The Washington herald., 1911-03-19
Photo by National Press Association
By s. w. HARRIS.

number OF practice games 10 give the
baseball experts an exact line on the
makeup of the regular Buff and Blue
varsity nine and what can be expected
CT it in the intercollegiate championship
games, the first of which will start Sat
urday, March %, with Mount st. Joseph's
College at Baltimore. nevertheless the
prospects for a successful diamond cam
paign by the East Side college are the
brightest for many years.
There is every indication that this
years nine should be superior to those
of 1908 and 1910 which are conceded to be
the two best baseball years yet had by
Gallaudet.
Capt Battiste has one Of the largest
squads of baseball candidates in the his
tory of the Kendall Green institution
constantly at practice. The squad con-
sists of thirty-two men, nearly one-half
CT them being veteran players. The In
dian leader found his hands so full that
he divided the squad into two divisions,
he having charge of the varsity division
and Ted Hughes having been chosen to
lead the reserve division. 1t is a strange
coincidence that the two captains are in
the sophomore class. and both graduated
from the Mount Airy CPa-) School for the
Deaf at Philadelphia, before entering
the Washington college.
Host of Good Pitchers.
All the fears of weak pitching corps
for Gallaudet have apparently been set
at rest when Cotton Brick and Scalp
cr'' Battiste, the two veteran twirlers of
last season, have showed their old form
in practice, and they will be helped
great deal by the addition of Fred Moore,
4 promising younGster from Kansas. Be
fore entering Gsllaudet, Brick was cap
tain and pitcher of the New York Mill
tary School for the Deaf ball team in
Farwood, in the suburbs of Gotham. the
only school of its kind in the world. and
he easily made good both on the baseball
and football teams in his first year at the
East Side college. This is "Cotton's'
junior year.
Capt. Battiste is full-blooded Cata-
wanda Indian. a native OF South Caro-
lima, but a graduate of the Philadelphia
school already mentioned. Those who
have watched the ''scalper" in action de-
clare he is almost duplicate Of Chief
Gender, the great Indian pitcher of the
Philadelphia worlds champions. In fact,
the Gallaudet Indian has often seen the
Philadelphia redskin in action and
learned a great deal from him while in
the City of BrotherIy Love. Battiste has
the distinction of being the first Indian
baseball captain at Gallaudet, but never
theless is popular at the college, even
when he rules his players with an iron
handS
~ AEao-1 4. 5onidadI1y Tho 6pd ~ tho
Litching corps from recruit ranks. This
is his first year at Gallaudet. but he
pitched for the Kansas school nine at
Olathe in previous seasons. He received
his initial lessons from Luther Taylor,
the famous ex-Giant pitcher. who was
much cherished by "Scrarpy John Nc
Graw. and lis now with the Buffalo East
ern League team. sireat things are ex-
pected of the westerner from a State
where cyclones reign supreme.
The catching department of the Buff
and Blue nine is decidedly superior to
that of the previous season. Walter
Rockwell is a graduate of the Connectt-
cut School at Hartford and this is his
second season on the Gallaudet varsity
nine. Byrne, a junior from Iowa. and
Decker, a new student from Kansas,
will help him out in case of necessity.
First Busemnn Craven Sick.
First base is hard problem just now
at Gallaudet, as Craven, the veteran
guardian of that sack, is down with
measles, and Battiste is trying out Mil
Ter. a Maryland freshman, at the first
station. The keystone sack, which has
always been weak spot on the Buff and
Blue nine, is being we'll cared for by
Elwood Stevenson, new New York
player He was the leading swatter on
his Empire state nine last season, and is
conceded TO be finished infielder.
The difficult corner is in the hands of
John. r. Hover, the veteran Gallaudet
aII-around athlete This is Howerss last
year at the college, as he graduates in
June, and his clever fielding and deadly
stick work will be sadly missed by Gal
laudet next year. He was on. The WASH
ington Heraid's all-District college stars
nine last year at shortstop, Capt. Sitter
ding, of the Georgetown nine, being
placed at third base.
No regular man has yet been decided
upon for shortstop. although DURAN,
second-year man from Western Penn
sylvania School, is holding IL while Roll
Ter and Jacobson. of Colorado and Min
pesota, respectively, are out of the game
temporarily.
GaIIaudet,s outfield is well fortified by
the veterans. Blanehford. junior from Ar
kansas; Arras. another junior, from Ohio;
and Morris. a senior. from Georgia. The
trio are better than 800 hitters.
The management of the baseball de-
partnIent of Gallaudet College is in the
hands of Shelby W. Harris, Mississippi
graduate, and member of the junior
class at GAliaudet. He managed iiis
school nine before coming to Washington.
Aipha William Patterson. a second-year
Arkansan. IL proving himself to be a ca
pabie assistant manager. and viii have
the charge of the strong Gallaudet Re
serves
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