The New York herald., 1922-07-09
Yale Captain and Conlon Of
Harvard Declined Pro-
Offers.
GEORGETOWN TO FORE
In Hyman and Reynolds 1t
Had Leading Pitchers
GaZella Real Star.
BY DANIEL.


scouts with whom we held converse
on the subject. the college baseball
crop of 1922 was above the average.
But. take IL from these seifsame
scouts. that does not mean that the
varsity stars who have been gradu-
ated in the big show within the last
few weeks constitute record break
ing aggregation of talent. The fact
is that some of the best OF the col
legians who got their shee.@ilins
turned down professional offers.
Stars like Malcolm Aidrich, the Yale
shortstop and captain. and Jocko Con-
Ion. the Harvard shortstop and leader.
may have been inclined toward a
ding at the professional game. They
certainly had offers galore. and the
temptation for a collegian to try his
hand at major league labor Is over
powering. But. for one thing. the
financial lure of the diamond is not as
strong as it used to be FOR men of
that type, and. for another thing. that
hullabaloo on professionalism brought
tremendous graduate pressure to bear
against going into the majors.
For some reason or other there Is a
feeling in some collegiate and outside
quarters that a varsity star who signs
with a league club must have had pro-
fessional tendencies while he was in COL
lege. There is baseless tendency to
look back with suspicion on the anna
81 thr.G xsrl,A fr~r ,<>lI.
into the big show. This tendency, with
out question. had lot to do with the
refusal Of certain luminaries to sign
with major leaague clubs.
AIdrich Finest Prospect.
According to many Of the scouts, the
finest major league prospect in the COL
leges was Aldrich--a fine fielder. a good
hitter. a fast athlete OF great versatility.
That boy knows what to do with his
feet and hands when he is out there .
said a scout to US the other day. He
hasn't that bad habit of the collegian
of settling himself for a ground ball. He
Is mobile--that as to both hands and
feet-and he Is In there thinking all the
time
There isn't club in the major leagues
which did not try to land the Eli star.
Detroit was first on deck with an offer
OF ~ ,e00 to sign contract and some
thing like $1,000 for the season. Then
came the Giants with an offer which
topped that The Yankees, the Cubs
the Red Sox-all hands were after the
Fall River youngster. but he has decided
10 go TO Europe for year and then so
into business
We can't say that he has made the
wrong decision. Professional baseball
IL we'll enough IL the collegian turns out
Collins, Sisler or a Frisch. a Coombs
or Plank. but its virus is fatal II 1t
cannot be cleared from the system IL n
descent Is made into the minors.
s5~o csher shortstops ranked rather
close 70 Aldrich-in fact, t;se-e are some
who believe that they excelled the Eth.
Conlon of the Crimson was great enough
even last year to receive ma jor league
offers and he was greater still in 1929.
but just when IL was thought that he had
decided to go into the professionl ranks
he announced that he had made a def
mite decision against such a move He
Is going into the Harvard Law School in
be fall.
n ,Gagnon Goes to Tigers.
J Chick Gagnon, the Holy Cross star.
fwho is rated by some scouts as the best
varsity man who has made the profess
sional step, has signed with Detroit and
may be in there any day. Another first
class shortstop who has turned profes-
sional is Maynard, the Dartmouth man.
He already has made his debut with the
Red Sox. We will pass on TO the plea s.
ant pastime OF naming an All Eastern
college honor roll for 1922. We will
begin with the pitchers--and a fine lot
they were. Scouts tell us that the best
1pf MN al.
left handler. who just has closed a re
markabie career with the champions
Hyman got offers from the majors as
Tar back as three years ago. Ed Barrow
told us about his fine ability when he
was managing the Red Sox. Ed was
after him but could not land the young
ster. who was taking a course in den
tistry.
Now Hyman has decided to yank
teeth instead of tossing strikes. Reyn-
olds. his team mate. was another steI.
iar worker. We were under the impress
sion some time ago that he was headed
Tor the Giants--but we hear that Il
DeFotiations were opened In that direc.
tion they were dropped.
Enst's Leading Flfngers.
Hyman. Reynolds. Clinton Blume OF
Colgate. who is TO sign with the Giants,
and Ogden OF Swarthmore, headed for
the Athletics. seem to rank as the lead
ing four. Mcnamara Of Fordham, who
is with the Braves. is close up and SO is
Seaman of Lafayette. Murray Of Syra-
cuse. now with Brooklyn: Carroll of
Holy Cross, only freshman: Hunt
ginger of Pennsylvania. Houlihan OF
Ffsddlebury. who has accepted terms
with the Giants; Burns OF Vermont and
sTierney of Lafayette were others who
stood out as professional prospects.
Among the college catchers there were
5ust two of top notch ratinz-f<enyon of
Georgetown and Cousineau Of Fordham.
who Is playing with Billy Gilbert's
Waterbury club In the Eastern League.
Kenyon was the better OF the two
Keefe. the Tufts backstop, was a fair
third. but behind the three named there
was no great class in go far as the major
league scouts opinions were concerned
Pecltham Of Brown had some boosters
and so did Herman OF Yale. now with
Reading. Herman is pronounced good
backstop but poor hitter.
This was no record breaking year for
rrst basemen in the "rah rah' ranks
The best of the lot were Sheedy OF
Georgetown and Driscoi of Catholic
University. owen Of Harvard was a
coach made first baseman and not at all
a natural ball player. OHearn Of Yale
was not exactly In his right position al
first. Raskin of G. G. N. Y. showed real
class Cooper Of Princeton was a fair
FIRST sackcr and 40 was Barnes Of Col
gate now with Rochester of the Interna-
Nonal League.
COMING TO the second basemen we
strike a list OF real stars--headed by