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Show I Mysterious Mitchell Now Coach Noted A thlete Has Va ried Time Formerly Coached Logan Aggies Introducing Fred Walker"; uiia Slyaterlona Mitchell. the Burton Holmes of the athletlb clan Fred Walker, If he need SI) intro-ductlon. intro-ductlon. i first lieutenant o Ajnoa Alonzo Stags:. field marshal of the University of Chicago Athlon- coach -in faculty, Kred helped nut in foot- ball, is aaslatihg with basketball, mtl will probably add baseball to hla duties la the spring, and all tin- time he is going to ckw;-es every day on the campus in Ref his degree. 14 Yl m:- BE I W I l v LASS -Walker left bollego In "he Spring of 190". Just one year tdiort of 'gradua-1 'gradua-1 (toil. In fourteen yea it lie has hud one ot the most assorted careers granted any Chicago athlete. He has been from cms; to eo.'.M as player. BOhoh, and athletic director. i filled with the wanderlust, who utile ut-ile ways look i forward to as the one of jr Jt take-, htm twenty -minutes to count up the positions he has held II each of which he has left when a "'- I r r one loomed up. And after four-! teen v ci s of roaming Walker is hack in college, studying biblical literature, political economy, and psycheloc . un der professors who eunu- to the Mid," 1 way long after Fred's career as a Chi cago athlete had passed lito history. i i AS I S - l UN I i After three ears id football under Stagg in 1964, 19lK. and 1968, twice as half back and once as all-Western end, three years Of base ball on the I '. slab, and one season of basketball, w iikcv went to Utah Agricultural "'Ml lege In hla first professional position posi-tion as athletic director in 1907, wh ri he coached all four major sports. In: the fall of 19 09 he came back to as-1 sist Stagg in football. His next exploration w a to the South, where he turned out .1 sec-, tlonal champion in baseball at l'nt-( vorsity of Mississippi in the spring of; 1910. That summer l'red was picked up by the Giants and took his turn on the slab with Christy .lnthewron and McGraw's staff of hurlers. Fredi needed a bi more season jnc and wns shipped to the San Kranclseo coast league team in the early autumn, where he had a brief but spectacular career, as "Myaterlout Mitchell-WITH Mitchell-WITH i I I I l v Mi I 1912 That winter he coached track aud 1 basketball at the San Francisco V. j M. C. A., and in the spring Jumped to I a position as baseball coaeh at Oregon Ore-gon Agricultural col , ! In the summer of 1912 he was back i In the big leagues again, pitching for the Cleveland Indians, and when f.ill came on he mot cd to Carnegie To at Pittsburg to coach football, wind-ing wind-ing up the year back at Ban Fran-Cisco, Fran-Cisco, where he turned out a lightweight light-weight championship basketball five. The next summer he was back in the big leagues with the Brookln i Nationals, spent ihe lull at the Cat in gle again, and the Winter In PitW- j burg, jiIun ing professional basketball basket-ball PITCHES ! u I EDI a i II G l In 1914 he mail'" In- debUl In the i.r. iderui league pitching for Pitusburg. and in the lull hid new position, assistant to Condi Hub FoJ-well FoJ-well in football al Washington and Jefferson college. In 1910 he Wilt traded to the Brooklyn Federal i league team and w intered In Pitte-I Pitte-I l urg with another professional basketball bas-ketball team. ' In 1916 he saw servlic in the New York Slate league, flist with Albany and then with L'ttc.i. where he wpO twenty-fivn games with a taii end club. " In four months l'red jdtlhed m fortyelght games and won tb name dfound the circuit as "Old Iionarm." In Ihe fall he whs back helping Stagg for a few weeks during dur-ing football. In the spring of 1917 he was assistant as-sistant to Pat PaKe with the Maroon !arslty nine and spent the summer back in tin Pas,, urst with Plica and then with New Hoven. the Eastprn league champion. I . i m ill - ll.l.l i I i I N That fall he coached focftball at , Williams college, w here he developed I Benny Boynlon. the crack quarterback.' quarter-back.' His Williams team did not lose a game and wound up the season with the first w!u over Cornell In I many a t : For the sake of variety, in the win-tor win-tor of 191 S Walker senr tn Dartmouth Dart-mouth as basketball coach, and then was appointed athletic director for :the Second Naval, district, with head-' head-' quarters at New put t. After the ar-mlstlce ar-mlstlce he went to Rhode island State 'college und succeeded in putting throe - ins ovrr Brown, the first for thai school In twenty-five years in the ; summer he pitched for New Haven agaln. and in the fall was made athletic ath-letic director of New York State Agricultural 'coll -i 1 l FOB RED SOX Iast year he acted as scout foi lh Boston Red Sox. touring the bushes i In search of a new ivory crop for Manager Ed Barrows. and it was , from that pnMinin that In .nimped ! 'return to Stagg and to finish the one year of coOegUitc work needed for o diploma. Walker's record for fourteen years 'showy ,i plii 'lumen. il mi-dl-v uf nnsi-I nnsi-I lions'. Fred has been on the trail foi so long that he lias forgotten where his home Is. And when he gets his college degree he probabjy will catch 'the first train out again, off to a new Ijob that will take him to some far otner of the country, where he will teach young fellown the art of the 'orop kick, the proper form for free ';hrows, or how to control the curve ball. |