Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-11-19 | Page 2 | Pipp Says Baseball is Great Sport for Youngsters

Pipp Says Basel) J Is Great Sport For Youngsters NEW YORK, Nov. 18 Walter Fipp, the first baseman of the Yankee's thinks baseball is the greatest business busi-ness in the world for a young man. "The reason baseball is the bost, fairest anu squarest oi an proiessiona and callings," said Pipp, "is because it puts success up to the young man himself. "Pull, family prestige, money, 'glad-handing,' 'glad-handing,' lodges, fraternities, luck, a thousand things may help the young man to success in the learned professions profes-sions and In commerce. "No ono and nothing save himself can help the young man in baseball. "A father may set his son up in a great business. Mr. Rockefeller has ' handed, or will hand, over his business busi-ness to his son, who may conduct it well. "Not all the woalth of Rockefeller could hold a job for his son on a major league baseball team. "Take the great army wo are getting up, I notice that scores of big politicians poli-ticians statesmen, if you will have got fino Jobs for their sons. No doubt, the young men nro capablo and worthy; wor-thy; but father's 'pull' landed them on top at onde."