Evening journal., 1914-03-06
DELAWARE
BOYS WARMING
UP FOR GAME
Season Will Open on April rs
With the SWarthmOra
Club

special 10 THE EVENING JOURNAL
NEWARK, Del. March 6.-Delaware
College athletes are starting to turn
their attention to baseball now that
the basketball schedule is near an
end. Some of the baseball candidates
have been doing some indoor work
this week and practice outside will
be started as soon as the weather will
permit. Ground-keeper Lee Rose will
start to put the diamond in shape as
soon as the frost gets out of the
ground
The centre fielder will be the only
player whose position will touch the
quarter Of a mile running track in
the centre of the athletic field. The
diamond is so shaped that home runs
over the fence will practically be an
impossibility.
The baseball season will open with
Swarthmore here on April 25, and
this will be the first game on the new
field Some of the colleges that will
be on the schedule are: Bucknell, St.
Johns of Annapolis, or Johns Hop-
kins, of Baltimore; Pennsylvania Mil
itary College. Rock Hill, Rutgers,
Drexel and Stevens.
Delaware had a good season in
baseball in 1913, when more than a
majority of the games were won. but
even q better record should be made
this year, as the indications are the
team will be a stronger one. Some
material in the freshmen class will
strengthen the club in the spots
where it was weakest last season.
The only three varsity men who arc
not back this year are Jolls. a pitch
er; Beck, second base, and Hirsh-
man, an outfielder The pitching
staff promises to give Coach McAvoy
the most trouble. Jolls had been a
reliable member of the staff for four
years, and he will be missed There
are really but three men, Geoghegan,
Hoch and Wallace, who seem to have
any chance of making the pitching
starr. Geoghegan should prove a
valuable man to the team. He is a
southpaw, and as he has gained twen-
ty pounds in weight since last season.
he viii be much stronger than ever
before. Buck" Hoch, a brother OF
Harry Hoch, now with the st. Louis
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than any of the other twirlers, but
was bothered with a sore arm, which
made him wild. If his arm is in
shape this year, Hoch may be a star.
If these two men are in shape it is
possible that Wallace will not be
used in the box, but will cover an
outfieid position for his hitting
There will be three candidates for
catcher. Jimmy Huston has been the
varsity catcher for three seasons. In
case. however. either Wilson O'Dan-
iel or Tom Wilson. two freshmen,
who are out for the job, make good.
Coach McAvoy would likely shift
Huston to the outfield. He has play
ed the outfield and as he is a good
hitter. the change would likely
strengthen the team O'Daniel gives
promise of making a good man back
of the bat. He caught on the Oxford
High School before coming to Della
ware, and last summer was one Of the
best catchers in the Penn-Mar
League
Delaware's infeld should be the fast
est this wear that the Blue and Gold
has ever had Elmer Hoch, captain and
brother of the pitcher, looks to have
the first position cinched. Earl Lind
ana Doc Doherty, third and short
stop. respectively last season, are out
again. They will have their troubles,
however, to keep the positions if sew
eral freshmen come up to expectations.
Mike Fidance. several years with the
Wilmington High School team and last
summer a member of the fast Pusey
and Jones club of the Industrial League,
Wilmington, is a candidate for an in
field position and may land second base.
Ewing of Zion, Md, last summer, a star
in the Penn Mar League, is another
candidate for the infeld.
II was in the outfeld that Delaware
was weakest last season. George SLAM
sky and Harold Horsey, two other
freshmen, are expected to strengthen
the team in this particular. Slansky
PLAYED on both the Wilmington High
and Pusey and Jones teams with FL
dance. He is rated as good left
hand hitter and fast fielder. Horsey
comes from Dover and while not a hard
hitter is said to be an exceptionally
fast iniclder Harry Taylor, who play
I'd in some games last year will be out
again for the outield.