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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-17
Live Notes Of Interest to All
Who Are Interested In
h Amateur Sport.

College baseball teams all over tho
country are getting rendy for the
coming season, and tho public Is as
greatly Interested in the plans of the
amatel,rs as II Is In tho professional
outlook.
The game always is the most popu-
lar In the country, and there are many
institutions which devote their spring
energies to baseball rather than to
track athletics or rowing. Cage prac-
tice has been The rule with most OF
tho college teams during The last few
weeks and most OF them are glad to
get off board into the playing field.
1t is observable that most of the
colleges have confident ideas as to
the prospects for the season, and that
iii almost as many cases any fears
that are entertained are on tho score
OF tho pitching stats. Except in one
or two institutions the twirlerB are
not the same men who did the work
last year and the lack OF seasoned
men In the boxes will trouble the
coaches.
A feature OF this season Is the trip
North, OF tho University OF Alabama
teams, champions OF the Far South
for five years. These players will
meet several New England teams
shout commencement time.
A review in advance OF the sea-
son, with schedules as far as 1t was
possible to obtain them, follows. The
prospects and material us well as the
games OF the colleges are set forth.
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Wilson and r. Mayock arc the pitch
Ing candidates outside those already
Georgetown has every hope of good
spring weather, with the idea of rc-
teating past triumphs over the North
ern college teams which visit tho
Washington University. DR. Jio
OHara, the coach, turned out good
team for Georgetown last year, and liz
likely to do even better this time.
Tho Washington lads do not take II
Northern trip this year. There will
be games with Fordham and Holy
Cross in the home towns OF the latter
two colleges. The schedule, as far as
completed, Is as follows:
March %, Maryland Agricultural
College, at Georgetown; %, Columbia,
at Georgetown; 90, Princeton, at
Georgetown.
April 1, Princeton, ut Georgetown;
2, Yale, ut Georgetown; 4,
sycaruse, at Georgetown; g. Penn
sylvania at Georgetown; 8, Penn
sylvnnia. Mt Georgetown 8. yir-
glnia Military Institute, at George
town; 12; Dartmouth. at George
town; 10, Virginia. at Georgetown; 1s
North Carolina. at Georgetown; IL
Gallaudet College. at Georgetown; Is
Trinity. at Georgetown: 10. Holy Cross
at Worcester; "a, Tordham, at New
| York.
May A, Virginia, at Charlottesville
| 8. Washington and Lee, at Georgetown
| II. George Washington at George.
town; 25, George Washington, a
Georgetown.
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CORNELL

The 1thacans have lost seven
veteran players, the worst feature be-
Ing that two OF these are Unstad and /
Welch, ono OF the best college bat
tories OF the past two years. Further
than that Champaign. Preston and |
Braman, outilclders; Hollands, second |
baseman, and Browne, first base, have |
been lost to the university. Umstads
loss is felt the most severely, be- |
cause he was a good hitter, and
pitching. 1io was n very valuable
man.
In spite of tho apparently bad out
look the Ithacans are not Respondent.
Deshon, the Nicaraguan, who has been
doing a lot OF good pitching for two
years past, will be the mainstay in
the box. Lovejoy. a varsity substi-
tute last year. and Gale and Caldwell,
two sophomores. will help Deshon out.
Hastings will do the catching. In case
1t may be decided, however, to send
Hastings to the outfield, either Hall
sey, Graves or Pollen will be tried
as n backstop. All these arm capable
substitutes
For first base there are three men.
Bradley, first basemhn last year on
one of the intercollege teams; Mantell
who captained the Ithaca team last
summer, and Watson, who did well on
the freshman team last year, are
fighting it out.
Hemingway and Fulton, two upper
classnen, are lighting for the second
base. 1t may not lie between them IL
one Of the men left out after the first
base is chosen comes over to try for
| the next sack. Captain Brown will
hold down third base again and He'll
man Will be found at shortstop. Bige
| low Is the only veteran fielder. There
| are ten candidates for the other places.
| of whom Iberle and Clarke seem to
| be the leaders.
4 Coach Danny Coogan the former
| University OF Pennsylvania player and
later Philadelphia National Lenguer,
Is satisfied that the Cornell team,
though perhaps not such an aggre-
/ cation of star men as that Of last sea-
son, will be better balanced.
Cornell has not Princeton In the
schedule and instead has taken on two
games with Harvard. The schedule
follows:
March 49, George Washington Uni
versity, at Washington; 25, Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, at Ra-
leigh. N. c.; 20 and 81, Trinity, at
Durham. N. c.; %, North Carolina. at
Chapel Hill; 20, Virginia, at Chm
lottesville; 80. Annapolis at Annap-
oils.
April 6, Rochester. at Ithaca; no.
Hobart. at Ithaca; 10, Niagara, at lslia-
cd; 16 and H. Syracuse State League
at Ithaca; 20, Lafayette, at Ithaca %
st. Bonaventure. at Ithaca.
May 1. Pennsylvania State, ut 1tha.
ca; 3. Columbia, at Now York; A. Yale
ut New Haven: 8, Bucknell ut Ithunni
IL. Harvard. at Ithaca; IL. Lchigh. III
Ithaca: II, Fordham, at New York. i s
Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; &c
Fordham. at Ithaca; 25, Amherst, 81
Ithaca; 80, Pennsylvania, at Itham..
juno /. Harvard, at Cambridge s.
Alumni game.
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BUcKMELL

