Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
.RAH-RAH BASEBALL
LACKS TEAM WORK
Selection of AII-Star Bunch Hard
Task This Year-0Id
Mines Best

AS the intercollegiate baseball sea-
son is drawing to close and the rah-
rah fans are preparing to pack their
duds until another spring, the rooters
of the respective southern colleges are
beginning to really awaken to the fact
that the 1910 season of college baseball
has opened.
During the last two years the
coaches of local institutions have been
thrown entirely upon their own re-
sources to devise ways and means to
carry their teams through fairly sue
cessful year. AS the baseball fever has
spread among the non-scholastic fans
there seems to have been growing
among the cap and gown aggregations
germ of another stamp. Gorton.
Cromwell, Stanton, Oliver, all are
weary of the strain of developing men
for work on the diamond who have lost
the greater part of their interest in the
sport.
1t is not we'll to be always recount
ing the records of the olden days-to
be retelling constantly the incidents OF
past trays on the fields of the national
game and yet there are few of the
close followers of the game as played
by the local schools and colleges who
do not feel in their hearts that the
has-been teams are really the better
after all. Better, not only in spas
modic intervals, but better as whole,
taking the season from spring prac-
tice to the close of school as the basis
of computation.
TEAM WORK LACKING
Material, the coaches say, is plentiful,
but if anything, of a variety much in
ferior to the foemen of history, and
yet, and here is the point upon which
the southern trainers are agreed, the
I1fC q nd a
lacked that essential feature of sue
cess, the keynote of all baseball, team
work.
The bleachers have yelled, but the
noise makers have been scattered.
Concentration of energy has been a
thing to be theorized upon instead OF
being the daily maxim of fans on the
field and on the grandstand. 1t is sell
dom that a great star is developed from
a college diamond except through
gradual processes of evolution, but the
development of the college team, from
which it derives its strength, IS team
work.
If the bleachers will get together and
yell from the first inning to the last,
from the siren to the last drum yell; If
the college as a whole will support the
team and give it every encouragement,
with even a mediocre collection of bat
ters and flelders, the spirit of the
school will carry them through. The
trouble with intercollegiate ball in the
south is a little too much of it, or
perhaps faulty manner of conducting
the schedule. Whatever the cause the
result still stands as monument to
somebody's or everybody's neglect OF
the careful cultivation of the art of
team work" from the pleaGher ana
field
AS the panorama of the collegiate
schedule is now about complete there
will be a general measure taken for the
selection of the all Southern California
intercollegiate nine. Pencils and paper
have been covered with hieroglyphics
of divers kinds, when wary ''profs"
have not been looking, figuring out the
favorites, but it has been no easy
task.
STELLAR WORK SCARCE
Stellar work has been sadly lacking
this year. and "phenoms" are a thing
of the pastor the future. There still
remains q game or two of the schedule
to be played, and some dark horses
may be on the rampage, but the minds
of most of the choosers are made up
as to the general makeup of the COM
posite aggregation. Trotter, pitcher for
the Methodsts, might have secured a
berth except for his twirlng OF last
Saturday against the Claremonters'
| Lockwood of Occidental has the great
est number of strikeouts to his credit
and was on the long end whenever he
received the slightest encouragement
from his comrades. He would be
| chosen for first man on the HEAVIER s
hill with Kingman of Pomona close
second.
johnson, Occidental, and Shut, Po-
mona, would vie with each other for
the backstop position, Johnson having
a little the better of the argument.
This gives Oxy the first honors in the
way of a battery and Pomona second.
Whittier's "Big" Renneker would come
in for commendation for his work be-
hind the bat for the Quakers, but his
work did not show the heady game
of Oxy's big glove man.
When it comes to choosing the sack