New-York tribune., 1911-01-15
ATHLETICS At COLUMBIA
Dave FuItz Re.engaged to Coach
Baseball Nine.
OUTLOOK FOR TEAM BRIGHT
Ambitious Plans Being Laidsto
Develop Strong Track
Team.

Develop Strong Track
Team.
II was announced by the Columbia Tat.
versity Athletic Association yesterday r..
Dave Fultz will coach the Columbia hs..-
ball team during the coming season. n,,,x
coached the nine on Morningside He,r,,.
last year and turned out the best tAar
that the Blue and White had had in A.
ade The Columbia management tried !.
get him at the end OF the season to sim /.
three-year contract, but at that time he ~.
unwilling to bind himself for such ,o,.
term. az the law practice which he has ~
gun since giving up professional ban /.
growing so fast that II takes UP nearly .u
his time. He has consented, however. 4.
teach the Columbia men for another M.
at least, and II he can spare the time n 1.
probable that he will be back again p<,s
year. w
Under Fultz the Columbia nine en,oy.x
a very successful season, defeating anon,
others Pennsylvania, Brown and Wen
Point. This year F'ultz will have prset.
cally a veteran squad with which to wo,k.
as only three men OF the 1910 team have
been lost through graduation or for oths,
causes. Lommell. catcher; O'Connel. third
base. and Lang. in the field. being the onlv
members OF the nine who will not be- bs,k
None Of them was in the lineup regular.
~. however. for Fultz let Shibley. Moor.
and Shaw, all freshmen. work out Win
the varsity combination in nearly all a.
the games The team will be especially
strong in the pitching department. for in
addition to Murray Lee, who has been IA.
mainstay of the Blue and White In the nor
for the last three years, Fultz will have
Ulrich. sophomore, and several promls.
ing freshmen. Jube. the Amherst outhelle,
who is signed with the Yankees. is TAX.
ing a law course al Columbia. and effort,
will be made 10 have him assist Fultz
The schedule has not yet been announced.
but it is expected that ii will be ready
within a week
II the plans OF the Columbia track man.
agement are approved by the directors os
the general athletic association, the Morn.
best balanced schedules ever arranse4
After lapse Of eight years track relations
have been resumed with Syracuse. and
meet will be held in the Salt City stadiua
on May s. Another contest has been tents
lively scheduled with Johns Hopkins. and
negotiations are being pushed for smi.
lar arrangement with Dartmouth and an
other Of the New England colleges.
This change OF policy on The part OF the
Columbia authorities has come aboat
through the recognition OF the fact that
70 compete with only two Of the larger
teams. as was the custom heretofore.
served 10 emphasize the weakness rather
than the strength of the Columbia teams.
Meeting only Pennsylvania and Princeton,
the local track men did not get the right
kind of practice that resulted in a gradual
development leading TO a elimination IN
the intercollegiate. Whatever good men
Columbia had were worked to their lint.
in order that they might make a re-
spectacle showing against the cracks q
the opposing teams. who were booked ds
champions. The result was that when the
Columbia men did get into the intercol,
legiates they were more or less over
trained and never did themselves justice.
With the present year. however. the uer
plan will be put into effect and the Colu'n-
bia men will meet teams Of their own
calibre or nearer their own calibre thia
was the case when they competed against
the members OF the Big Four be-
ginning was made three years ago when
Columbia got dual meet with Annapolis.
For every season since then the New
York City team has gone down TO the
Naval Academy, and although the contests
provided keen enough competition. the
great mass OF the followers OF the team
was unable to journey TO Annapolis. win
college teams 1t will be different. for II IS
expected that year and year agreements
will be made whereby Columbia viii alter
nately play visitor and host.
The resumption Of relations with Syra-
cusA is a matter that has given no litts
satisfaction on Morningside Heights, ior
although there was bad feeling between
the two after Columbia called on a scnea-
uled track meet back in 1898, that has iohs
since been forgotten and the institutions
have been trying 10 get back TO gooa
standing with each other.
special two-day trip which the Colum'
bia fencing team took 10 the upstate COL
lege last winter did more 10 cement tns
good feeling than anything else, and tnn
was followed out by an arrangement.
whereby the Syracuse baseball team played
the Columbia nine in New York on the
Columbia commencement DAY. and tns
local team reciprocated by going 10 Syra-
cuse on the latters commencement
Determined 10: 10 be left In the Iu'on'
the Columbia freshmen have decided thas
they will begin Immediately to collect 'n'
70 900 which each first year class IN Mo'n.
inRside Heights has TO collect before
can boat its freshman crew. IN past year,
the freshmen have had hard time scisp'
ing together the required amount, chieV
because they let II go 10 the last minus.
This wear they say they will have 'he'.
crew safe financially before the Ice se'
ont of the Hudson sufficiently for the m''
N get IN shells on the water. They nav
set themselves an ambitious schedule 'oN
for they will have race with elthet Wv
Vale or Harvard freshmen, and VIII s''S
take mart in the American Henley ress.-
on the Schuylkill. before they set OH ~