Last years nine was composed al
most wholly Of new men, whcih makes
the Bucknell team Of this season cntor
tho field with a fine array OF veteran
talent Seven players Ciriminger, Par
sons, Leach, sileehan, Nipple, August
and King--aro in college Grimingcr
was captain last year. and has beon
re-elected. He viii catch, Parsons
and Leach will be helped out In pitch.
ing by beats and Carey. the latter two
new men. Leach Is a left handler who
'puzaied Cornell last year. Parsons
beat Lafayette ! to Q last year, glving
one hit. MI 5S s
Sheehan will be seen at flrst base.
although regularly an outtlelder Fer
guson may relieve sheellan II hc Inn
proves In his hitting, Heinz and
ollendorf loft second base and short ~
stop vacant when they retired from
the game Nipple will again play
third August and King viii hold
their outtleld places, Clarke, a new
man and u good hitter. probably viii
get tho third place IN the field,f
Townsend may get vacant inAeId
place. Tho Bucknell schedule Ii; N
April is. Snsqnchanna, at I.ewis-
burg; Is. ST. Joints NJ Al. az Lawis-
burg; 20, Princeton, at Princeton. ~
May 3. Dickinson, at I.ewlsburE; 81.
| Cornell, at Ithaca, 0, Syracuse, ak
| Syracuse; III. lsloon,shurg Normal. m
| Bloonisburg; rs, West Yirglnia. At
I4ewisburg: ~, Dickinson, az cariiElxss
a5, Franklin and Marahall, at l.ewis-S
seton Hall, at South Orange, sS ssI
June l, Lafayette, at I.ewishurG; IA ~
Blloonsburgs ut Lewisburgi ~. Lazy.
= cite. at EaSt0n. -,s i h 2sSa
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ANNAPOLIS

Owing to tho premature graduation
Of a part of the senior class OF tho
Naval Academy, early plans for the S
baseball team were broken up consld-
erably. The mild weather and exuep-
tional facilities for indoor work are
expected to help counterbalance thlH
reverse In part. Lombard, captain OIL
tho team and third base; Bacon. at secs
ond; Hambsch, catcher; stiles, first
base; Van Auken, regarded az q res
markably promising pitcher; Lamphier,
another good pitcher, and Purnell and
LanEc, In the field. are among the vct.
Grams.
1t Is hoped that Douglas. halfback
on the football team, will be able to
pitch this year. Among the best OF
the plebes are Molten, Myers, Strick-s
land. Julian, Scott and Gildersleeve.
The schedule as far as completed Isl:
March 80. ST. Johns, at Annapolis:f
"a. Columbia, at Annapolis; 20. Yale
at Annapolis; 80, Cornell at Annapolis.
| April 8. Syracuse, ut Annapolis; TO-
| Virginia Military Institute, at Annap-
oils; IL. Dartmouth, at Annapolis; 49,
Lafayette, at Annapolis; ~, George
[ Washington, at Annapolis; is, Har-s
| ward, at Annapolis; 20. Johns Hopkins.
| at Annapolis, ~, university OIL SteOr-g
gia, at Annapolis; %. ST johns, at
| Annapolis. SS
May i, Agricultural and Mechanical
at Annapolis; 2, Randolph Macon, at
\ Annapolis; 4, Walbrook A. c., at An-s
napolis; 8, Gallaudet, at Annapolis q,
1 Washington and Lee at Annapolis;811,
Dickinson, at Annapolis; IS, West
| Point. at West Point.
The Harvard team has arranged to
use the Navy grounds for practice from
4 April 18th to 18th, and the midship-
men will play games daily with the
4 Crimson then, M 8s
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/ LEH.IGH

