Evening star., 1937-04-11
Former College Players
Are Congress Athletes
Spring Training Starts for Annual Cham
pionship Base Ball Contest of Legislators
With Press Club and Gallery.

! Kansas, where he caught. The pitcher
was Dale Gear, for many years presi-
dent of the Western League, and who
as manager Of the Kansas City Blues
in 1898, won the pennant
Representative Richard P. Richards,
South Carolina, was captain of base
ball, played foot ball and was presi-
dent of the athletic association at his
State university.
Representative D. Worth Clark,
Idaho, played some foot ball at Notre
Dame, but INDUCED mostly in gym
work.
Representative Charles A. Halleck,
Indiana, played football at Indiana
University and was known as little,
but mighty"
Representative Edouard Victor
Michel lac of California, was dis.
tinguished for swimming and tennis
and played baseball as a plebe at
Annapolis.
Representative Warren G. Magnu-
son, Washington, played foot ball at
the University of Washington, and
packed" ice to develop his muscles
and live.
Representative Emmet O'Neal Ken
lucky, played foot ball. basket ball and
base ball at Centre College and part
OF the time was captain.
Representative A. Willis Robertson,
Virginia, played tackle on the Univer-
Slty OF Richmond eleven and was also
on the track, tennis and boxing teams.
Representative Frank W. Towley,
| Jr., New Jersey, was an all-around
athlete at Holy Cross College.
Representative George B. Kelly, New
York, is best at tennis, but good at all
outdoor games.
Representative Aaron L. Ford, Mis-
slssippi, played foot ball at Cumber-
land University.
Representative Alfred N. Phillips,
| jr., is an adept at badminton and
good at all outdoor sports, skiing, ten
mis-, swimming, yachting and fox hunt
! ing.
Representative D. Culkin, New
York, is noted yachtsman.
r REPRESENTATIVE JAMES w.
WADSWORTH, Jr, played base
ball and hockey from his early youth,
and at the age of II was an amateur
member of the Geneseo, N. Y, team.
He played first base at Yale and was
nominated by Walter Camp in 1898
for first base on the all-America
, nine. At one time he had seven uni
Verslty base ball captains on the
hometown team his father, a former
Congressman, organized away back in
the 70s.
Representative Eugene j. Keogh,
New York, is hand ball player from
the Crescent Club, Brooklyn.
Representative William M. Citron.
Connecticut, is another hand ball
artist.
Representative William B. Barry
New York, throughout his school and
college days played basket and base
ball.
Representative James A. Shanley,
Connecticut, was on the Yale base ball
squad ana holdS the world record for
100 yards in 80 seconds. He coached
the New Haven Boys Club and turned
out big time hockey and base ball
players.
Representative Joseph E. Casey.
Massachusetts, played base ball at Bos-
ton University and was on the con-
gressional nine two years ago.
Representative Frank w. Fires, nli-
nois, a former coal miner, is a good
boxer.
Representative Laurence F. Arnold,
Illinois, was a star pitcher for the
University of Michigan.
Representative Millard F. Caldwell,
Florida, played basket ball, was a foot
ball tackle and pitched for the Uni.
versity of Mississippi and the Univer-
sity of Virginia.
That's an answer to-"What be-
comes of the college athlete?"