The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
SETON HALL
HAS
SCHEDULE
Will Meet Most of Eastern
Colleges on Diamond
Next Season.

When the baseball season Of 1908 comes
around Seton Hall College will not be
wanting for ZACH Of good material to com.
pose a strong nine. Neither will the South
Orange c~ollegians have, by any means, an
Easy time Of 1t. for the schedule announced
today by Manager Thomas Mullins con-
tains games with some Of the best college
teams in the East, and is one of the
longest ever arranged. Besides the teams
from which last years sons of Old Setonia
won, games have been arranged with
Dartmouth. Syracuse, Lafayette and Man
haitian College. Contests with the Car
Isle Indians, Lehigh and Amherst arc
pending.
Holy Cross is also scheduled 70 play two
games. One Of these wifi take place at
the Jersey City Eastern League grounds
and the second will be decided at Wor-
cester, Mass. It will be remembered by
followers of college baseball teams that
Seton Hall clashed with the Massachusetts,
Catholics at Worcester last year and was
victorious in a game filled with spectacular
plays by the score of 2 to L Another
game was arranged to be played at Jersey
City, but was called off on account OF In
element weather. Eve since the drubbing
given the wearers of the purple and white
by the Setonians much rivalry has sprung
up between the two.
John Ferry, known as "Young Cy
Ferry" who captained last years team
so successfully, will again lead the South
Orangeites. and according to his predic-
\ tions Seton Hall will have a considerably
stronger aggregation OF ball tossers. Be-
sides himself, Harry Lynch, James Ma
honey. John Meegan, John Clarke and
Robert Hillock. of last years team, some
new material has been added and will
strengthen the team greatly.
Captain Ferry will do the bulk OF tho
twirling. He will be assisted by James
Burke. a recruit who halls from Clinton,
Mass. He was the sta box artist for 81.
Charles College, Baltimore, Md, last sea-
son. Lynch, who was the teams regular
first baseman. will again be seen at the
initial bag. He viii also do some Pitch
ing.
In the place held down for many years
by Bernard STAFFORD. who graduated last
June, second base will be taken care of
by James DAILY, another new man to Seton
Hall. He comes from Bayonne and has
heretofore played on the Bergen Point and
Pottsville, Pa. teams. Robert Barrett
who also left the college last fall. will be
replaced by Harry johnson at third base
johnson, the only other new player, is a
native of North Governorsda1e. Conn,
where he played on school teams last year
and entered Seton Hall In the fan.
Meegan and Mahoney will ngain alter.
h'AE bthiAa IhN bhA anu III Ii lGAd I'D \
will resume his last seasons position al
short, and Hillock will play in the field
again. Edward Lang, one of last years
outfielders, who graduated, is now in
Italy, studying for the priesthood. while
Thomas Kearny. who also was a fielder
on the 1907 team. has entered the seminary
at Seton Hall and will not be allowed tp
play this year.
A start will be made by the
suburban collegians. They will play eight
of their scheduled games in April. or that
number three will be played ON the first
three consecutive days of the month.
The complete schedule is as follows:
College of the City of New York. at
New York. April /; Bowdoin College. at
mont. at South Orange, April 8; College OF
the City OF New York. April Is: Holy
Cross. at Jersey city, April IS; Buckneil,
at South Orange, April 20; Trinity, at
South Orange, April %; Villa Nova, at
Philadelphia, April %; Dartmouth. at
South Orange, May 2; Syracuse, at South
Orange, May 8; st. Johns College. at
South Orange, May Z; Niagara University.
al South Orange, May s.; Manhattan, at
|, South Orange, May ~; Boston College, at
South Orange. May 10; NAV %, pending:
Nova, at South Orange, May 30: Franklin
and Marshall. az South Orange, June 1
and Lafayette, at T~5astop, June IT,
The home games will be played on
Setonia Field at the rear Of the main coli
lege building. Besides the team already
Kicked by Captain Ferry some new young
sters are expected 10 show up in the prac-
tise which will be started shortly in a
cage in Alumni Hall.