Early practice at Lcliigh for the
baseball team has been going on With
out professional cohching, no one
having been found to take tho place Of 4
Danny Coogan as yet. Tho chief
trouble up to date has been to find
good pitchers, because. although there
are many candidates. the quality ~ a
Eo. very good. OF the mon who arc
Tying for the box position there are
Hesse, Barker, Serfass, Tressler, Tny-a
Tor. Green, Friday and Rickscclsor, The d
men who are after the backstops place
are Captain Maclsall and McMurtie.s
Street. who caught for George School
last year lis expected out when the
basketball season Is over. VIZ 8St
Gott. who played first base last
spring, has been graduated. and Mack
all, having gone In to catch, leaves lott
field open, too, Shortstop also is ~
uncertain position. Uptegraf wilt play
centre field, Gnlbraith second base and i
Kirk. third base, All these are MEM
bors of last years nine. Aarons and
Schuelber will fight 1t out for shortstoESs
unless the freshman class produces sa
Lawrence. Serfass and Mercur Will
fight out the outheld places. Stcrner
is likely to be the first baseTan.
The Lehigh schedule calls for the
following games.
April 6, Albright College, ut South
Bethlehem; 10, Princeton, at Prince
| ton; 13. st. Joints College, at South
! Bethlehem; II, West Point. at West
| Point; 90, G. G. N. ". at South Beth
lehem; "a, Pennsylvania, at South
Bethlehem; 27. Dickinson. at Carlisle.
4 May 1, yillanova, at South Bethle-l
hem; A, Lafayette. at lIaston: 5, Stew
ems Institute, at South Bethlehemi IL.
New York University, at New York;
IT, Cornell. at Ithaca: rs. Pennsyl-f
yania state, at South Bethlehem; 22.S
Eastern College A. A. at South Beth
lehem; 80. franklin and Marshall at
South Bethlehem.
June s, Lafayette, at Easton, IL
university of Alabama, MT South Beth:
| lehem.
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HAMPDEN-sIDNEY
fspecial to Tho Times Dispatch j

Especial to Tho Times Dispatch.
HAMPDEN SIDNEY COLLEGE,
March 16.--Owing to the continued
bad weather and the condition of tho
grounds. the baseball team has never
been more behind In Its practice. Tho
whole squad has not been out at tho
same time moro than twice so far,
and 1t Is, therefore, hard to make any
estimate OF the prospects for the sea-
son and what the team Will develop
into The usual interest in the team
is manifested, and practice of an ir-
regular kind has been going on when
ever tho weather permitted for the
past four or five weeks, but little team
work has been attempted. Prom the
standpoint of material, Captain Phil
hover tells your correspondent the
outlook Ia good, for among the appli.
cants for the team are number who
have made enviable preparatory school
records. Among these men are Dare,
or Randolph Macon Academy short
stop and pitcher: Stras, OF the Epis-
copal High School. outtielder; Sterrett,
OF Fishburne Military Academy first
base; King. OF Cluster Springs second
base; Sinton, Of Nolle's school, short
stop. Promising pitchers are to be
found in Williams. Dare and Hoy The
position of catcher lies between Stras
Borum and Irving.
An excellent schedule has been ar
ranged, and as all the championship
games in which Hampden- Sidney takes
part are played at Sidney
the local interest Is getting out 9
good team, which Is unusually strong
Captain Philhower says he is hope-
full OF a good team, but viii not make
any promises at this date.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-17
CARLISLE INDIANS

