South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-25
MENKE Tells Of
SCOUT WHO WENT
INTO COAL MINE
Signed Tom Wilson for Mime
apoIiS While Under Earth
Harvard Clears UP Nearly
100000 From Football.
By Frank G.. Menke.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Mike Ka-
hoe, scout for the Washington and
Minneapolis clubs, went down into a
coal mine recently to get the sigma
ture of a catcher who will get a trial
with the Minneapolis club in the
American association next season.
His name is Tom wilson," said
Kahoe. 1T was told to go To Hart
ford, Nebraska, where he lived. When
/ got to Hartford / found it a town
of about 2OO. In the outskirts was a
coal mine. Inquiry developed the
fact that Wilson was at work in the
mine / decided to wait until he came
out in the evening to sign him up. but
/ suddenly changed my mind follow
ing a conversation with one of the
armed guards near the mine.
There's going TO be trouble
around here pretty soon. mister said
the guard. The regular miners are
liable to come in on any train and the
troops are on the way. Kinda think
there's going To be some shootin'
hereabouts'
That was enough for me-" con-
tinued Kahoe. II just made for the
mouth of that mine shaft and de-
manded to be taken down. The
guards around there looked me over.
I thought sure they were going To
'frisk me, but they didn't because 1
presented cards and letters that were
convincing proof that 1 wasn't a spy.
well, after going down and down
for about 50 miles the bucket that I
was riding in reached the bottom. I
was led for three or four miles far
Their and pretty soon / came upon a
gang Of men. My guide pointed out
one and said:
That's Wilson
Il told Wilson that I had come TO
sign him up for the Minneapolis club,
offered him terms and he said they
were satisfactory. Then he signed the
contract and l started for the top of
the earth once more. | got there and
/ got out Of town just before the sold
iers arrived
What did Wilson look like?" Ka-
hoe was asked.
Say 1 wouldn't know him again if
/ saw him on the street or in a mine.''
answered the doubt "All those fell
lows looked alike down there. They
all were about as black and sooty as
could be. Maybe the guide gave me
the wrong steer and maybe I signed
up the wrong man, but I took a
| chance on that rather than hang
around that town any longer than /
| had to-"
EOOLDdll as she Is conducted at
Harvard is quite a lucrative sport.
The total Harvard receipts for the
1914 season were $780, 900. The total
expenses were about $4,000. That
leaves $4,000 as a net profit.
And up in Harvard they resent the
remarks of some folks who contend
that colleges cOmmercialize sport.
The Harvard share for that Yale
Harvard game was about $4,000. The
Princeton game receipts were S4O,-
coo and the Michigan receipts about
came from the washington and JEFF
ferson, Pennsylvania State, Tufts.
Bates, Brown and Springfield Y NJ. c..
A. games.
The Army-Navy football dates aft
er the 1915 game is played may con-
J flict with the Yale-Harvard battle
/ dates 1t has been customary in the
| past for Yale and Harvard TO meet on
! the Saturday proceeding Thanksgiv-
ing day
OF late the Army coaches have
come out strongly against playing
their big game so late in the season,
the contention being that the weather
gets so cold up around West Point to-
ward the latter part of Novembe
that it interferes with training and
| that the coaches are unable TO get the
| players into the proper condition.
TTCEn nTTT nE DrCDE,