Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-26
YALE MEN SHINE
Ellis Claim Lead in Profess
sionaI League Fame.
MANY STARS TURNED OUT
Barney Reilly Of Brooklyn Latest
Dark Blue Boy to
Make Good.
MANY STARS TURNED OUT

NEW HAVEN. March 26.-When Bar
ney Reilly of Brockton. the former White
Sox infielder, Joined the Brooklyns this
spring Yale colors were again given a
place in big league ranks
Reilly started Yale career in base
ball. but broke it off to play professional
ball. and Joined the Chicago Americans
upon his graduation from the Yale law
school.
He is now practicing his profession in
conjunction with trying to win a place
as a regular member of the Trolley
Dodgers.
Reilly's rise to base ball fame recalls
the f-ct that more Yale base ball stars
have won big league fame than those of
any other American university More
have also refused gilt-edged offers to &c
into professional ball. }he public will
be surprised to learn that Brown Univer-
sity comes next. with such stars as Lee
Richmond. pitcher; Winslow, catcher;
Bassett, infielder, and Tenney, Sexton
and Woodcock.
fale's list of big league stars includes
Reilly. Tom Murphy, William Hutchinson
and Dan Jones. and the great Yale
players who could have named their own
salary had they gone into big league ball
are partially embraced in 'Lonny" Stage,
Dutch Carter. Yales two greatest pitch
ers; Harry keator, Yale's greatest base
runner and outfielder, and Tad Jones.
1ale's most wonderful catcher
Billy or Tot Murphy of Westboro as
shortstop of the New Yorks in 1894 and
$50. played championship ball. the
Giants In 1894 winning the Temple cur
and worlds championship honors Muir.
ply, who was a brother of Nuke Murphy
the trainer and athletic coach, and I'M
Gle of Fred Murphy, Yale's captain four
years ago. played on the Yale nine fou,
years, graduating in 90 and before
his death in 1908 was head coach at Yale
two seasons and two or three at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and at Leland
Stanford University. California.
Jones. as he was known when he practi-
cally Won the American Association
championship for the Athletics in 1893
was the greatest intercollegiate pitcher
the championship both of these seasons
After he finished his Yale career he
joined the Athletics in midsummer. 1888
and that team jumped from second divi-
sion to the league lead, barely winning the
championship to a whirlwind finish.
Not till Rube Waddell, twenty years
later. repeated Jones' feat were the Ath-
letics able to repeat their performance OF
victory. Jones and Murphy, after they
had finished their medical education gaye
up professional base ball. In fact nc
Yale player has used professional base
ball as other than stepping stone to q
business or a professional career, with
one exception.
After leaving college ans going into
business, with no expectation Of return
Ing TO the national game, William F.
Hutchinson entered 1t and became a Ma
t'onal League star in position in which
he had not particularly shone or played
regularly in college. Hutchinson, or
Hutch is recalled today by base ball
enthusiasts Of the early nineties as one OF
Chicago's greatest pitchers He was
picked by Uncle Adrian Arson from Oma-
ha. where he had taken up pitching in
connection with his business as a pastime
after leaving college.
Yet in college, although one of Yale's
greatest all-round players and most sue.
cessful captains. Hutchinson was only
incidentally a pitcher. He was an In
| fielder. regularly a shortstop. and his
team of - gave Yale its first champion
ship. its first scoop of a series from Har-
ward. Hutchinson played four years or
Yale mines. remaining In college for two
seasons after being graduated in the
| class of 80. Yale. under his powers OF
| organization and playing strength, cou-
pied with the presence of Dan" Jones