Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-01-16
BASEBALL AT THE UNIVERSITY
Local Season Will Open April 26
with Bowdoin Game.
George l.. Winter Engaged ms COacl,
and Most of Inst Years Team
VIII Again lie on the
Diamond.

Baseball will now be the topic of con-
so far as sports CO. and the athletic COM
mittee, at meeting on Saturday, APP
pointed George l.. Winter. we'll known
in baseball circles to furnish the knowl-
edge of the game which is calculated to
lead Vermont through another successful
season The material for the team is said
already n certainty.
Winter, besides being a good baseball
man, Is we'll qualified to coach the team
as he has not only played ball with
number Of players but is we'll acquainted
with Vermont ideals and the customs and
habits OF the university. He watched the
team work out last year and knows what
every man who held down a position dur
Ing that season can do and. what is more,
his knowledge of baseball is respected
by every man who played last year.
Winters baseball career began when
he pitched for the Mllersville State
normal school in Pennsylvania He later
went to Gettysburg College and pitched
and played outfeld. alternating with
Eddie Plank, now Of big league fame.
From college he went Immediately to the
Boston Americans and was with them
for more than eight years, during which
time he won a reputation for his inside
knowledge of baseball. From Boston he
went to Detroit and was with that team
when It won the American League
! pennant Following his big league career
Of 10 years he went to Montreal and from
there was transferred to Toronto. For the
past few years he has been playing man
ager and captain Of the st. Johns team
and while with this aggregation has had
Winkler and other Vermont men under
| him. Under his leadership. the team which
was far down the ladder in the league
rose rapidly and finished we'll.
| The outlook, so far as material goes
! Is good for the reason that most OF the
| stars of last year will he eligible to play
this spring. Malcolm and Winkler are
back for the box artists. and MayfortE
will no doubt again oficiate behind TIL,
bat. Jake" Flaherty will captain tn,
team and everybody who knows him be
lieves that he will make good. In add
ton to these, there are Dutton, Berry
Maiden. SWEET and others who can b,
depended on. Halstein cannot play 70
the reason that he signed up with pro
is debarred for the same reason. as h.
signed up with the Giants. Fraser, VIII,
played second base. has left college an,
Mcdonald and Williams arc lost through
graduation.
The following tentative schedule ha
been prepared by Manager Tredck
HOME GAMES
April .6.-Bowdoin.
May 3.-Trnity.
May S.-Lafayette
! May 15.-Norwich
May l7.-Syracuse.
May 2s.--Notre Dame
May 30-Tufts
June l3.-Cornell.
June 19.-University of Hawaii
June 2l.--Dartmouth.
OUT OF TOWN GAMES.
/ April l9.-Yale at New Haven
, April 0.-Brown at Providence.
, May Harvard ut Cambridge
May 2,-Tufts at Medford.
May 22.-Dartmouth at Hanover
June s-Holy Cross at Worcester
June 7.--Amherst at Amherst.
, June 23.-Williams at WILLIAMSBURG
h Negotiations are In progress toward 81
t curing a number OF other games. but ha,
not yet been completed. An Easter tr
Is also in the air but 1t will proba bl
materialize. Practise will begin in Il
y cage about the middle OF next month.