Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-01
Baseball Outlook at the
Big Universities.
Carter, the former Yale Pitcher,
Sizes Up Situation
At Harvard, Yale, Princeton and che
University of Pennsylvania.

interesting ii for no othc: reason than
'IliS, That If Yale does not win the
championship she will have finished
up a whole decade Uhink of ten years.
o1 continuous defeat in baseball, with
! one exception that stands out in bold
reilcf. This exception was in 1898.
Wien Capt. Greenway's team. after
| losing the first game in both the
Princeton and Harvard series with a
substitute in the box, won the next two
WIN the gritty captain pitching, he
having to depend solely on controlof the
hall and his own magnificent nerve 10
pull him through. His arm was gone. =
but lie WAS Il Greenway. so enough is
| said. From 1875 to 1895 Yale was
| Practically supreme in this sport.
once i'll while she would lose. of
course but she always got everything
possible out of her material and the
old feeling that permeatcd those old
Yale teams was that Harvard had to
be tWic, and Princeton one and a half
times as good to beat her. Yale used
! to rise to occasions. and yale fin
ishes' got to be a byword. But since
iS9o-diaw Il Veil. Yale in the last
! ten years has not always had the best
Of material. bat the reason is apparent
why good prep school players do not
how go to Yale. They know that if
| they cast their lot with the Blue they
| are very apt to taste four years of de-
feat. which is not a bright outlook for
ambitious, embryo stars. The break
Jig away from the college with it's
| tight esprit dc corps, to the great uni
velsty with its wide and loOscning in
tercsts, the inroads of wealth and the
consequent cliques. and the removal!
from the campus Of the so-called lead
| ing men of the sophomore class (by
! leading is meaht those most likely to
| make" this society or that for one
| reason or unoth"r), has knocked that
! tight Old Yale spirit of democracy, and
loyal support Of all things pertaining to
Yale, into cooked hat. College spirit
and support affect baseball more than
any other sport from the nature of the
game itself. and this is why Y ale base
| hall is affected more than football,
| rowing or track athletics by the
changed conditions.
Yale starts out this spring under the
| leadership of Capt. bowman. who has
enlisted the services of Walter Camp
as head coach; in fact, he is supposed
| To occupy the same relation to the
| nInC that he did to tn" eleven. In adj
i'tion. Lush. the outiielder of the
Cleveland Americans. will coach the
| team Throughout tho season. This Is
Il rldica! departure from the old Yale
idea of making the captain absolute
boss giving him all the credit for vie
tory and all the blame for defeat: but
like drowning man. Yale is grabbing
ut baseball StraWS the way she has
Leen reaching for Out-curves the last
ccw years. -Nt the same time he will
be a :hOuShtlesS Yale man whO by amy
act or statement. throws any obstacle
in the present teams path. Every
body saws. "liands off," and Give
them Il fair show"
Taic'S material for Il winning team
is not impr" ssivc. NirSlow has grad
llHted and his successor must be found.
The only man so farlis Erwin. Il 200
FOUNDER whose weight is against him.
and his arm is none too good. The
catchc!'s Job is no place for weak
ann There is some talk of Bowman
going. behind the bat if all others fail.
Hos versatile enough to try anything.
and ut Hill school h" used to he one
member of Il reversible battery. but
he has Il round-arm pitchers throw
that might count against him as Il
catcher. This position is 50 open now
that there is no need Of talking more
abort it. At first it looks like Bow
man: second is wide open. 80 is third
unless Kinney. ii freshman. gets the
,nh. but he has all tn" earnarks of q
, poor hitter. At short will be found
O'Hrjcn. head ana shoulders and to tho
waist line tho best m'n on the team:
but mt that he has never hit rs wen as
if is known that he can. The outiicld
is the same old outiit-Cotc Blrnes,
smith. ard Huiskanr. The last
mined A left handel throwcr, WAS
,,;cd ON third base last year: this year
bc aoes 10 the outield. Smith is miles
The. best hitter as long as they don't
find his weakness. but anyon" can. s"
bo il ont Of it unless he can overcom"
:, EuriIcS ana Cot" brlccd up in good
eh,ue last year. but a bigger brace is
needed nom both tn bring them up to
,hn ynlc standard of Case, keator, ct
al.
y.l.,s hitting in III" last few years
I,,c I,rp a cross DttWr n Il CRIME ana
:, like but this year the cry is loud for
bitters. and Lush. member of MUIR
darers' Row" as pitchers call the first
.ix l,attors on the Cleveland list, is
,borr to teach the team the art.
Now we come to III" box. Since Gil
Creenway. they have AL tried it and
called Yale never Ia | left -handcr
that was even pretty good. while Har-
,.,rd has had her Jack Highlands
princeton her Easton. and now Byram:
ponnsy,vania Reese and Brown and
Da,.Iin and 50 on. This year Yale has
Poll and if ne can't DO ;he trick. there
l. nobody on that squad that can. He
10 st,cky COOL and has 4 good fighting
1;sposition: good control. change Of
waco rare in LEI. -hander). and a
a,s,t many deliveries. which is rarer
Fin Jackson is uncertain. and Pratt is
,,rcttv light and Inexperienced. In a
n,n-shell, it's up to Bell, as it looks
now.
The prospects. all in all. Ire not rosy.
,,,,t if Yale is the Yale Of old. it will
onlv make them fight anG work harder.
rhe grads will assist in any way pos
s;hle but they are sick of the ex-
,,;,;tions Of modern Yale ball as shown