Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-09
COLLEGE BASE BALL
Championship Means Very
Little This Year.
BROWN NOT CONSIDERED
Providence School Left Out of CAL
culations Because Of Playing
of Semi Professionals.
By Edward r. Bushnell.

The championship Of the intercollegiate Z
diamond never meant SO little as IT doe
this year There has seldom been
, tine in recent history when any on
teap. could claim the supremacy OF the
college base ball world without havint
its position successfully assailed by sew
eral other Claimants. For this condition
of affairs the failure OF the big uni
versities of the east 10 organize an IN
tercoIlegiate base hall association Is en-
tireiy responsible.
As rule IL is possible. by making a
comparison OF scores, 10 arrive at
conclusion which is acceptable to ma
FORTY Of the critics. But this year 'he
task Is tremendously difncult because
OF the in and out" base ball which al
Of the leading teams have played NO.
one OF the half dozen or more contend
ers COR intercollegiate honors has any
thing like clean slate; some o5 t tar
teams which have the best record TOT
consistency have likewise fallen down a.
critical moments and played base ball OF
the school boy variety.
The claimants for interco!lesia'e T u
hail honors may be reduced TO SIX Ihes
are Princeton Cornell Brown. Amneis',
Williams and Dartmouth. All OF tne
other colleges. big and little. nave pee,
eliminated and have no claim worth
consideration. -
The writer also eliminates Brown Uni
yersity FOR the simple reason that Brown
plays NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ana makes no
bones about It, IL Brown were to De con-
sf6ered as q strictly amateur team, the
New Englanders would probably nave the
hest right to the title. But tnasmucn as
the Brown faculty permits the memoeIs
Of its team 10 play with senn-profession.
n and minor league clubs, no one Will
quarrel with the writer's arbitrary meth
"a Of ignoring their claim III may De ar
gued by the Brown men that All OF tne
Big colleges in reality use men VINO pray
mi-rrofessional base ball But 'nes. a a
feast have the merit Of having passed
rules prohibiting the use OF such men'
ard the majority Of them make an nom
est effort TO live up TO these rules. Dui
ing the summer months IL IS pfac,l.a al. =.
in,possible for the athletic authorities 10
control the actions of their students. ana
since those who violate the rules 40 SO
under assumed names. y is dlncuit LOT
the authorities 10 put their myers Oh
those who violate the rule
Compelled to make a decision between
the Ave colleges which remain, the writ
er awards FIRST place to princeton. l~o
weeks ago Cornell stood the BEST chance
of being recognized as tie irtercolieslate
crsmnion of the year. but the 1thacans
fell down by failing to win the SECOND
game from Yale and by losing their thisu
game TO Pennsylvania A furtner reason
To- disu,issing Cornell is the fact ina,
they did not have a game scheduled with
Harvard, and only one with Prlnceton
the latter resulting in Tie, IT when
Princeton carried OF as many hohors
rs did Cornell.
pared with former Tiger mines. but the
Orange and Black was good enough 10
win the series from Yale, but REQUIRED
three games and to win the only game
PLAYED with Harvard.
Both of the games which the Tigers
played with Pennsylvania were marreu
by poor base ball, both teams pelhS aoout
equal offenders. At the same tiIIie
Princeton split even win the $1,000
winning the first and losing the second
rame. Princeton's case IS weakened cor
siderably by her record against the minor
colleges. In the only game PLAYED WIN u.
W-flliams the New Englanders won oy
the decisive score of to J. TINS game
howeyer was PLAYED early in the season.
and Davis, the star Williams tWnie,.
held the Tigers to a single hit and struck
nut fifteen men. This sort OF pitehiiis
would have defeated nearly any team
~, day I, is also true that Princeton
lost her only game played with AmnersI
I'm, the latter team was at no time CON
sidered a factor i'm determining the inter
collegiate championship Among .ns
Brown s TO . Lafayette to 2. and peat
the strong Michigan nine TO l.
The Ithacans by playing an extra-in-
ming game with Princeton. In Which tne
final result was Tie O. hiHU
avoided honors with Princeton. but the
Re-, ,hey could do with the Yale team,
which Princeton beat. was TO VIII anu
Iose The Harvard team. which frlnce-
ton also beat. was not met py .o q, h 81 q
The only other basis Of comparison Is the
Pennsylvania series. Here Corneil won
,hree out OF four games with the qua
xers. while the best Princeton couiu W
was to split even on series vi W.
games Blu; Pennsylvania was not
serious contender for intercollegiate nom
ors this year so that the result OF shese
two series Is not Of any great benent TO
Cornell.
Cornell Divides With Williams.
Cornell played two games with the
strong Williams nine. winning the
nrst. with Davis pitching for VIII
lams, but losing the second. Corner!
also played a series OF three games
with Dartmouth. but lost the series,
the Dartmouth men winning the first
and third games.
What claims williams had to rank
frst In intercollegiate base ball were
destroyed by Amherst when the latter
~on both games. Amherst was defeated
by Lafayette and also by Harvard Inc
Massachusetts, men dc not meet fale'
Pennsylvania or coiunSia. plin,
schedule and did not play many OF the
bis teams. and none of these more than
one game that ore Is disposed to treat
their claims lightly.
The same argument applies TO Dart
mouth and Williams Practically all OF
Williams success was due TO the mag
n.hcent pitching Of DAVIS. This man was
a successor to Templeton. who made
Euch a record for Williams last year.
Williams also beat Yale. besides break
ing even with Cornell and defeating
Princeton But. as was stated before. IL
Is hardly fair 10 rank Williams. Amherst
and Dartmouth minor colleges. which
played only one game with the Dig uni
yersities above the members OF the big
I'VE" on the record Of these individual
contests They invariably played these
games as mid-week matches and most
OF them before the big colleges opened
their championship season II the minor
colleges were obliged 10 play two instead
OF one game with each of these big col
leges, and big universities prepared foi
them as they do for the championship
contests the minor institutions wouic
not make nearly so good record 81 they
appear TO do.
Base Ball Was Mediocre.
In considering the character of base
ball played this year. II Is only fair 70
admit that II has not reached the usual
high standard made by college men
Princeton and Cornell had the most con-
tha