New-York tribune., 1908-02-20
on COLLEGE DIAMONDS.
Many of Last Years Stars M'ss'nS
THROUGH Graduation.

Many of the baseball players on the Cornell and
Princeton teams whose records were so nearly
alike that it almost impossible to decide
which deserved the college championship last
year. will be missing when the season starts next
month At present ii looks if the Tigers
started the season with better prospects than the
Comedians There were few pitchers last year
in ID class with Deshon, who has completed his
college course at Ithaca. Deshon will be missed
hy tne Cornell team more than any two other
PLAYERS for he was a remarkable college player
The chief loss sustained by ,he Princeton team
is Captain Cooney, a fine catcher and batter
Heyneiger and Drews the star twirlers are stili
in college and will play this year. Besiaes these
two veterans five other members of the 1907
team have been working in the cage for more
than a week Princeton will start the season
with fine prospects for a championship team
Brown Went through the 1907 season without q
defeat and her record was almost as good as
that of Princeton and Cornell The mainstay Of
the Providence in the pitching department
was Tiff. member of the New YORK Amerl-
can League team. But Brown. which has turned
ont many professional player, still has first
class battery in Captain NJ. Raymong catcher.
and Nourse pitcher. Budlong. at third base, and
Dennie in centre field, are the only other vet
erans but there IS plenty of promising material
among those ineligible last year.
Harvard which defeated Yale in the deciding
game of the series al the Polo Grounds last year.
6 danandjng upon graduate coaches now, and they
have the men for championship team Eight out
Of tho nine nsyers on the 1907 still eligible
and some of them are liable TO he crowded out by
the Youngsters. There is an unusually fine lot of
ritrhers at Cambridge this year.
C-aptain Tad Jones Is a strict disciplinarian and
he has already informed the Yale baseball candi-
dates that he will stand for no fOoing during the
training season The graduate coaching system is
also being tried out Yale this year. Tad Jones
is proba bly, the college catcher in the country
to-day Van Week. Merritt Dunbar and Parsons
will look after the pitching department. Some Of
the candidates for the outfeld positions Bo-
mar Iippitt. Murphy and Gushing. Coy. tie great
fulback will be tried out first base Wheaton.
another football player. and Williams will fight it
out for second base. Fels of the 1907 freshman
nine will probably play shortstop, and Logan. a
sophomore is a promising candidate for the third
corner.
Led by Captain Fennell. formerly of Cornell, and
coached by Arthur Irwin, the University of Penn
sylvania team starts the season with few vet
Grams and a host of youngsters. The 1907 season
was disappointing if a disastrous for the
Red and Blue. The graduate coach's biggest prob
lem is TO develop reliable pitchers. The infeld and
outfield positions will be well taken Of
Frank Y. Goodman. old Columbia player, is
looking after the Morningside Heights team this
year AS a Pennsylvania, Columbia badly IN
need of pitchers. There Is big squad at work in
the cage and hopeful reports are being sent out
Nearly all OF last years still in college
Although the 1907 Dartmouth is still col
lege and practically intact, most of its members
ineligible because they played summer base
ball II will take heroic work TO turn out a good
at Hanover this year.
Penn State. which defeated Cornell in ore OF the
greatest college games OF 1907, retains of her
last years team.