Glenn s. Warner. the coach of tho
Indian baseball team and general
director of athletics in the school. In
clines to the belief that the season
OF the Indians will be very success-
full. The Carlisle men have a great
many players in the school who, al
though they did not make the varsity
last year, are likely to get places this
season. The school has produced
many players who have done we'll In
professional ball,
or last years team there are now
available Captain Hendricks, who
plays third base; Pappau. shortstop;
Twin, second base; Young Deer, centre
field; Balent' left field; Whitecrow
and Charles, nitchers; Little Boy,
catcher. Carlow and Shonzo are new
candidates for pitcher. Archie Libby
viii try for first base, and Wauseka
Is a candidate for place as catcher
The men who will have any positions
still vacant have not yet been decided
upon,
The manager was late getting to
work on the schedule aud as result
there arc not very many good games
on tho list. The dates have not all
been filed. and there may he some
games to add to the list, which fol-
lows:
April g. Mercersburg at Carlisle; 9.
Franklin and Marshall at Carlisle; 10,
Mercersbnrg at Mercersburg; l2, Lo-
banon Valley College at Carlisle; is.
st, Johns College at CARLISLE; 30.
Nordham at New York; 27, Brown ut
proyidence; 80, Pennsylvania State al
Carlisle,
May 3, Susquehanna at Cariisle; TO-
Syracuse at Elmira; rs, Mount ST.
Mnry's at Emmltsburg. Md. "a, AL
bright ut Carlislei %, Lebanon yal-
Icy College at Annylle.
June s, Pennsylvania at Philadcl-
phla; 10. Albright ut Myerstown; ~
Pennsylvania State at State College.
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UNIVERSITY OF N. C.
Especial to Tho Times dispatch,

lopeCtbt W
CHAPEL HILL N. c.. March 16.--
Although nothing definitely can be
stated this early In the season, tho
prospects OF the Universitys putting
out winning baseball team this
spring have never before seemed bet
ter. With q nucleus OF seven of last
years team to begin with and many
promising candidates. Carolina has
every prospect OF one of the strongest
baseball teams In her athletic history.
There have been daily practice games
during tho open weather OF the past
weol, between the Varsity and Scrubs,
and the whole squad is getting In con-
dltion for the coming contests.
Carolina Ia we'll supplied with
pitchers this season Captain Thomp.
son, Morrow. Montgomery and IIamil.
On are all aspiring to represent Car
elina In the twirlers' capacity, in
uumbers tho catcllers arc almost equal
20 the pitchers Rodgers, Raney and
Rawlings arc trying for the recelv-
ing end OF tho battery, Tor Arst base
two new men--Ha,nilton and Chaplin
ere the only contestants. Second base
= 4 Il
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PENNSYLVANIA

