The Washington times., 1920-09-30

I'D rather play ball than eat is
Il'rederick's way or expressing IL,
showing that no reads the sporting
pages as well as his text books In
| French. Spanish and analytical geom-
\ etry.
Frederick is an only son. His
parents are OF English descent. His
father Is q physician, as was his
grandfather. His mother was
teacher. IS,
The parents idea is that their son
Is not precocious. but much like other
boys. except he knows how to copcen-
trate and is willing to work.
For instance. Frederick will play q
hard game OF Baseball and get SO
tired that one would think he was
about to drop. But instead OF rest
ing he will get out French book
and read, recuperating In that FASH
ion. He likes good lectures and he
can sit through an entire lecture
without getting ndgety, his mother
says.
COULD SPELL WHEN TWO.
when Fred was two years old he
began to spell words almost as soon
as he could talk" his mother said.
"We encouraged him and taught
him as much as we could for d child
OF that age. He began to spell en-
tire sentences In q few weeks. Be
fore he was three years old ne. had
learned the multiplication table.
AT the age of eleven he entered
the Wilkes-Barre high school. He
finished two years in one, and then
we moved to Philadelphia, where we
lived at 1900 Spring Garden street.
He was graduated from the Central
High School last summer when he
was thirteen.
Fred took second honors in French.
Among those who came up for the en-
trance examination to Harvard he was
the only one who wore short trousers
He was usually finished before the
others and he got a good grade.
READS GREEK EASILY.
Latin and German he began study
ing when he was nine ytars old. Since
hen he has learned to read French,
spanish and Greek fuently. He pre-
f.rs reading French or Spanish to
English. and he has a good French:
library. In the last four years he has
four years of Latin, three years OF
french. and nearly the same amount
Of Spanish and German. He has never
studied ihuch Greek, but reads ii well.
Fred expects to follow in his
fathers footsteps, studying the Latin
scientific course at Harvard, and upon
his graduation taking up medicine"
That the boys prowess is not linn
tied to books is testified to by the
other youngsters of Wapwallopen. He
holds the same position relatively on
the boys team as Babe Ruth does on
the Yankees. He can pitch a little.
too. and on the bases he's whirlwind
baseball is the only sport he has taken
Up. - t'# NH 90 t'''''
Between cries of ''Atta boy. and
Give him another!s the boy verified
his mothers statement that he expect
ed to be a doctor.
The boy Is about the usual height
for his age, and his 1.-THE. well built
end muscled body shows no sign OF
wearing out on account OF study
Frederick does considerable wo.~
in the house, his mother says. and is
never content unless he is doing some
thing trait natural for a boy of
thirteen. i.
DABBLEs IN CHEMISTRY.
"He has been so busy playing ball
this summer" his mother said, that
he has not had much time for work
or course, he reads French or Span.
ish at night or gets out his chemical
outfit and does some experiment that
his father puzzled over in college.
For a while at the time he was
taking the college board examinations
We thought he would not be allow ed
to enter Harvard He made up his
mind that IL he could not go there he
would go to Princeton. The question
revolved around the mathematics Fred
wanted. He had passed analytical
du
but he thought perhaps he would
have to take it over That he did not
want to do. But everything has work
out nicely, and we will be starting in
Ia few days for Cambridge"