The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-12
COLLEGE PLAYERS
 NOT MAKING RUSH
 TO PRO BASEBALL.
University Athletes Seem a Bit Shy When Contract
 Signing Is Mentioned
By GEORGE CHADWICK special Correspondent of The Age Herald Copyright, 1921, by The Age-HeraId)


 Copyright, 1921, by The Age-HeraIdD
 New York, June 11.-(Special. )- No extraordinary rush of college players to professional baseball will be in evidence after the end of the college year which is at hand. Now and then one has sgnified his in- tention to sign contract or possi ply has attached his name formally to one, but college men are not so enthusiastic for professional base ball as they were.
 Dooley. of Boston university, a good infielder, has thrown in his lot With professional ball and will be with the Boston Nationals next year if he shows ability in Virginia this summer.
 " some time ago'it' was ascertained that Parks, of Michigan, really was gripped with theathroat clutch of the professional. Moe, the Illinois short stop listened to the soft voice of , the wooing scout and pledged him self to Detroit. The latter team has sent him to Portland, Ore, to acquire experience
 Auburn Men to Go
 Haines, of Pennsylvania State. who resigned as captain of the college team when his amateur standing was called into question, will go to the fahkees.r Detroit has heard favor ably from Johnson, a pitcher. and s.t.- whom go from Alabama Polytechnic to join Cobb From Southwestern college, in Texas, big pitcher by the name of Stafford will join the Chicago White Sox.
 Clancey, of Swarthmore a thick. rugged boy, has signed a contract to play with the Giants. He is a pitcher without experience but with good arm and speed
 Hnk, an Amherst pAcher, will go rom college to professional base ball. He too, will be Giant. He needs much work and the Giants. in another years, will be needing many pitchers.
 Want Yale Backstop
 Feelers have been put out for Pe- ters the Yale catcher and captain. but he has another year at Yale and does not seem to be at white heat Tn. regard to professional baseball There. are professional teams that would like to get German. the Yale first baseman, who also has another year at Yale. Sloan, a Yale out fielder would be welcomed by the pros"
 year ago one of the professional New England scouts sent word fo Conlon, the Harvard shortstop. that yI-O -OII l.. for the privilege of signing him to an agreement to engage in profess sional baseball with the team which would give him the highest salary. It is not certain that Conlon got the word and if he did not, there are other teams which would like to take him from amateur to professional ranks. 4[s
 Cleveland has another college man in Edwards from Mississippi. but he will not play professionally just as yet.
 Since the war many of the college men have been fighting shy>of the professional contract. One of the Yale nine in discussing the proposi- tion to enter professional baseball said he would not lose his freedom to professional baseball club. He knew that the baseball contract of organized baseball was no different from what it had been in the past, but said that most of the college men with whom he had conversed and who had entered professional baseball. informed him that it was not all 1t has been painted, and that once in a man was in for good, so far as personal athletic liberty was concerned.
 If you wish to quit playing vol untarily you can do so," said the college man, "but you are declared to be an Ineligible. and, as that is a general classification which em- braces the crooks of the game as well as;~those who are honest, it Is not much reward for trying to deal fairly with an organization whfSh does as it pleases most of the time. "Then, too, l have found, that col l lege men are not crazy about base ball since the revelations of 1919 regarding the world series. In ad- dition. there's always the possibility that you may be sold around like a piece of junk and without any voice as to where you go. If that isnt slavery 1t is approximately the same thing and have decided that I want my liberty as human being" Penn. Wins Meet