The Quakers did not have q partIcu-'
larly successful season last venr, the
team being somewhat uncertain until
after the midseason. This yearu miro
is working under tho graduate syste.n
of coaching, which Is expected to
bring good results II 1t Ia stuck to
long enough. The team will hay, It's
same battery from last year. Captain
Judd being behind the bat. and Hay.
who was the most successful pitcher
OF last year. being still In college,.
Fennell is another pitcher who wo.ks
in tho outfleld, Keinath, the basknt-
ball player will be used in thu In
field. and Kakai, the Jap, will ALSO
get an infield job, the rest OF the make
up for the coming season being unccr-
tain. The Pennsylvania team is weak
in its hitting, and there is some ankle
ty as to this important part of tile
work. John Blakely is in charge Of
the team this year. being assisted by
other former varsity players
The schedule of the tenn follows:
March 80. c. G. N. Y, at Franklin
Field.
April i. Richmond College, Mt New
port News; 4. University Of Virginia.
at Charlottesville; S. Georgetown, ct
Washington; G, Georgetown. at Wash
ington; 10. Villa Nova, at rranl;'in
Field; Ia. Trinity. at Franklin Field.
| is, Niagara, at Franklin Fold; N,
| Gettysburg, Mt Franklin Field; N, t!,-
| lumbla. at Franklin Field "a, Lufa. :
ette at Easton; 2s, West Point, at
| West Point,
| May ], Fordham. at Franklin Field;
a. Princeton, at Franklin Field; 6. Unit
| verslty OF Virginia, at Franklin Field
lao. Ursinus. at Franklin Field; III. Yaie
Mt Franklin Field; Is. Columbia, ut
New York; 49, Cornell. at Frahtllin
| Field: g. Lafayette at Franklin Field
| %. Yale at New Haven; az, Pannayl-
vania State at Franklin Field; 30
Cornell. at Ithaca.
June /, Brown. at Franklin Field; 6
University of Alabama, at Frsnnlir
| Field; s.. Brown at Providencei 10
Amherst, at Amherst IL, Princeton, n
Princeton; II. University of Michigan
at Franklin Field (pending)
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COLUMBIA

Columbia is happy over the appear
ance Of seven men for the pitching
staff. They arc Lee, Bradtke. OCon-
nell Timber, Burdett, McMorro and
Connors Leo and Bradtke both are
left-handers and pitched last year. Leo
is sometimes very effective, but often
unsteady. Bradtke has not shown
first-class caltbre in two years OF
trial. O'Connell, freshman, with
lot OF experience with tho Boys III. S.
and the Crescent A. c., is expected to
be tho best Of tho lot. Connors comes
from st. JOINTS College. Timber pitch
ed for the freshmen last year. The
other two look good at first inspection,
but have not been thoroughly tried o,lt
Captain Collins, shortstop for three
years, and Il very good one, heads the
list of veterans. The others are: Young,
catcher; Miltenberger, substitute CATCH
err; Hayes, first-base Armstrong, Sc
cond-base, q veteran of high grade;
Kimbel, Schmidt and Mccoy. who were
outfelders Hendricks and Osterhout,
freshmen. will give Hayes and Milten-
berger a run for first-base, for which
all four are trying.
Mccoy played third-base the latter
part OF last season and may get tho
place again. although no is not a top
nctcher. Tho men who are clashlng
with Schmidt and Klmbel in tho out
| field arc Roberts, Wheeler, NIilkman,
Tonking, ]. j. oConnell swartwout,
Elson and Hanrahan. All these men
have tried for the Columbia team be-
| fore this and their abilities are not
| very high.
The Columbia team has tho advan-
tage OF being coached by William o..
4 ,,,I,, ,.p 4, ~
tionals, and Jack lSleinow, Of the New
York Americans They are two good
men, Gilbert on fielding and Kleinow
on catching, as we'll as on the art OF
timely hitting. II tho magnetic
ISleinow can instill' little Of his
knowledge of this science into the Co
lun,ha squad there wal DO n team
which certainly can hit when 1T is
needed
4 The schedule Is far from being an
/ easy one, and will tax the Columbia
team greatly II 1t Ia no better than
some of them have been. The team
starts off with trip to the South and
the first game Will BIO played away
from home. This is welcome and
sensible Innovation in tho opinion q.
Columbia Undergraduates. The SEIZED.
ue follows:
March 81, Annapolis, at Annapolis
Is, georgetown. at Washington; 20
T washington and Leo, at Richmond; 30
Virginia, ut charlottesville.
April 1, Richmond Collage, at Rich.
mondi 81. Princeton, at Princeton: 6
New York University, ut New York
10, Stevens Institute. at New York
13, Fordhan, at New York In Rut
. gers, at New FORK; 90. Pennsylvania
at Philadelphia; "a, Cornell at Ithacn
81, Yale, at New York.
May l, Seton HALL at South Orange
3, Cornell, at New York;4, West Point
Mt West Point; 8, Brown, at Prov
dence; IL, Lafayette, at Easton liz
/ Pennsylvania. at New York 80, Ores
cent A. e., at Bay Ridge
Juno !. Fordham, at Tordham: 4
Wesleyan, at NIiddlatown; d, Williams
|. ut Wllliamstown; 6. Holy Cross, a
( Worcester: Z, Amherst, ut Amherst; {
!. Harvard, Mt Cambridge. ~
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HARVARD

