Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-06

After sizing up his candidates he
announced that they were too puny to
make a foot ball team worthy of
Lafayette. Something had to be done
to build them up. He suggested manual
labor. The candidates paled a little at
the suggestion, but there ives no sacri-
nee that they would not make for the
alma mater.
With the start of the Summer vaca-
tons nearly all the members Of the
Lafayette foot ball squad got jobs as
members of a pick and shovel gang. A
few slackers got light work es steve
dores and one or two went to the steel
mills. But the others are in their
bitches picking or Shoveling for dear
old Lafayette. Let the foot ball squad
Of Rutgers tie this for devotion.
Sharing Educated Ivory.
THERE seems to be some agitatio
i on the part of somebody because
the ivory hunters from the big leagues
are invading the college campus seeking
their prey. In several instances they
seem to be finding it. Col. Jacob Rup-
pert, who has reserve ivory all over the
country, has just looted Holy Cross of
the most promising pitcher Of the sea-
son.
l1lOSC WIZ ifOiY
on the collegiate reserves point to
the fact that Mr.. C. G. Pyle and
the other gentlemen who tried to
professionalism intercollegiate foot
ball never signed a player until he
was ready to be graduated. They
made this agreement with the COL
leges to stave off criticism. But
when a base ball scout sees a good
prospect he apparently strikes him
down and drags him on before he
can finish his education.
If the collegian really is destined to
become a big Lacquer, this part OF 1t is
immaterial. After one season with the
big league he will become just a base
ball player. 1t would not matter II he
were permitted TO remain long enough
in college to take postgraduate
course and make his Phi. D. He would
be trading his Phi Beta Kappa key for
a pair of galloping dice or a pinochle
deck at the first training camp.
But what the scouts should not do Is
to sign a college player and permit him
to play for the alma mater under cover
for the remainder of the college sea-
son. There have been instances where
q player signed by a big league club
has been permitted to finish his college
course in base ball The big league
magnates might be fair enough to an
nounce the fact when they sign col
1ege player, since the players themselves
are not so frank. .t.
The Rising of ODOul.
Mr.. Francis Xavier ODoul, now a
leading batsman Of the National
League, once was believed to have. In
dian blood in his veins. While he was
81 "a Maui Vnrk Vonk0HS
the legend spread that Mr. ODoul was
a lineal descendant Of Sitting Bull, the
sedentary Sioux.
I recall that the great part of the
three years service he put in with the
Yankees was spent on the bench. MT.
Miller Higgins told him when he first
Joined the team that he would have to
sit IL out on the same bench II 1t took
q whole year. It took three, and moth
ing seems to come OF 1t.
Only the wardrobe man OF the
Yankees can tell just how many pairs
of uniform trousers MIR. O'Doul wore
out while sitting, and he would not
like to divulge any Of the inside stuff.
And after the second year Mr.. O'Doul
became so accustomed tontsitting that
he used to carry his own little bench
with him during the off season. Tt
dawned on him that Mr.. Higgins
desired earnestly that he become
proficient in sitting, so he constantly
practiced.
Before the end of the service with the
Yankees he could outsit any citizen Of
st. Petersburg, Fla, in finish contest.
He became so accustomed to sitting that
he found it almost impossible to stand
even during the playing Of the national
anthem, which happens once year at
the base ball parks
Now that he is with the Phillies, it
seems that when he asked them when
he was supposed to start sitting they
told him that what they desired was to
see him start hitting. So Mr.. Francis
xavier O,Doul started to hit with the
same earnestness with which he used to
sit. Mr.. Higgins was guilty Of typo
graphical error. He might have meant
hit, but he never made 1t clear.
The GentIer Reactions.
a BOSTON base ball writer, studying
n the reaction Of women to the ma
tional pastime, notes that members OF
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