The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-23
ATHLETES IN BATTLE OF
SELF-SUPPORT AT COLLEGE
Football Players Work Way Through University of North
Carolina By Washing Dishes, Waiting On Dining
Table, and In Barber Shop-Heroes of College Tales.
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W on all Of his studies, and in the
meantime to nave earned the title Of
'Homerun' Pope. due to his phenome-
nal batting average. is no small-sized
feat FOR a youth of some twenty wears.
Yet that is the u~ncOntradicted record
OF William era wford Pope. a fresh
man of the University and a member
or both the varsity's football and base
ball assregations. What is most re-
markable to his unchallenged claim to
having scored eleven home runs in sew
enteen games in which he participated.
Is that he has Shaved his Way
through all these glorious years. He
is a barber, and by that route he is
paving his way TO an education. as
well as establishing home-run records
baseball cams in his home
town. Like many another youth
struggling for an education. he was
early in bOyhood days thrown on his
w his parents having died
while ne was nine years old. Early he
had inkling for the barber business.
and his prediction for the trade soon
opened up a resOurceful way to obtain
FUNDS for an education. During his
prep school days at Mars Hill his
wages for barbering a single month
would often climb to $40. and since
coming to the university his monthly
stlpends from the village barber shop
has netted him the sum OF s35. His
athletic interests are extensive. and
one years stay at the university will
nnd him comfortably located on both
n varsity football and baseball
teams. In baseball he features. and
his splendid amateur record was SO
pronounced that last season the Ashe-
vile club OF the Carolina League held
out nattering inducements for him to
join professional baseball. His lean
ing amateur baseball was too
strong. and he forthwith declined to
enter professional baseball. His 20
Sitlon on the team is first base, and
during the past summer, while he was
making eleven home runs in seven
teen games, he ran up his batting aver
age to $40. Through his hobby in stud
les is mathematics, he is pursuing the
course or pharmacy as a preparation
for life work.
Incidents OF Pathfinder.
THE single achievement in my col
iese career as a seff-supporting ath-
iete that I am most proud OF is the
winning Of the journalistic cup, as
awarded for the best writing Of a
Journalistic nature during the year. is
a statement from an athlete that is
significant Of the life OF many self
supporting athletes that athletics does
not always predominant to the sacri-
nee or other worthy college activities.
varied were the activities OF this
student. who, for the past eight years.
IN high school and college. earned ali
MS expenses. During his four years
stay in the university, by the dint Of
labor. he earned $500. From a green
five years ago, as a waiter
on the tables. to the present day as .
manager OF the athletic store and a
candidate for his Phi. D. degree, the
story 0f tho on11orn ooroor v--.-
Lawrence Orr, 1911 man,
Is one brimming with incidents Of a
pathfnder to the safe road of knoWl-
edge. His athletic record and scholar
ship standing travelled side by side.
with each receiving due attention. AS
class football player for two years.
scrub varsity one year, and varsity
two years, are linked his achievements
IN the classroom n other student &C
t%ivities. He attained an average grade
of 80 ia his studies; was editor-in-
chief OF the college magazine: took
active part in the literary societies and
won the Preston Journalistic cup, and
incidentally writes poetry. The vaca-
ton months fnds him in the emDloy-
ment OF some traction hav-
ing worked in all departments Of a
street a ny. from Office boy to
motOrfnan. His graduate days at his
alma mater finds him no less a busy
body than was his undergraduate
days. In addition to chasing his A.
n NJ. and PHI. D., he is OF
the athletic store, and next year. as
this one. will find him en- the athletic
field working for a position on the
football eleven.
The manly graphing Of the self
supporting athlete often has to over
come the uncertainties CT regular
work, as furnished by various aeer-
cies. The laundry agency perhaps,
has first call in the students estima-
ton Tor sureness Of employment the
year round. In fact. Robert Lee Ed
wards. a member Of Cardinals foot
BAH and baseball! squads, is positive
that even a panic could not have any
material effect on the demand for
clean linen. So the ideas SO firmly
grounded in his mind back IN he
"old field school in Guilford COUNTY
in boyhood days that 4 dead sure
thing beats an uncertainty any time
still exercises a profound influence
in guiding his footsteps in safe paths
OF a college career. He tackles a