Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-26

with the Philadelphia Americans as
Sc on as he graduates in June and the
signing of the contract will be done at
that time.
Only a few college pitchers are con-
siGered fast enough to go from college
baseball direct into the major leagues,
bat the host Of friends whom Files
has won during his four years at
BCWdoin have firm confidence that he
Will make good in the fastest company
as he has done in college ball Maine
college baseball already has one repre-
sentative in the big league in Coombs,
formerly OF Colby, who is on the same
Philadelphia team of which Files will
soon become member. Coombs
joined the Philadelphia Americans as
pitcher but is now used wholly as a
fielder and has made good there, as
he did in the box
There is no doubt that eddie"
Files is one of the best Of the college
I pitchers, if not the very best in the
country today. This is his fourth
year on the BoWdoin nine, and when
he has not been i'm the box he has
played on the field. In fact he is
sIch fast fielder and heavy hitter
that he would make any team on the
strength of that if he were not a
pitcher. Last year he was captain Of
the Bowdoin nine, and under his lead
ership Bowdoin not only won the
State championship but made the I'M
precedented record of winning every
game in the championship series and
| az l,, as
Harvard. Sparks, however, was con-
sidered a better pitcher than Files and
did most Of the work in the box last
season. This year. with Sparks out
OF college, practically all the pitching
has fallen upon Files, and he has
been twirling wonderful ban ever since
the team started on it's first trip in
April, when it defeated Brown and
Princeton. III the other outside
games, those with Dartmouth, Will
liams and Harvard Files held his OPP
poncnts down to three or four hits a
game. but his own team could not bat
heavily enough to pun out victories
IN these contests. The scores We're
only to ], TO 2 and 4 to 3.
In the first game of the Maine
championship series this year he shut
ont Colby without q single hit and in
the Maine game ut Orono last week
he held his opponents down to four
scattered hits, two Of these being of
the scratch variety. Tufts secured
| only one hit off his delivery and in no
game this year has he allowed over
five hits. If he can keep up this
kind of work for the remaining games
in the Maine championship series
BoWdon is sure of another baseball
championship to add to the four which
she has Won in the past half dozen
years
During the summer vacations Files
has played ball since being in college,
either in the Trolley League in the
kcnnebec cities or in the Aroostook
League, where he did great work last
season. He is rot only a star base
ball man but also one of the best all
round athletes in Bowdoin. Last fall
he was one Of the regular halfbacks on
the Varsity eleven and his brilliant
rIn of so yards which won the game
With Bates will long be remembered
by those who say that exciting grid
iron battle. He is one Of the most
popular men in the college and has
served AS president of his class He is
member Of the Zeta Psi fraternity
ard his home is in the town of Cor
nsh. His career in professional
baseball after the close Of the college
season will be watched with great in
terest by the lovers Of the national
game throughout the State.