Beaver County News | 1916-09-15 | Page 5 | Giants Favor College Men

GIANTS FAVOR COLLEGE MEN Former Yale Football Star Is Latest Acquisition Stafford and Smith Also Signed. College stars are swelling the ranks of the Giants these days. "Pie" Way, former football and baseball base-ball star at Yale, is the latest to join the club. Infielder Stafford, former captain of the Tufts nine also reported recently and George Smith, star pitcher pitch-er for the Columbia team, is now a member of McGravv's squad. Way is a pitcher. He worked an exhibition ex-hibition game against the Giants last summer and impressed Manager Mc-Graw Mc-Graw with his work. Way achieved wide fame on the gridiron last fall by grabbing a fumble and running for a touchdown that won the game from Princeton. Stafford comes with a record of extra ex-tra heavy hitting with the Tufts team. He ployed four years with the club, and captained it during the past college col-lege season. Smith starred on the mound for Columbus, Co-lumbus, and s highly recommended by Coach Andy Coakley and Mike lon-lin, lon-lin, who have watched his work ciose-