Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-27
vEReATILITY OF PLAYERS.
Many Diamond Stars Alec Crack
 Football Players.

At this season of the year, when the stentorian cry of first down. Is heard on many of the big ball parks in the country. instead of "struke one'' or ball tuh," It brings to mind how many stars of the diamond were also past masters in the art of tackltng, lodging, bunting, passing, buclSing the line and all the other plays used by the wearers of the '-moleskins." While it does not necessarily follow that any good ball player can become a great football player, or that a good football player can generate into a star baseball player, it is 9, fact, never theless. that in many cases the stud ent who is clever on the ball field is also able to make the necessary num- Der of yards for 8 first down when q crisis arrives in a football game.
 Thorpe Most Noted.
 Some of the best colIegians who were equally skillful on diamond or gridiron never entered professional ball. but in taking a snap retrospect one can easily recall quite a. few star ball players of the few years who were ScintillantS on the football field. The latest athlete-and incidentally the most renowned-to become a. na- tional celebrity on both the diamond and the barred field is none other than the oborigine, Jim" Thorpe.
 It is unnecessary to dilate on the
 
 too well known. and therefore it suf- fices to say that Thorpe, while captain of the Carlisle eleven was the unani- nous choice of the leading football critics of the country for one of the backheld positions on the "AIl-Ameri- can" football eleven, and some, am- thorities were enthusiastic enough to say that Thorpe was the best football player who ever put foot in a cIeated shoe. Thorpe has not as yet reached the realm of stardom in the baseball world, but such a capable judge of ball players as McGraw predicts a brilliant future for the Indian.
 Three More Carlisle Men.
 Other Indians who played baseball on major league diamonds and foot ball at Carlisle were Jimeson, Jude and Mike BalenH Jimeson pitched on the Philadelphia team until he hurt his arm, and was a member of the football eleven with Jude was Mike Balenti, who will be remembered by southern league fans as Chattanooga'S third baseman in 1912. incidentally, he will be back in 1914. One of the best backs in the country of his time was Dave Fultz, who with ms teamna4a. Cannon, made a pair of ground gain CTS for the Brown university unsur- passed by any team in intercollegiate football Fultz was star on the dia- WLI1lG WlLu Ln5 ALuI6IICS una L00 New York Americana, his base run ming being especially brilliant.
 Eddie Grant played football at HaT- ward before going to the National league to handle bunts and drives around third base. Pitcher Hide brand, carried on a major league re- serve list for years, was one of Princeton's most dependable men in the big football games. Jake StahL who led for the Boston American lea que club to a pennant in 1912 and later handed the ice pitcher, was cap tain of the university of Illinois foot ball team, and one of the best men In his position in the middle West.
 Overall and Matty.
 Overall who helped pitch the Chi cago Cubs into few pennants, played football at the university of California in 1901, and could tear a hole in the line through which a wagon could be driven. Arthur DevItn, former Giant, and Catcher Lew Drill were members of the Georgetown university football eleven, Devlin being the captain. Christy Mathewson's exploits on the gridiron are almost as familiar to some baseball and football fans as are his pitching feats on the diamond. Matty was some football player while at Buckneu. Fred Crotlus. who played outfeld for the Boston Nationals, cap tained the Dartmouth college eleven some years ago and Frank Shaugh- messy, who once wore a Washington uniform, was a great football player while attending Notre Dame unfvcrwt- ty in days gone by.