Miller Huggins, Microscopic Manager of the New York Americans, Finds College Men Poor Big League Material

"College baseball players, generally speaking don't make good big league players," said Miller Huggins, diminutive manager of the New York Yankees American League Champions in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "I don't say that no college players have proven successful in the league, but I do believe that but very few of them have. True, on the Yankees, we have several good former college men (I myself am a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and of Cincihnati Law School) but they are scarce. For this there are, in my mind, several important reasons. In the first place, college men come into the baseball game with an entirely wrong attitude. In college they have played for the honor of their school and for the self fame it might bring them. In major league baseball we play for business; to make money. Those men who play in college play for recrestion, and not as a duty. They do not have to work hard; they play. Men on a major league team work very bara every day or they soon lose out. Consequently when college graduates come into organized baseball, they find it very difficult to get down to the hard strain of every day playing."

Commenting on the possibilities of his club's winning another American League pennant this year, he said, "I should say that the team which beats the Philadelphia Athletics this year will win out. I think the Yanks have as good a chance of doing that as has any other team, but further I cannot predict. I can assure you, however, that the Yanks will again try hard to win the pennant."

Asked to comment on some of the men well known in baseball, he said, "Cobb and Speaker are going to have another big year. However, it is well to remember that there is an age limit to this game. Babe Ruth is in good condition this year, and should continue to be our biggest drawing card, and to hit his regular quota of home runs."

Questioned as to what American League player is likely to be adjudged the most variable to his team this year, the Yankee leader quickly answered. "I have no way of knowing, but I imagine it will be someone in the pitching line."