Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-04-08
COLLEGE BASEBALL SEASON
OPENS SATURDAY

Saturday afternoon, April 10th
Alma College baseball team will oper
its 1915 season with game against
the Mt. Pleasant Indians and from
then ON until the ninth day of June
the Presbyterians will appear against
opponents about three times a week
playing in all twenty games.
The prospects for this season are as
good or better than ever before with
six veterans back and a host of new
men from which three may be picked
to fill the remaining positions. Cap
tain Simenton, who will play his old
position at third this year will have
as nucleus around which the 1915
nine will be built Alger Wood, center
fielder and second sacker; Clarence
Goodrich, shortstop; Ralph Peacock,
left fielder; Merrill Hyde, right fielder;
Ed Johnson, pitcher and Steve Nisbit,
utility outfielder. Other veterans who
will return to the game this spring
are Edward Bahlke, catcher, and
Alonzo Beshgetoor, outielder. The
positions which have been vacated by
graduation are catcher, first and Sec
ond bases.
There is fine crop of candidates
who are bidding for jobs on the team.
Carpenter, Steggall and Chapel are
the leading candidates for the first
base position; Simpson, Dancer and
Wight at second while Steggall,
Bahlke, Fitch and Hyde are leading
catching prospects. 1t looks as
though Alma would have the strong
est pitching staff the college has ever
had with Ed Johnson of Yale, of last
years team, and Charley Depew, of
Caro-, Gordon French, of Coleman,
former Hub league pitcher, Paul Cash,
of Alma High fame and Lynn Clark.
Manager Anderson has announced
the following schedule with dates
which are not absolutely assured by
contract left open to be filled i'm later
when the signed contracts arrive:
Alma College Baseball Schedule 1915.
April 10th-Mt. Pleasant Indians at
Alma.
April 17th-Mt Pleasant Normals
at Alma.
April 23d-Orchard Lake at Or
chard Lake.
April 24th-Open.
April 26th-Open.
April 27th-Open.
April 30th-Hope at Alma.
May 1st-Albion at Alma.
May 7th-Ohio Northern at Alma.
May Sth-Olivet at Alma.
May 14th-Ferris Institute at Big
Rapids.
May 15th-M. A. C. at East Lam
sing.
May 18th-Ithaca at Alma.
May 22d-Hillsdale at Alma.
May 28th-Albion at Albion.
May 29th-Kalamazoo at Kalama
zoo.
May 31st-Ithaca at Ithaca.
June 4-5-Intercollegiate at Albion.
June 9th-Ypsilanti Normals at
Alma.
Twin City Ball Team Falls Through.
Apparently the project to support
a twin city ball team this summer on
the part of st. Louis and Alma has
fallen through because of the signing
up of Paul Bailey, the st. Louis agi-
tator of the scheme, by the Battle
Greek team of the South Michigan
league.
Bailey had proposed that the two
cities of st. Louis and Alma unite or
a proposition to support one baseball
team between them upon the under
standing that the expenses were to be
borne equally and that the team would
alternate its home playing dates be-
tween the two cities. An Alma com
mittee was appointed as previously re-
ported in the Record consisting of
Postmaster Cash, chairman, Goggin.
Mckinney, Slater, Davis, Durham, and
was instructed TO confer with a SINH
lar st. Louis committee but nothing
has as yet been heard from our sister
city on the project outside of the re-
port that the chief promoter had gone
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