The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-27
COLLEGE SPORTS


! Yale's baseball candidates will go
out this week to the first practices.
/ The work begins in the cage and when
I it is warm enough for them to do so
they go out in the open air. Capt.
Winslow believes that Yale will win
the college baseball championship for
1904. and he has a good foundation for
his hopes. Yale will lose only one or
two old players and will have in Nc
Kay of the Law School, a star pitcher.
He was ineligible last year. WinslOw
Chittenden. Littlefeld, Metcalf and
OBrien are all back for the infield,
ard Thorn, Barnes and Cote for the
Outfield Barnwell is no longer
eligible. Bowman is still on the pitch
ing staff, as is Allen. of last years
squad. 1t is expected that several
good former prep school players will
appear among the newcomers.
BILLY" Murphy. '93. last years most
popular and successful coach, is again
to handle the Yale batters, and Capt.
Winslow will also call in a few pitch
ers from the minor leagues to work
up The batting abilities of his team,
a branch of the game in which Yale
has been wofully weak in late years.
The gym" cage is in wretched con-
to be built over again, but outside of
that disadvantage the season starts
well.
The Yale crew starts out with pecu-
liarly trying obstacles this year. Five
places in the eight will have to be
filled-stroke, Nos. s, and . and bow.
BOgue, Coffin, JudsOn, Waterman and
Stubs are not available. johnson,
al hn Ia
left college, and DAILY. who was one
of the best men in the 1902 eight is in
college, but il is not known that he
will try for the boat. This leaves only
three of the old men in-Cross, Whit
tier and Miller. Whitney, of last
years freshman boat, has the call just
now on stroke. but the place is not
filled. over a hundred men are now
trying for next springs freshman
shell, and the best of the squad look
to be a likely lot of oarsmen.
The track work will virtually begin
at Yale this coming week. when on
Monday Capt. Clapp will issue his call
for candidates. For indoor starting
practice there has been installed in the
gymnasium a cork forty yard carpet.
1t is definitely understood at Yale
English universities, Cambridge and
oxford, and Harvard are ready to re-
sumo international track meetings.
and, as Yale has been ready for two
years, such a meet seems almost as
sured.
Yale track managers have sent to
the various preparatory schools the
orders for the annual interscholastic
haI ta'
The meet will be held this year at
Yale Field on Saturday. May a. The
cup offered by Yale will be given to
the school winning it four times.
Mercersburg and Worcester Acadamy
have each won the cup once.
Harry Vaughn, the Baron first base
man last season, and one of the old
timers Of National League fame, has
arranged matters with Auburn this
spring ara will take charge of the
orange and blue ball squad early in
March. Auburn figured on securing
George Winters, but the deal fell
through as the Atlanta player was due
in Washington early in March and
had no chance to report south before
his team left for training camp. The
Southern bali season is about due TO
open in the college realm now, as
ready begun indoor work. The list of
Southern coaches has been almost
completed and these will start their
teams in action by the middle of Feb
ruary, at least. Athletes who will
coach Southern college teams this
spring >are: j. w. Heisman, at Tech;
Tom Davis, at Vanderbilt Tom
Stouch. at Alabama; Harry Vaughn,
at Auburn; Martin Dickinson, at
Georgia; Wilfred Lane, at Mercer;
Sherman Kennedy, University of
Nashville; Phil Brady, at Sewanee;
Alumni coaching at Clemson; A. G.
Phillips at Cumberland. This list
shows but four colleges using the
alumni coach system, Georgia, Van
derbilt, Mercer and Clemson. The rest
are league people. Tom Davis is we'll
known in Georgia, especially in the
neighborhood of the classic campus at
Athens. where he reigned supreme
with Vanderbilt in the days of Joe
Sheriff.. Sanford, "Threet" Moore and
Tick Tichenor. Davis was a great
catcher, but on his last trip to Athens
in 80 shifted his bearings to the slab, |
where the robust Mr.. Moore plucked |
three home runs and a triple in one |
game and Tom was never the same |
cheerful spirit afterwards. Brady, |
who will coach Sewanee, is the ex-
Nashville try out who led the purple |
to victory against Vanderbilt in 1902 |
Brady Is an old Brown University |
twirler and knows the game well. The |
rest of the coaches are too well known |
in this section for further comment
but their presence means that the col |
lege game should be faster than ever
this 1904.