, 1923-05-20
COLLEGES RESENT
SCOUTS SHARING
STAR PLAYERS
Major League Agents In
wade Classroom.
BY HUGH

Invasion Of the ranks OF the colleges
by out for the major league teams
seeking material and incidentally the
big prices that are being offered the
discoveries OF baseball talent, has
brought about a strained feeling Dor
dering on open resentment In the
colleges-
Charges that some of the scouts for
major league teams have been invading
the campus, the classroom, and even
the rooms in the dormitory with offers
calculated to tempt the boys TO desert
and go into professional ball.
The Indignation on the part OF some
of the coaches and faculty representa-
lives has become so great that recently
the gates of one large university were
closed against two scouts who had
been pursuing a player persistently-
Georgetown university faculty has
taken the stand for years that the
students there should be discouraged
and warned against going into profess
sional baseball at least until after their
college courses were completed. and
W at graduation they are informed
that their instructors consider it a
waste of time to play ball profession
ally. and that, in the long IN. they
will not profit.
Griffith Against Tempting Players.
Clark Griffith. owner Of the Washing
ton club. has conferred with the
Georgetown leaders and agrees with
them that the tempting OF college play
ers Is wrong. His team never has APP
preached n Georgetown player. Yet
thtg aQnuar gaHrarn1 u11fNNa lu.r. ,--g-f
ed in approaching players OF thai in
stitution.
It is known that two Princeton play
ers have been approached. that efforts
have been made to sign Huntzinger.
Penn's star pitcher; Cutter. the Brown
shortstop. who has been incapacltated
recently with n broken leg: that Seim-
endinger Of Holy Cross, Carroll of tho
came institution, and Carney. Prince
toms I left handler, have been
looked over" by major league scouts.
1t 1t known, too. that no fewer than
three of Knute Rockne's best players
at Notre Dame nave been approached,
that two Ohio State men have been
offered tryouts, and II is stated ut La
fayettc hat three, n perhaps four,
OF the players there are to enter tho
professional field. Gehrig, tho terrific
hitter OF the Columbia team; sheedy,
Georgetown's first baseman: Foley OF
Boston college, and others have been
sounded out with tentative offers.
Discourage Pro Baseball.
The majority OF the colleges dlscour@
age boys from entering baseball as n
profession. but make no active resist
ence unless the temptation is placed
before an undergraduate to get him to
quit school mi play ball before finish
ing his course. Yet In their eagerness
to find promising material and because
of the scarcity Of good players, they
are swarming upon the colleges.
Aside from Florence, Georgetown:
Sheedy OF the same school; H%untzinger.
Penn; Carroll, Holy Cross; Cutler
Of Brown. and Gehrig OF Columbia. 1
have no seen n player in the eastern
schools who could make good in the
majors without much more experience,
and perhaps not then. Even those
named would require a year or more of
seasoning.
The coaches are Justified IN their
stand against the raids of the major
league coaches upon the undergrad
uates, and 1t is probable the major
lengues will be forced to agree to keen
hands on the college athletes until
they have finished their courses.