Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1913 — PLAYERS SIGNED TOO EARLY [ARTICLE]

PLAYERS SIGNED TOO EARLY

Arthur Duffey, Former Champion Sprinters Bays Youngsters Neglect Education to Play Ball. "It seems a shame to see so many schoolboys signing big league contracts,” says Arthur Duffey, the farmer champion sprinter- "The fact that an exceptional star makes, now and then, and his name fs heralded throughout the country, seems to serve as a magnet that draws on the youths, with their eyes blinded to all else. "There is no doubt," Duffey continues, "that professional ball playing l is an honorable and lucrative business, but if the youths woh sign contracts when they are hardly of age, would only continue their schooling, they Would be getting experience and education at the same time. If the reports of high school boys who have not made good, and are playing in some back-yard league, were given as much publicity as those of the stars who have made good, many of these buskers would have a profession to fall back on and an education that would stand by them all through their lives.”'