New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Recruits Battling for Places With Yankees
Have Much to Recommend Them for Majors

more year. He was also a jumper,
pole yaulter, gridiron star, baseball
player and anything else that was open
for entries.
After two seasons at Lebanon Valley
Henry Luther went to Penn State and
developed rapidly into Hinkey Haines,
the 1920 shining light of the gridiron
in the backfeld Of Hugo Bezdek's great
team. He played two varsity seasons
with the football, baseball and basket
bali teams, was captain of the ball
tossers and led the team in hitting
with meager .416 for his best eff
forts. After graduation last summer
he Joined the Yankees for q brief stay.
At the request of Miller Higgins be
Joined the Hartford team of the East
ern League, ulaying the outfield, and
he batted Just over the 300 mark
Haines weighs 40 pounds, is feet 9
inches tall, and smiles regularly. Hug
gins just dotes on his fielding and
spends whole nights praying that the
boy can hit. Win, lose or draw at base
ball, he will be assistant coach to Hugo
Bezdek at Penn State this coming foot
ball season.
Another Versatile Performer
Harrisburg, Pa, has the honor of
beng the birthplace of Glenn KILN
ger, the Penn State All-American
quarterback of 1921. Killinger was
born September 13, 1898, and is now
twenty three years old, about 5 feet 10
inches tall, weighs l7O pounds or
thereabouts, has a quiet disposition
and is good feeder. He went to Har-
risburg Tech School, where he got his
first gridiron experience by being a
substitute in his senior year on the
worst football team the institution ever
had He was, however, a regular on
the basketball team
After being graduated from this high
school in 1916 "Klly" gave up higher
education temporarily and worked one
year for his father in the hardware
business at the magnificent remunera-
alton of SO per week. His father still
claims he was overpaid. In 1917 the
youngster went to Penn State, where
he walked out on the gridiron in his
freshman year and stayed there until he
was graduated. playing four years of
varsity football. He played three sea-
sons with the basketball quintet, was
captain in his last year, and a member +
of the 1920 team that defeated the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania intercollegiate
championship team on its home floor.
kllllnger started playing baseball in
his sophomore year, decorating the
varsity inheld for three seasons at
Penn State. Outside of these accom- :
plishments and Being a good swimmer,
boxer and all-around athlete. he is
helpless at sports. He hopes to sticl.
with the Yankees and claims he would
be six feet tall if he got his bow legs
straightened
Tecarr a Side-Wheeler
One of the few real New York boys at
tached to the pay roll of the American
League champions is Bob Tecarr, the
tall, dark skinned, portsided pitcher re-
Gently purchased from Jersey City, OF
the international League. Tecarr was
born in the wilds Of Harlem. some
where along 10th Street, October %
1895. At the age of four he had learned
enough to make him forsake that part
of the town, and he moved to the
higher realms Of Brooklyn, where he
grew up, played semi professional ball
and worked as a clerk in a wholesale
grocery concern. He used to run up
against Waite Hoyt once in while
and was the only pitcher to defeat the
Lincoln Giants three out of four
games with that dusky ace, Williams
on the mound for the Senegambians
he i4i ot iCdi tllSdSciHciiO tHdo L e
carr received was with Bert Maxwell
former manager of the Brooklyn Feds
who took Bob to New Haven in 1915
Tecarr did not remain there, however
as he found he could make more money
by working in the Chevrolet factory
at Tarrytown and playing ball for that
team. incidentally, he married and settled
down in Tarrytown and has three anG
one-half year old boy scamperine
around the house, with baby girl al
his heels. In 1920 Tecarr pitched fol
the Catholic Club, Of Tarrytown, ana
went from there to Jersey City. Last
year he won nineteen games and lost
twenty with a tail-end club, which is
volume in itself Tecarr is just Sin
feet tall and weighs about 1870 pounds
He has battled his way to the front
through some rough going, and his
gears are still set at third speed for
ward
JoI.cy Not Misnomer
I 1t is hard to belieyi' that this huge