Charles Bartliff played forward for Christian Brothers’ College in the 1904 Olympic soccer tournament. Bartliff also played baseball with CBC and was the captain of the CBC baseball team. After playing with Diels in the Association Football League in 1905, Bartliff played professional baseball for five seasons – with the Coffeyville Bricks in the Kansas State League in 1906, the Oskaloosa Quakers in the Iowa League of Professional Baseball Clubs in 1907, the New Bedford Whalers in the New England League in 1908, the Freeport Pretzels in the Wisconsin-Illinois League in 1909, and with the Milwaukee Brewers in the American Association in 1910. In early 1910s, Bartliff moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he continued to play baseball with various local clubs and in the early 1920s moved to Akron, Ohio, where he operated the Diamond Billiards Parlor.