The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-25
PLAYERS
WOULD Be STRONG
An an "All-Star" Team Col
legiate Players Would be
Well Nigh Invincible.

New York, March 25.-Among the
endless variety of "all' teams which
have been picked in the realm of sport
there is one field which has been
baseball field. All college mines arc
chosen annually. but nobody has tack
led an ALP college team; that is. n
chosen without any limit.
An all college team of this sort can
be found which would Inc as strong an
array as could be put together, whetn-
er professional or what not, for a ma
tority of its players would be men
who since leaving college have turned
professional. The fact that they have
turned professional and been profess
SIGNALS of high rank is the hest proof
of their ability. So, naturally, the
place for members of this Hypothetical
team is in II professional ranks.
The colleges have had players who
had they turned pro would have been
among the best. and there are d. few
that never turned pro who ncverthe-
less were so proficient that they make
the %all-college team for all time, but
there haven't been many of these. In
baseball the two major leagues are
the highest measure of skill n con-
sequently demonstration of ability TO
travel in this company is the best of
reasons for choosing anybody who has
done SO for the team in question.
Following Team Il Winner.
The field is a wide one. but the fol-
lowing team would not only he the
strongest team of college players pos
sible to select. but as said. it could
hold. its own with any kind of an all
star aggregation: Pitchers. Carter.
Yale: Coombs. Colby: Plank. Gettys-
burg: Bender. Carlisle; Mathewson.
Bucknell: Catchers, Meyers. Dart
mouth: Jones. Yale: Reid. Harvard:
Kafer. Princeton. First base. Chase,
umbia. Shortstop. Barry. Holy Cross.
Third base, Devlin. Georgetown. Out
field. Fultz, Brown; Cree. Pennsylvan-
ia State; Thomas. Pennsylvania. For
substitutes. intielder, Derrick, Gcor-
gia university, would fill the bill, and
for substitute outfielder, Birmingham,
Cornell.
The foregoing team is strong beyond
the average in every position. Any
manager would jump at the chance. of
plotting such a team through a big
league race. The non-professionals
on the list are Carter, Reid, Kafer n
Jones. Neal Snow. who played first
base and the outfield at Michigan. and
Harry keator. Yale captain and out
fielder. are mighty nearly entitled to a
place on the team, for they were col
lSSS pldSCiS VI CACepIlOIdI Shlll. Jan
Stahl. Illinois. and Fred Tenney.
Brown. could be placed on the team.
but both were catchers when iii col
lege. and besides the team has Chase.
White. Georgetown, could be substitute
ed for Plank without hurting the
pitching department much.
Carter Wonderful Pitcher.
Walter Carter was a wonderful col
lege pitcher in his day and good
onN,ICh fn,. Tho hio 1oaCro hod ms rol-
ed to become a professional. Bill Reid
of Harvard. Tad Jones Of Yale and
Red Kafer of Princeton were all back
stops above the average. heady catch
ers, good throwers mt hard hitters.
They had the native ability to develop
into first class catchers as profession
ais. Chief Meyers had demonstrated
his ability. but he has made such big
improvement as a Giant that 1t is a
question whether he was in the class
with the three men mentioned when
he was in college.
Coombs, White. Bender. Mathewson
what better pitching staff could any
club want? And then an infield COM
posed of Chase. Collins, Barry and
Devlin-why. that's as air-tight a
quartet of inner garden guardians as
inf1eld ave. 1t is made up Of fielders.
baserunners. hitters and every one Of
the four a smart ball player.
AS to the outfield. it isn't as strong
a hitting trio as some. but a pretty ca
pable batting combination neverthe-
less. and a combination of batters.
sliders and base runners that makes it
a rare run-getting combination. Cree
is a 300 batter and Fultz and Thomas
had their 800 years when they were
in h game. Fultz was one of the
best lider the game has had. and he
and Thomas covered a wide expanse of
ground on the defense. 1t also would
be a good throwing outield.
Even Hugh Jennings, who doesn't
enthuse over college players. might re-
joice in a team such as this.