Tho outlook for the Crimson team
this year is not cheerful The candi-
dates outside OF the veterans Of last
year who have reported are not OF
particularly good quality, and, what Ia
more, the men are none too we'll salts
fed with the coach, Louis Pieper, who
never played on the varsity team as
n regular. 1t Is not Pieper's fault,
however, that there Is only the very
slightest kind of pitching material this
Year.
In spite of the fact that the infleld
and outfield arc intact, which ordinarily
would indicate n very successful sec
ond year team, there Is so absolute
a dearth of anything really like pitch
ing material that the chances for any
kind OF box work that Is near salts
factory are so slight as to be almost
indiscernlble. Harvard had only one
pitcher last year, anyhow, Castle, and
he is no lohger available.
The inaeld last year--Currler, Leon
ard, Harvey. Mccall and Burr-are out
and working. Captain Dexter, slmons
and Pounds, the outnold men of last
year, all are in college. Brennan,
|, Greene, Bush and Hartford are tho
| pitchers on whom tho Crimson per-
| force will depend.
| The Importance OF batting will be
greatly emphasized this year at Har-
ward. The last two Harvard teams
have failed to hit, and most Of the
practice Is going to be devoted to this
Very important department OF the run
lgettlng game.
4, The Harvard schedule, rs thus fal
arranged. Is much shorter than tina,
4 of the other colleges. There are onl,
TWENTY-FIVE dates on It, ana tho frs
game Is nearly month away. Tho
schedule follows
April 6, University of Vermont, a
Cambridge; 10. Wesleyan at Cam
bridge; is. Annapolis, at Annapolis
go. West Point. at West Point; "a
Bates College, at Cambridge; 81, Dart
mouth at Cambridge; 90, Universal,
OF Maine. mt Cambridge.
May 1, Amherst, ut Cambridge; A
l Holy Cross. at Worcester; 8. Williams
Il at Cambridge; IL. Cornell, at Ithaca
as Exeter. at Exeter; 1s, Princeton
at Cambridge; a2, Andover, Mt Andover
n ab, Princeton, at Princeton: 90, Brown
at Providence.
Juno /, Cornell, at Cambridge; /
Brown. at Cambridge; 8. Columbia a
Cambridge: 10, Rowdoin, Mt Cambridge
IL, Holy Gross, at Cambridge; ao Yalt
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GEORGETOWN

The Georgetown team of 1907 Is
expected to be much better aggrega-
ton than that Of the previous year,
solely for the reason that 1t starts
off tho season with much loss discour-
agement, Coach O'Hara last year had
only two veterans about whom to
make UP team. He succeeded, and
Georgetown made fine record. This
year there arc four men who have
left the institution, but the remainder
make a fine nucleus. Drennen, the best
PITCHER; Mahoney, first baseman, who
now Is at Harvard; u. Duggan ana
Monohan, outflelders, arc those who
have left Georgetown.
Howard Smith. last years captain,
was reelected. He will play third
picked on an all-college team n.
scheeler will be shortstop again ana
Devlin second, S. Mudd and i. Ma
loney will be catchers. II. Cantwe!!
will be flrst pitcher, with Montgomery
and Mayock HIS main assistants, q.
simon and i. Iouggan are those who
remain Of the outlield.
Georgetown has Jared very well In
the matter of new material, Schlnfv,
n freshman who comes from st, Louis
University; G. Burns, "a Californian
Cohn, from the Georgetown Prepare
tory Quinn, Il medical school student;
O'Boyle, from Hill School and IVits
gerald and Pfohl are good men wh1
are trying for !nfell places. q. 1Senpe
and Boxer, from Plttsburg; Moran.
Clement, sealey, from Brown, and Car
| lin are trying for the outtied. Mlllpr
| a Georgetown Preparatory School boy
J Devlne, freshman from milwaukee,