The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-02-09
COLLEGE ATHLETES
BEGIN At BASEBALL
Yale and Princeton CandE-
dates in the Field.
ELLIS PROSPECTS BRIGHT
Game the Main Topic of Interest at
the Big Observation-Disclosures
Look Good.

/ Baseball IS now the main interest z T.
the big colleges. for the large univer-
. stiles have either begun baseball prac-
I tee or are just about TO do so Plans
for the year and the seasons schedules
have in most cases been decided on, and
! from now on all efforts will be devoted
10 developing fTst-eIass teams. Yale,
( Harvard. Princeton Cornell and Penn
syivania are those in which work on
the diamond is the center of athletic in
terest just at present.
/ Yale baseball begins this week with
unusually excellent prospects. Garvan,
/ pitcher: Guernsey. third base. and Wear.
right field. were the only players to he
| graduated last season. There are. how
+ ever. half a dozen coed new men 10
take heir places To replace Guernsey
there is some talk Of putting Chittenden,
! last years first base. on third. and al
lowing HasenwiukIe or LittIeGeId TO oc-
cupy first MetcaIf can be relied on 20
cover second. while Miller. OF last sea
son, and O'Brien. from Andover, are the
logical candidates for shortsfcp.
Good Pitchers.
Out in The field the most promising
men seem 10 be Cote, Cornwall. Barn
well and White Winsiow. the captain,
will be behind the bat most Of the time,
but he has two strong substitutes in
Farmer and Rockwell. both OF the foot
ball team Three good new pitchers
have been found in the persons OF Jack
son, from Exeter School: King, from
HOtchkiss School, and Bowman the foot
, ball fulIback who formerly pitched IN
the Hill School nine. Patten. one OF
Yale-s best pitchers. who injured his
arm last season, is in first class shape
again, and Will be relied on for most
Of the pitching.
Besides the encouraging feature Of
good material 10 count on there is an
other aspect 20 this years season al Yale
, which is encouraging. AID that is the ac-
QUESTION CT e professional coach. Dr.
William H. Murphy. an old Eli pitcher.
and a brother OF Nike Murphy. the
Yale trainer, will be at New Haven 10
coach the baseball men throughout the
entire season. This is an advantage
that Yale has never enjoyed before, and
a corresponding improvement is ex-
Quakers' Bright Prospects.
Pennsylvania baseball team has
brighter prospects than in 1892 The
baseball authorities are particularly
gratifed that indications for this sea
son point 10 the fact that the Quskers
will be unusually strong IN their ba'
terry. 4 department OF the game in which
they have been weak during recent sea
sons DevIIn. Grover. and Kaufman,
last years pitchers are agatn~availabIe,
and Marshall who was injured last sea
son, Will also trv f0T he nine. Bennett
who caught in most Of last season |
games, and Wolfe, Tho also made good
showing, will be the catchers- With
these men and Caniss a substitute, the
Quakers viii be strong behind the bat.
Candidates fer the other positions are
equally promising.
Conditions for the development of
good nine are fairly favorable at Cornell
Aside from the absence % WINERY, the
catcher the Ithacans did not lose any
valuable men by graduation Tydeman Is
regarded as The most likely man TO take
Whinery-s place Cornelrs pitching force
OF last season will return. and the Itha-
cans should be fairly strong in that
branch OF the game. Ferguson. Lewis,
and Costello viii be the basamen. and
other veterans viii also make up the
cutfeld.
Princeton 5 prospects. unlike those OF
most OF the othe- big colleges. are not
so bright The leading batsmen ana
base runners of she team were all grad
uated last June Steinv enaer, Meier, ana
Brown. members OF the All American
College team FOR several years, are gone
-Four positions on the team are vacant
those of second base. shoUrstop. left
field. and catcher. places that were filled
last season oy the Tigers best players
Veteran substitutes in considerable NUM-
Der. however. are still in College. and
the freshmen seem TO have some good
material Among the new material are
Doyle and Whitney. Jones. a third base
man from LawreaceviIIe and Larned,
second baseman from the same school
Stevens and UnderhiI, both veterans,
will be The pitchers. Experienced men
may also De relied on TO NIL most o.
the other positions.