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Show HAROLD GRANGE TO TRY OUT BASEBALL Illinois Football Star Out for Chance on Diamond. Harold Grange, the University of Illinois football phenom, is out for baseball. He earned 16 letters In high schools four In each of the major sports. Ills best sport then as now was football, then in order came basketball, track and' baseball, but he will limit his college athletic activities to two sports. He was a halfback in football. In the court game he played forward and occasionally center. He was an excellent ex-cellent dribbler and a good shot under un-der the basket. He relied more on , speed than on stops, turns and dodges. Grange usually won seven firsts In j the high school track meets. His specialties were the three short dashes, Harold Grange. both hurdles and the high and broad Jumps. In baseball he played third base and once In a while covered first. At Illinois be will try for the outfield. Grange competed In the Inter scholastic track meet at Illinois lu 1020, 1021 and 1922. The first year he tied for first In the high Jump, was third In the 100-yard dash, and fourth In the 220-yard dash. The next spring he took two first places, copping the century dash in 0:10 :02 and the broad Jump with a leap of 21 feet 5 inches. In 1922, his senior year, he led the field In the 220-yard dash in 0:23:02 and was third in the 100-yard dnsh. As a freshman at Illinois Orange set the campus astir In the 1923 indoor in-door intramural track meet when he annexed 17 points and single-handed won the meet for his fraternity. |
