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Chicago News Reviews Indiana Ath letic Publication Edited by George M. Cook. The following comment on the re cent issue of tia “I! Men's Notes, qallished, for the former alleles of Indiana University by George M. Cook, president of the 1 Mars As sociation, is taken from the Clicare Daily News: the “F? men of Indiv. ning ib its latest il «7 from old sthlebes, f ive over seventy years 6 tie in the “Nogh's ‘ situds ke stone pes ‘2 males reader, who is {in syell equipmed gron cc | ‘oresns stadiums of ihe ' + covleges, bub the gania in cin lad A i have been no lost credi t days after the Civil War, you try what wnt old boys came back to college. M. A. McDonald, “father of base ball at Indiana,” told in the Notes ~how the game was started at Indiana. Wore No Gloves or Masks. “When I arrived at the Univer in 1866 everything pertaining to base ball was crude,” Mr. McDonald writes. “There were no revitative pats, no gloves, no hiss and no pads at shields of min land used. “The home plate was wiy kind of a piew of Mat for at ost any size, and the bases were hues sturved with hay or staan. fin batter's pavitionm wee deflavd; yor: sinsl sted at the bat Yuast oor way (he umpire said 1 Player finn it hia ova bat, ture oul od any tied of wom tha Feist ane, aieccol new lbaerth on Fanwieg, ‘he Lis off zouthaus, * Ras iy Hig Stee 2 ° eT of an areas Edin i The Yrs yee gh ‘The ww tee tem ain the sda Vise AL High peey ! as Tytne sod Tiowe I Toa w Gilid, Frank Hall, William Bynum, Homer Bothwell, Arthur Twineham and Shan non Nave, fielders. “McIntyre caught with bare hands behind the bat, without any protection of any kind except a pair of high topped boots, with his pants stuffed in the tans. He usually took off his boots when he came to bat and ran in his crooking feet. He was a corker. Was Polite to the Umpire. It was our genteel player and ¢s a gentleman. He wore vive, Clean clothes, and his shoes al ways Were polished. We addressed the umpire as “Mister, and said “thane you,” when handed « ray decision. yd University has had come wend teants in the last filly years, but perhaps ione has climbed higher to the lade of vame since they Jett ‘ the mevahers of teine Laehait eeb of the Usivere ely x + on We wed. 3 1etta de 3 Lalivig ta44 ag Peo Tle cet + + at 41 Hbetastes fo it Wh boyy,
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Bloomington Indiana Daily Student
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 26, 1917
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