New-York tribune., 1912-12-22
LAUDER MAKING PLANS
New Baseball Coach at Colum-
bia Is Optimistic.
LITTLE WORK IN CAGE
No Southern Trip This Year for
Members of the Blue and
White Squad.

Billy Lauder. Columbia's new baseball
coach, is laying plans for next season,
when he hopes to put baseball on Morn
! ingside Heights on a better foundation
| than it has been IN the last half dozen
years Lauder is practically assured OF
/ long term contract at Columbia. This
! in itself will mean more to the game than
practically any other one plant that he
/ has in mind for the organization Of the
/ 1913 campaign.
| Since Lauder left Columbia, six years
ago. the Blue and White has had no fewer
than five coaches. and the result has been
! that the game has become much de-
moralized Two of these five coaches
! have been graduates, and the changes
from graduate TO professional coach and
vice versa have had additional evil effects.
/ with a permanent head coach, however.
Harry Fisher. the graduate manager OF
athletics. who was in charge of the team
| last spring feels that baseball should
AZ least make some headway. When
Lauder was at Columbia before he deyel-
oped. among others, Eddie Collins and
| Frank Nohowel. Tyler and Tilt, who
were Columbia's pitchers In those days.
were among the best in the college base
ball world
Lauder will not call out his candidates
until late in February and will use the
| cage work merely 10 get line on the
ability Of the men who report. He thinks
that little can be accomplished in a cage
so small as the one Columbia has, and
until the squad can begin outdoor work
or South Field the practice will be only
nominal The pitchers. however, he ex-
poets to develop early. and he will have
candidates for the battery report fort
night or maybe a month before he calls
out the men for the other positions on the
| team.
Contrary to the plan that has been fol-
| lowed at Columbia for the last two years
the team will have no Southern training
trip. Last year and the year before the
Southern trip was anything but sue
cess, and the extra expense which h
placed on the baseball association was
not justified in the eyes Of the athletic
| authorities Next spring the team Will
practise on South Field, and will have
more early season games than usual in
order to make up for the Southern trip
1t is probable that daily games will be
arranged during the Easter holidays.
The Blue and White schedule is not yet
ready. but it contains more games than
| II Lo- L.,I rxEan
three and maybe twenty-four, contests In
all will be played, ana all but three or
four will take place on the home dia-
mond. The agreement with Cornell and
| Pennsylvania whereby Columbia has
series of two games with each still holds.
and in addition Columbia will have games
with Princeton, Harvard and Yale. II
will be the first time that the Morningside
! Heights nine will have played practically
all of the big Eastern teams in one sea
son. Harvard and Yale were on the
schedule last year. but Princeton was not
and the year before that Columbia met
Princeton and Yale and failed 10 meet
! Harvard. The Yale and Princeton games
will be two OF the four out Of town con
tests. but the Harvard game will be
played on South Field.
| 'Cross-country running is not 70 be
| dropped by Columbia. according TO X NJ
Bonslb, captain OF the varsity track team.
who made a statement 10 that effect in
THE Columbia Spectator yesterday. The
reason why Columbia did not compete in
the intercollegiate run at Ithaca on NO
vember 90 was that the expenses OF the
bat
track association.
while the showing made by our cross
country team this fall was not as brill
liant as we might have wished reads the
statement. ut was surely nothing TO be
ashamed Of. and when II Is considered
that we have practically none Of the con-
veniences for 'cross-country training en-
joyed at other colleges, where the neces-
sary hills and dales are readily accessible.
the results attained are most praise
worthy. We beat the College of the City
OF New York and made a game fight
against Princeton. and as far as our Win
drawal from the intercollegates at ITHACA
is concerned, this was due entirely TO the
depleted condition of the athletic treas
ury. caused by the lack Of support by the
student body This trip would have cost
more than $500.
"As to the future policy cross-country
running Will not be dropped al Columbia.
and if the students next year are an keen
about paying up their A. a. subscriptions
as they have been this year in knocking
the cross country team we will have
team at the Intercollegiate and repre-
sentative one"