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Show HARVARD STAR MAY, JOIN BRAVES Eddie Mahan Undecided as to j Course He Will Take May Sign With Haughton. Boston, Jan. 19. There is slight chance that Boston sport followers will lose sight of Eddie Mahan, Harvard's Har-vard's athletic Idol, after his graduation grad-uation from Harvard In June, for the possibility of his joining the Boston Braves is regarded as a fairly safe bet. Mahan is slated for tho big leagues, if he cares to take the jump, and there Is only ono other field of endeavor that has the same attraction attrac-tion with him as professional baseball. That Is football coaching. When he gets his degree at Harvard Har-vard in June, Mahan will be a free agent unshackled of al amateur restrictions re-strictions and the like. He may then choose to do as Jie wishes In the way of earning a yearly wage. Because of the close association of Percy D. Haughton -and Mahan, It is likely that the football star will give his former coach the prior right to claim him as an employee, if Haughton wishos to. Mahan has ono more season of college col-lege baseball to go through before he will have finished his athletic work at Harvard. Next month he will answer an-swer the preliminary call for battery candidates for the varsity ball team, and report for work each day. As a result of his stady work in tho pitcher's pitch-er's box last year, Mahan Is slated to bo one of Harvard's pitching mainstays main-stays during the coming season. To preserve his amateur status, however, Eddie must hold aloof from all binding bind-ing contracts, and so there Is no chance of his signing up with the Braves of any other major league ball club until late next Juno, when the last of the Yale-Harvard baseball games has been played. A year ago Charley Brlckley was In a similar position, for he had been offered the head coaching job at Johns Hopkins Brlckley came to an understanding with the Baltimore col-lego col-lego and signed no contract until after aft-er the Harvard baseball season came to a close. Mahan has promised to sign with no team as yet He has not made up his mind exactly as to what he will do when ho leaves college. He has received re-ceived many good offers to be football foot-ball coach at universities and colleges in the south and west, but so far he has not revealed his Inclination. Unless Un-less tho professional baseball lure proves stronger, he may go into coaching. coach-ing. nn |