Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — Jones Turns Down Harvard. [ARTICLE]

Jones Turns Down Harvard.

Fielder Jones, former leader of the Chicago White Sox, has been offered the position of professional coach for the Harvard university baseball team next spring. Harvard is taking up the professional coaching plan for the first time in its history. Yale, Pennsylvania. Dartmouth, Princeton and other schools long ago adopted the professional plan. Jones, who la heavily interested in Oregon timber lands, was forced to decline the proposition on account of his buslnes*. —Harvard has several other baseball stars in view for the position, but wantad Fielder first of all. Last year Jones coached the Oregon Agricultural college and whip ped a green bunch of material Into • championship team.