Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-07
COLLEGE SPORTS.
Prospects of Coming Season Ball Mines
 Other Sporting Notes,

under way and before the month of March has run its course the first ! games Of the season will have been played, provided inciement weather does not balk the schedule makers. As result of the indoor training to | date some idea of the relative strength l of the larger institution hines Is avail | able and the coaches are already pre- dieting some close series in the play for intercollegiate honors. Chief at 1 tention centers on the Yale prospects | at present. owing to the remarkable record achieved by the New Haven team last spring.
 l With one or two exceptions the Yale team of 1913. which won 2S games out l of 34 played, Is intact The loss of Rfddell at first base leaves gap in l the fnfield. but with the string of sub stitutes and last years freshman team available this position should be filled without trouble, Another vacant po- sitien Is that of SchoheId, left fielder. In these two positions Yale Is weakest All the other members of the team are in college. Captain Blossom at short, Cornish at second, and Reilly | at third base form one of the very best | lnfields of any college team this sea- 1 son, Middlebrook and Pumpelly will again play center and right field, re- speetively. The veteran pitchers are Gile and Brown, both of whom can l be counted on to equal the good work 1 done last year. Hunter will be the | mainstay behind the bat
 Harvard's Prospects.
 The Harvard team, which had the | fstinotion of winning the only series that Yale lost last year, will take the 1 field this spring with almost as many veterans available as the Blue. But three regulars were lost by gradua- tion last year. In the pitching de- partment Frye and Hitchcock form | the nucleus of an effective pitching staff In addition Boyle, Macdonald and Whitney are also promising pitch ing candidates The position of catch 1 CT, left vacant by the graduation of borne, Waterman or Wallace. Ayres will probably retain his po- sition at first base. although Nash, captain of last years freshman team, | is a likely candidate, but Coach Sex ton may decide to place Nash in the outfeld in Alsop's place. Clark will be at second, unless it Is deemed nec- l essary to use him behind the bat. 1 In that case, Harvey. Phillips and Frhppe will be the contestants for the position. Captain Wingate will remain at shortstop. At third base, some of | the candidates mentioned for second is | likely to fill the gap left by the grad | uation of Tones. Gannett should re- l tain his position in right field and l Hardwick take care of center field. A l 1uulD0T OI new InSL VIII COnpSIG TOT i the left fild position, the more prom ising being Nash Curtis and Mil l holland
 The Harvard 1914 team will be a hard hitting organization judging from | the averages of the men last year es- pecially in the championship games Most of last years freshmen who are trying for positions this year were 1 good batters so that the team should in no way suffer from the addition of these men to the ranks.
 PRINCETON.
 l At Princeton seven members of the years freshman nine Lamberton, Deye l spring. They are Wall, catcher; Wood and Copeland pitchers Captain Rhoads, first base; Gill, second base Green and Laird outfelders. Wood and | Copeland were the mainstay of the pitching staff last season. From last years freshInon nine Lamberton, Deye and Link are expected to dc we'll, especially the two first named. Behind the bat, Kell- 1 leher of the undefeated 1913 team is likely to be close second to Wall | for catching honors. In the infeld Captain Rhoads is the only likely can | didate for first base. CHI, second base ] Hast spring may be shifted to short 1 leaving Peacock prominent for the l keystone position. Law and O'Kane both of the freshman tnfield, will also
 
 short. Third base will be difficult to l cover. Shea played an exceedingly good game last spring but his ankle
 which was broken in football, may | keep him out of the game. For the
 outfield Green and Laird regulars, are available Hanks, a substitute last sea son and Hoyt. Click and G. A. Pea cock of the freshman nine. should round out into likely material.
 OTHER COLLEGES.
 Cornell, Pennsylvania and Williams and q number of other colleges of the east also loom up as formidable con | tenders for diamond honors and 1t is a certainty that the struggle for varsi- ty baseball supremacy will be unusual | ly keen. Columbia has also entered l the field with renewed determination to gain a place among the leaders this season as is evidenced by the engage ment of two of the leading coaches oi the country. With Billy Lush and An dy Coakley in charge of the candidates there is reason to believe that New York University will be represented by a strong team. Both Lush and l ence, both in professional baseball and | as college coaches.
 Brown.
 The 1914 baseball team at Browr University will not be greatly strength i ened by material drawn from the IreShman class, 1T the preliminary
 work in the cage can be depended up on. The first call for candidates was
 answered by 25 freshmen and by 20 upperclassmen not previously on the
 Varsity squad.
 1 Of last years team, Captain Shell who joined the Boston Rsd Sox, Crow thew who played with New Haven Eayrs who was with Pittsburgh, and Reilly who signed with Baltimore, are lost. There remains as a nucleus Cram
 and Henry, pitchers, Andrews, first
 base, Fewhill Dukette and Johnston to complete the iRfleld, with BaSiRgten Dike, Durgin and Captain Nash as outie1ders.
 Harvard Crew Prospects.
 Harvard crew authorities are mucf elated over the successful outcome oi the negotiations with Coach Jim Wra.S
 who recently signed a five year renew
 al of his contract with the Cambridge University. Although the terms were Enot made public it is understood that
 Wray received the salary increase which he had requested. The Unior
 Boat Club of Detroit stood ready tc
 engage WEay had he failed to- Eeacz