile wasn't eligible for a varsity Job
under the one-year rule.) The next
three years he was with the Cornell
varsity. Howards first year with the
team he played through every game of
long college season without an error
up to the final game, when he made his
first and only bobble. Last year the
Cornell team, of which Howard was
the star member, was virtually tied with
princeton for the college championship
Howard worked during his college
years under Dan Coogan, the Wash
ington and Providence player, and
learned a lot of stun His ten COM
mandments for college players are OF
real interest.
By D. A. HOWARD.
Don't let baseball interfere with
your college work. If you went to col
lege strictly to play baseball, you don't
belong there. Your primary purpose is
10 get an education, or else you are
playing under false pretenses. If you
have to drop one or the other drop
baseball
2-Study in the daytime. If a man
studies a lot at night during the
baseball season, 1t puts his batting
eye on the blink. l believe I should
have batted a lot better at Cor
nell If had done more of my studying
in the daytime.
3-Don't overwork your pull. Don't
get the notion that because you are a
ball player you are entitled to any
special privileges of any sort Neither
the professors nor the college author
tiles ought to put up with any more
from you than from anybody else. 81.
Study Players.
4-Studv professional players. Go to
OIL the big games you can. Watch what
the professionals do. Analyze any plays
You don't understand at first. Try 10
figure out why certain plays are made
certain ways. There is a reaon for
everything in baseball. and In the big
leagues they have all the plays worked
cut to the finest possible degree of per.
fcction.
study, yourself You must have
lcge. Therefore, use it, Use your mind
in petfeGtnG your body; II man has
overSo most Of them himself.
e-Eon't overtrain A lot OF college
men think they must live like priz.
fighters preparing for Il big fight to get
in shape; That's Il mistake. Live nor.
nally Don't eat to excess. but eAt
plenty of good grub. It's fine. for what
Cut down smoking. quit drinking
II a man regularly smokes he ought tc
cut down to one smoke a day, taken a.
night. If he smokes too much 1t pay!
hob with his wind. Don't drink at all
many a promising college ball player
Obey Coach.
! S-Do what the coach tells you.
wouldn't advise any man to change hi
natural style Of playing. But as fal
as the making of plays goes do wha
the coach says. He knows more abou
1T than you do. And even If he didn'
you have to follow his instructions o.
ball up the plays.
9-Forget the crowd. Remember your
there to play your own game Don
let the roofing bother you. Just con
centrate on the game and the rest /
easy. If you think hard enough abou
. baseball you will not have much tim
TO think about anything else.
l0-Remember that the scrub team
makes the varsity possible. II the,
take you off the regular team it's
cinch they do it because they hav
somebody better for the position. Don
rgo around telling your troubles. Jus
swing on to a job with the scrubs an
play your head off. If you never max
the regular team you may do as muc
for your college as though you had.