Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-04-11
COLLEGE MINES
At SEASON START.
EASTERN SCHOOLS GETTING IN.
~ ACTUAL COMPETITION
ron FIRST TINE

Special To The New
NEW YORK. April 10. While q
few OF the eastern college baseball
teams have already opened their
l9lA schedules. the majority OF them
have yet 20 play their first games
OF the year and this week will find
many OF them getting into actual
competition for the first time. There
are u number which have not yet
been able 10 get out IN their dia-
monds even for practice work and
both the coaches and players on these
teams are anxious 10 leave the Ia.
door work ua soon az possible.
University of Vermont CorOncll
aud Amherst Cllcges arc now on thull
annual southern trips and they have
had % chance IN play In a few games
with southern teams. That Cornell
aud Amherst viii be represented by
very good teams appears certain nj
the present time. Coach A. n.
sharpe appears 10 have mach
stronger squad at Cornell this year
than last aud with the experience
ol last year he should turn cut 81
! haca q nine able 90 cope with the
best.
Pennsylvania and Princeton have
both cot into action during the past
week. aud they promise tO be- repre-.
scented by varsity nines up 10 the
average OF past years. Coach Thomas
has q very good looking squad az
Pennsylvania and II hi pitching ma.
torial develops a. expected. the Red
and l!lue should stand well az the
md OF the season Coach CLARK .
has got his Princeton ninc OF tu a
winning start and the candidate
shape up like real baseball plnyers
Naic Locks iNw Strong Nine
AZ Yale the outlook l., even NOR.
promising than II WA AZ ihis time
last year when Coach Quinhy dcypl.
,pod remarkably strong college
team that was handicapped by tuo
hard schedule. The 8uuad will ~
South thif week and open ita 1914
season. With ~ iva best pitcher
~ 1913. three veteran iniielderH 1nd
Two star ouilicldcrs again available,
there should he little trouble In de.
vcloring three men g. fill the vacant
positions of catcher. first base and
lett field.
Harvard expects To Tet into action
this week with Colgate at Cambfi,iee
/ Thursday sexton has on 0f the be I
squads that has appeared Al Cam-
bridge In years and when II Is rc.
clled what he did with the candidate
0f 1919. II H. little Ia be- wondered
~ that Crimson followers are louk
ing forward 10 a very successful year
0h the diamond.
The pitching staff appears 10 be-
the only weakness IN the nine, aud II
Hitchcock shows the form expected
of him this department viii he well
looked out for. " W. Mahan 'Is,
the all-American talfback has been
'ryina ~ hesac ~ s,i'4t'ny ~
/ spring. aud is ahosiaF some OF his
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS form which
made his one ~ the D~st pitchers
ever turned out az Phillips AndOyef
! Academy. He was unable To pitch
In 1912 or 1913. playint in the gu.
deld but under the care OF Coach
Sexton he u showing mp well Ia
the box. and. unless he should h.
forced tC 20 back "a the ouiflcld. h.
VIII probably be one of the crimson .
inainstays this spring.
Fripp Doing Well nj Third
Third base. left fiel dand catcher
are the only vacancies iill. and
there Is u wealth OF material Tor
those positions. l'ripp OF last year s.
/ freshman nine Is practically mre oi
third. an deithcr Osborn or Water.
man will be found catching. Mahan
and Frye will probable b. used IN
the vacant outficld position when not
pitching.
Brown University has not YET been
able 10 do much Of any real ou'
door practice and II Is too early "a
get much OF a line on this team. but
Il " safe 10 say that the Province
rOlloge will put representative nine
on the field. ~ there appears 10 be
very good squad of candidate
available
The other New England college
teams will soon get into aciive work,
he outdoor season has been Hte
this spring and the men are bach
ward in their development. Report
Indicate that there are very few cot
legcs however which have not got
plcnty OF candidate OF promise aud
cyorythins now Indicates a most pro.
missing year for college baseball 10
q.