New Britain herald., 1929-04-04
SCOUTS SEEKING COLLEGE PLAYERS
Will Look Oyer Teams During the Spring and Summer Season

New York, April 1 P-Sharp- eyed fans at college baseball game $ soon may see several oNercoatcd men Of middle age watching the youns athletes perform and trying at the same time 10 keep warm Their glance at the fingers would show ov- idences of much baseball played two or three decades ago. They are scouts
 Every major league baseball club has from one to half a dozen scout S who ride the "rattlers" all summer long. looking a: base bali players on somi-pr teams and in the minor l. agues. Some Of the scouts are in the southern training camps assist ing tho managers in separating the base ha II sheep from the goats but attendance at college games for q month or more.
 Not that we expect 10 get any big roundup of players from these colleges said one Of the old scout 4 as he packed his bag for his first expedition Of tho y.ar. but looking at inc rollegians will get us in shape for the long grind when the weather gets hot There's no lso going out to the minors until they have been go- ing for month or six weeks and you never can tell Whor" you may sec a bah plaNr
 '1he collesers are tough. though for when you sec a fellow you think might be q major leaguc ball player some day. the chances are his fath- er doesn't want him 10 play. or he nauts 10 study medicine or some thiu-.
 "Auothcr thing. You hear people talk about colos" ball players in the major leagues and they name a long list. 4o or 5o or more. They are not coIIcg" ball players They are, or rather they were. minor l"ague players Of courS" they went 10 col le.e but after d trial by the ma iors they wer" sent out, or maybe they went first 10 q minor league cluo and then came up.
 "I haven't counted ''m. but I'll bet there are not more than q dozen players in the two big leagues who went 10 ma ior clubs from college and have ben in the majors ever since"
 The old scout waS not far wrong. ty Williams Of the Ihllics joined the Chicago Cubs in 1912, fresh from Notr" Damc, and hah been around ever since. George Sjslcr wen 10 the st. Louis Browns from Michigan in 1915 and two years later Joe Dugan left Holy Cross for the Athletics. Frankie Frisch left off at fordham and took up with the New York Giants in 1919 and Bib F'alk joined the Chicago White SoN from the University of Texas in 1921. Tom Zachary went 10 the Athletics from Guilford college III 1918. pitching only two games. how ever. He bobed up with the Wash ington Senators the next year. Eppa RiXey Was graduated from the | l1NtTSllN Ol NITSIllld to tIjC llilllltS in 1912. Bob Reeves went from Georgia Tech to Washington in 1926. None of these players is now with the club of his first major league allegiance.
 Three players have been with only one jor league outfit after leaving college, Pete Donahue. Texas Chris tian University and Cincinnati; Luke Seyen. University of Alabama and Cleveland: and Ted Lyons. Baylor University and the Chicago White SoX.
 Eddie Collins. an alumnus Of Col um bia, played one week with New ark in 1907. after joining the Ath- lctics in 1906.
 Melvin Ott of the Giants never at tended college but he went the col lcge boys one better by breaking into the fold of the New York Giants from d high school at Gretna. La, in 1925. when he was 1G years