The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-22
==s= =@ ALL NEWS OF NEWARK SPORTS AND ATHLETICS
SETON HALL AFTER WELSHER,
BLOOMFIELD A. AS CATCHER
Crack Local BackstOp's Work
Attracts Attention of Col
lege Authorities.
BY EDWARD P. DUFFY.

Harry Welsher, the promising young
catcher of the Franklin A. A, Is con-
sidering a fine offer from Seton Hall
College. That institution Is In need of
a battery this year. The fine work or
the local boy behind the bat has at
tracted attention. 1t Is said that he has
been offered a chance for a classical
education at the college. If he VIII de-
eide to enter the freshman class In the
fall OF the year.
That there Is some one at the helm
at Seton Hall who knows a baseball
player Is evident from the reported
selection of Weisher, for he Is n OF
the neetest and really the fastest
Conner In local semi-pro ranks. He
is but nineteen years old. A big pair
OF shoulders and a frame that has not
ceased developing bespeak the promise
of the great physical strength neces-
sary for a catcher. He Ia q healthy
boy, too, one who always takes care of
himself. Welsher has been playing
semi-pro ball but a short time, having
graduated from the lots and the small
boy call at vailsburg, ABE" Welshe,,
his brother. who is the star pitcher for
the Columbia, S. C. South Atlantic
lJttiE llC INoliA tiiS yea.
Welsher is q fine, consistent hitter,
which makes him more valuable. The
young man has not made his decision
as yet. You had better take the oppor-
tunity, Harry.
Alec fraud, who used to pitch quite
a bit a few years ago In this city, Is
anxious to get back In the game once
~-4l tyrtrInr az that
time. Local managers can find him at
3S Maine street.
Adam Neubeck, the monitor of the old
Elizabeth Atlantic League team, Is
having his troubles trying to run a
Sunday team in Betsytown. Last Sum
day he had the Railway team go e
to help him out. but there were so few
people present that he would not play
the game, sending the Railway boys
home without n penny for their rouble
Boschen. of the Turner'S, has been
pitching excellent ball this year. He
hasn't much in the line of curves. ana
does not make a very striking appear
ance in the box. He has a whole lot of
brains. though, which he mixes all the
time with a slow outcurve that the
fellows pop up on their efforts to kkill
the pill.
Gene" Nafe, the old Chatham out
fielder. who is playing with the st.
John Lyceurn team in Jersey City on
Sundays, will probably hook up with
the Montclair A. A. for Saturday
games. There are rumors Of other
shake-ups on that team.
There will be no championship game
this year between the Mutual Life team
Of New York and the team that wins
the series between the picked teams of
the Prudential and Mutual Benefit of
this city.
The Prudential team at Wieden-
mayors Park yesterday trimmed the
Mutual team In the first game OF the
series to decide the local championship
by the score of II to 3. The "Mutes"
were mute with the stick when Holmes
served them up, while the "Prus' went
at Hopping, of the Chatham Athletics,
with a vengeance. The next game of
the series will be played tomorrow
afternoon in the same park.
Never, the Mutual catcher, in throw
ing to get a man stealing second In
yesterdays game, hit Hampson, the
P~rudential's first baseman, In the head
with the ball. He was unconscious for
several minutes.
Sobiez, the Mutuals' third baseman,
plays like a
The Pirates will play the Elizabeth
Stars Sunday.