It was hard to tell who get more of a kick out of Stuffy McInnis, the fathers or the kids, when the head baseball coach spoke at a father and son meeting of the Harvard Mutual Benefit Association at Phillips Brooks House last night.
McInnis, who is in his second year at the University, looked back on his stint with the Philadelphia Athletics as a member of their famed $100,000 infield.
Warming up to his subject, MeInnis took a swipe at the off-season training tha is now necessary in so many sports. "In my day," said McInnis, "football was a fall sport, baseball was a spring sport, and the two didn't mix."
The Crimson coach emphasized the demands that baseball makes on the athlete in terms of skill and natural ability. "Football players can be made in a year," said McInnis. "Yoy can't do that in baseball."
McInnis later stated his policy of ever looking no candidates who turn out for his teams. He called to mind how the great Walter Johnson had nearly been passed up by big league scouts because he was an obscure sand-letter.
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