Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-14
CQLLECIAns BUSY
ON THE DIAMOND
sprItg Play Shows Great Strength
N Some Of The Big VARSITY
Mines.
fO)TBAlL AyD ITS FALL PRosPF IT'S
Columbia May Take Up the Game
Again and Elsewhere Great Things
Arc Looked For-Annapolis Al.
thorities Are Seriously Considering
Proposition,

Proposition.
The baseball season of the colleges
rs yet only in its third week but al.
ready 1t is evident that II Is going 10
oe hummer. All the big university
hines, excepting Columbia, are snow
ing up In good shape and the race
loT the championship gives plenty OF
promise OF being hard fought and ex-
citing from the drop of the hap.
princeton. Yale, Harvard, Pennsylva-
ma and Cornell MI look exceptionally
!iKely at this stage OF the game and
there lis not one Of the lot but has 4
chancc for first honors of the inter-
collegiate diamond. Harvard was the
iaSt of tho Big Six to get into inc
ncld, but It's opening game OH Satur.
DAY with the University OF Vermont
shows that the Crimson players may
&c depended upon to cut loose with
some great hall playing when they get
Dit warned up TO their work.
with defeats by both Georgetown
anu. Fordham, Princeton's second
week at the game showed slump in
inc Tigers work, but there is little
reason for any Nassau enthusiast to
reel any alarm over these TEMPORARY
carly reverses. Heyniger. Nassau's
star twtrler who will have the brunt
OF the pitching to do in the big games
later on, was used in neither of the
games which were lost. while in botn
irlncetons batSmen faced the best
Daiitossers that their opponents couit
!rot out. incidentally, moreover, the
Tigers wiped up the diamond the
middle OF the week with Columbia to
mo tune of 10 to 1, just to show what
'hey can do when they really try.
pennsylvania Stout Bidder.
Unless all signs fall, Pennsylyani IA
Is going to be very formidable bidde.
LOT the supremacy IN college base.
I'm this spring. On the showing OF
the various important university mines
10 date, the Quakers appear to have
the best of it and with bunch OF
pitchers OF apparently very high class,
Il is difficult to see how the Red am
Blue players can be anywhere else
IMAM close up at the front of the base.
ball procession at the seasons wind
UP; Pensy accomplished great base
pail feat on Friday and Saturday of
iaSt week III successfully taking two
games from the strong GEORGETOWN
Iine. the hrst by score of 4 to 9 auu
INC second by to /. 1t is rare in
deed that any of the Northern college
nine goes UP against the Georgetown
players In the early part of the year
and the escapes without the loss of
at least one Of the two contests us
ually played.
rho handy way In which the Qua
kers humbled tho Washington collie.
CLANS pride by capturing the decision
10 Two tries. consequently is most
impressive demonstration that the
pennsylvania outfit Is going some.
Georgetown gathered In only four hit.
IN the first game and had to be con.
tent with solitary pair in the sec.
oud. Brady did the pitching for the
Quakcrs in Saturdays contest ant.
struck out every man of the George
town team, making fourteen strike.
outs to his credit is all. EarlieY IN
the week Pcnnsy went against George
Washington University ana won by ~
to ). Brady pitched in that galn>
and fourteen players also famed the
air only three hits being made off his
delivery AS tho Quakers have ysey.
oral other pitchers of the star variety
on the staff, 1t looks very much as IL
the Red and Blue would do things
, on the diamond this year.
Cornell and Vale strong.
BOTH Cornell and Yale have shown
lot OF carly. strength and their 40.
niirers have high hopes OF fine re.
cords to como when tho heavy enc
of the spring campaign comes around.
Yale won four of its five games on
its Southern trip. losing only to
Georgetown and then by score of
only 2 to |. ihc Ellis nave got thcI,
greatest encouragement, however.
from the contest between the Blue
and the New York Giants last Sat
urdays The New Haven players were
beaten to in game in which the
professionals made only eight hits, the
Same total as was made by Yale.
Gushing, the new Eli twirler, did the
honors for tho collegians and the
try-out make it certain he will figure
in large and important way in Yalc's
future games this spring. 1.'t-
Cornell, handicapped by Deshon' 9
poor condition, Is, nevertheless, put
ling up game that bids fair to make
tho Ithacans a big factor in the inter.
collegiate race. In beating the .-.i-
Horsity of Virginia, to q, and the
Navy 2 to 2, the players from New
York state gave an idea Of what they
can do that has done much to make
their partisans confident of a string
of victories when they get into their
real stride against the big fellows
in May and June.
III. Football for Columbia.
Prospects now are that football Will
be restored at Columbia soon. perhaps
in time for the students of the big
New York city institution to get into
line for the game this fall There
have hecn numerous rumors since the
first of the year that the college au
thoritios were getting ready to relax
and to permit the pigskin sport to Sc
cure n footing On MOIningsido EntoI,fe