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Show FOOTBALL RUINS MORE BALL STARS THAN PILLOW SLIPS PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 25. Walter HcCredle say:; ho likes to take in a college game now and then', but he shudders every time a couple of pla -I ers collide in midflcld. Not that he is pitying the players-, especially. He's pitying baael.all n.ore He says foo: -ball has ruined more Kood baseball prospects than all the oil low slips in1 the word. The University of Oregon, in Dud- , lev larki , oiiii- had one nf lie most i promising ypqug baseball players l ever saw," said .Mat-. "He was fast, IS xood fielder, and be ould certain!) slam the pellet. He would have been a star, probably in the big league at I a big salary. If he had come with i Portland when l n ied to cet him. But diatlce wouldn't come! He had a ; couple more years of football and wanted 16 play out his lime Two or three years after he signed with one of the teams in the Northwestern leafcne, iut couldn't make good. Foot- j ball had ruined him for baseball. He had a game 'ankle or so and his legs could nut stand the xtrain. I "So far as I know only one great ollege football player has made a great baseball player Thai was Christy Mathewson. who was a star tin the backfield for.Bucknell college before he Joined the cjiants. Neab. , who was with thjE Cincinnati Reds, vtas a football player, but it has hurt bis baseball;',' |