Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1914 — YALE MEN RECEIVE OFFERS [ARTICLE]

YALE MEN RECEIVE OFFERS

“Long" John Reilly and Harr^William Le Gore Expected to Play With Some Big League Team. ■1 , /

Two Yale baseball players will wear big league uniforms within a year. At least they have received several offers and one of them admits that he expects to accept one of the bids. The pair are "Long” John Reilly, the Yale third baseman, and Harry William Le Gore, who has been called the most promising baseball player who has entered Yale in twenty years. He comes from Mercersburg academy, where he was captain of the baseball, football and basket-ball teams. He is a shortstop, and has been elected captain of the freshman nine. His home Is in Le Gore, Md. He was .fullback on the freshman football eleven and made a record as drop kicker. He has received an offer of $4,000 a year frorq Connie Mack, and is likely to accept the offer after he finishes his Yale car reer. He is not eligible for the varsity this season, but will have three years at shortstop before he leaves college. He has averaged one home run and three hits in every game yet played for the freshmen.

Reilly is the star of the present Yale Learn, tie is Datnng lor ana is a whirlwind at the dizzy corner. He is easily the leading third baseman of the intercollegiate arena. Last year he led the Yale nine at the bat. He has offers from the New York Nationals and Americans, the Philadelphia Athletics and both Boston nines. His home is in Brockton, and he is a brother of Barney Reilly, the former Chicago White Sox, and of Jim Reilly, the former Yale halfback and left fielder. Reilly will almost certainly captain the Yale nine next season, after which it is whispered that hp will probably be found in a New York uniform. McGraw is said to have made him the greatest offer ever tendered to any college player. He was not inclined to play professionally till this offer, rumored to be about $5,000, was made him, but it is said to have led him to think more seriously of ultimately becoming a professional.