Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-18
FOR WARDS PLACE.
The New York Base Ball Club En.
 gage Wagenhurst of the Prince.

| The New York Base Ball Club En- gage Wagenhurst of the Prince tons-Yale's Ease BaIl Interests. Elwood Wagsnhurst, former captain of
 the Princeton college base ball and football teams. has signed contract with the New
 York base ball club to play short stop in
 place of John M. Ward. Wagenhurst play
 ed third base for the Princeton team, and was with the Philadelphia club for a short time in the early part of last season. Harry l Wright considered him one of the coming players, but he was released by President Beach, who had the idea the club was carry ing too many men.
 Manager Mutrie was very much elated over | the capture that he has made and said to a
 Sun reporter:
 l "Wagenhurst is Q remarkably fine runner, batter and infielder. He is young and ambi-
 tious, which counts greatly in his favor. l
 have seen him play some fine games on third
 base, and I have no doubt that he will do 1 "Then you will put him in Wards places' l asked the reporter.
 l "Well, may give him 8 trial there," said | Jim, Gin case Ward does not play with us." 1 ''It was no easy thing to get this man." continued the hustling manager of the New | Works, 'tinasmueh as there were half dozen l other managers after him. This morning l when had everything fixed to telegraph to President Day, and he told me to go ahead. The result is already told" E. O. Wagenhurst is the son of an exten- l sive lumber dealer in western Pennsylvania, and member of the class of '8S in Prince 1 ton college. He is about five feet six inches l in height, of light complexion, with sandy hair and moustache. He is 8 remarkably powerfully built man, his shoulders and
  he pulled on the Varsity tug-of-war team and was one of the strongest men in college. He played football for three years, beginning with the scrub in his sophomore and ending with the captaincy of the eleven in his senior year. His base ball year was begun on his class nine. covering first base for two years with such efficiency that in his sophomore year he was looked upon by many as prom ! ising candidate for the Varsity. He did not join the nine. however, till his junior year, when he tried for third base, in | which position he played for the last two years of his course, being in his senior year | captain of the nine as well as of the football ! eleven. He was very sure batter and until his senior year, with one exception, the heav ! jest one on the nine, and was especially good at sacrifice hitting. He was always one of the hardest workers for the nine and covered large amount of ground, besides being very sure on throw as we'll as on a ground ball. His base running was on the whole poor, but showed marked signs of improvement during I his last year on the nine. He slid we'll, but tended to be independent of the coach and was | somewhat inclined to rattle. He also covered third base during the summer for the Cape May nine, which won the amateur champion ship of New Jersey, losing but three games during the entire season. His play this ! nine was much better than at any time while l in college and was characterized by hard and steady work.
 WILL IF HE BLUE OR CREMsONa Yale,s Chances for the Base Ball Cham pionship This Spring. The all absorbing topic among the college men at the present time is will Yale win the base ball championship or not9 There is an unusually large number of candidates for the team, and it seems as though nine good men might be picked from among them. Yale has got to work hard this year, be- cause they won't have "walk over." Harvard has at last walked up to the fact that if they don't wrest the championship from Yale this year they will have to take 8 back seat forever. Therefore they will make hard fight and endeaver to show Yale what they are made of.
 Bates and Henshaw are without doubt good battery, and if they take as much in- terest in their work and practice as hard as Stagg and Damn did last year they will make a very formidable battery for the "boys in blue'' to stand up before.
 Therefore it behooves the Yale boys to put hard, earnest work into their training, and enter into it with fixed determination not to let the crimson trample the blue in the dust.
 The men who helped Yale get there last year, and who are now ill college, are Stagg, Mcbride, Moves, McConkey, Calhoun. N. McClinteok and Dalzell. Stsgg will surely play, and it is earnestly hoped by his many friends that he will, for he has brought vie- tory to Yale for the last three years.
 Dalzell '91, Stokes 'S9, and Treadwell '91 are all good pitchers, and would make very creditable showing should Stagg decide not McClung '92 would like nothing better than to stand behind home plate and act as back stop.
 Mcbride go and Day 's9 S aspire to first base, but as Mcbride covered that position last spring so successfully he will probably play it this year.
 Day will undoubtedly get some other posi- sition, as he is good baseman and a first
 ,s batter. Moves will play short. It is
 ,t necessary to say anything about him, for everybody knows what he can do.
 Calhoun '91 has played short and second, anu ls Soou paIter. 1N. AoOAntoch anu A. G. McClintock will be given chance, as al- so will Traver '89 s., who played on their freshman team last spring. Zeublin T. S. Parker. ". H. McClintock, Huntington, Harvey Sullivan, Tilsoa, Jones and Ferrandein are also very anxious to represent the university on the diamond this summer.
 Everybody hopes that the boys won't go into the training this year with the idea that they can beat Harvard anyway just because it has been done for the last three years, for Harvard means to make one final effort to beat Yale, and she will do everything in her power to do so.
 and he will work to the best of his ability to bring the crimson to the front, and if any, body can do it Clarkson is that person. If Yale works hard and Stagg consents to pitch we think they can beat Harvard, Clarkson & Company.