Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-03-17
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College teams are jealous of those
institutions suspected of getting pupils
with n view to playing good bali than
for advancing them in scholarship.
The latest outbreak of this character
is r, fincted in Westminster dispatch
to the Baltimore Sun of Tuesday:
Athletic interests at Western Maryland
College are greatly concerned in the an
nouncement that William Spates, well
known pitcher from Frostburg, has left to
enter St. Johns College. This is coupled
here with news from the Maryland AgriCul-
tural College that a pitcher from Calvert
county named Hamilton entered as student
there about the last of February. The next
meeting of the intercollegiate Athletic
League of Maryland is scheduled to take
place on March II and probable action on
these cases is looked forward to with interest
Th"re is an opportunity here to
draw hair-llne between real and sup
posed intentions on both the part of
pupil aud college. That is to say,
a boy, already an expert pitcher, can
not avail himself of liberal college
terms on account of his skill and the
college must be content with the base
ball mediocrity that falls to it in the
regular course.
Would it not be better for the Inter
collegiate Athletic League to endow
ali its constituent schools with the
privilege or discovering pitchers and
trading educational opportunities and
facilities for their skill rather than en-
Joy the poor immunity of denying each
to the other, thus robbing the play of
skill and the player Of higher edu
cationP
The Scorer writes the following
very interesting report of the situa
ton:
AS yet there is little or nothing doing in
the way of getting the team in shape for the
coming season.
1t is reported on the streets that the y. NJ.
G. y. will organize and equip team, and it
Is also said that the st. Michaels club will
have a team in the field under the manage
ment of 4. J. Donohue As both organi-
cations have several members of last years
team and can, with proper management,
have pretty strong clubs, there ought to be
good base ball this season and lots of it.
Soon as the weather permits the Park AS
ISOLATION will put the grounds in proper con-
dltion and do every thing possible to encour-
age the sport.
Midland, Homecoming, Meyersdale and,
possibly, the "polluted' town of Cumber-
land will each have strong team. So the in
dicatons are good for the enjoyment of play
res, roOters and cranks.
LusGy, of last years team, has signed to
play in Portsmouth, Va, the coming season,
and his side partner, Wallie Warren, also of
last years team, is with Oxford team of
North Carolina. Both gentlemen are players
friends here who wish them the success they
deserve.
Wolf as yet has not signed with the Bing
hamton team of n. Y, where he played last
season, as he is expecting something better in
the Eastern League.
Tom Smith, of "Coney,' expects to have
the 'top-notchers" of Georges Greek and is
getting in shape at this early day. A fair is
in progress down thee the proceeds Of which
are to be donated to equipping the ball team
and a good round sum Is expected to be real
Ized. The fair closes Saturday, March 81.
Entler, of last years Midland team, will, |
understand, play i'll FrOstburg this season.
Fred" is an A pitcher-one of the best
that ever stood on the slab in this locality
His work last season against such strong
teams as Rockville, Homestead, Huntington,
Frostburg and others certainly place him at
the very top of the list am sure he will be
a great acquisition to the team that is fortu
nate enough to procure his services.