The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-21
26 BASEBALL GAMES
ON COLUMBIA'S LIST
POst-ScasOn Series Is New Tcs.
turc Of Blue and White
Schedule.

The most comprehensive baseball
schedule drawn up for a Columbia nine
since 1905 was announced yesterday nv
Graduate Manager Harry A.. Fjshs,
after receiving the Endorsement Of m.
committee on athletics. Tweutus,
games will be played. Pcnnsyl,,n,
Cornell. Dartmouth. Union. Mauh,t,,,
Wesleyan and Fordham are s,heduj.d
for two James each. \ post. season 90.
ries. starting with Brown at Providence
on June 10. after college has closed ana
ending with Cornell at Ithaca on IL.
commencement day, Jun q. is a nev
feature.
The baseball management wanted
still bigger schedule, hut the f,,u,,y
frowned on the idea Of playing mos
thar two games a week during Anrl and
May. The number OF home games viii
be sixteen, as compared with u.netes1
last year. Every big college hu, Prince.
ton and Yale, however, will be s,eu a,
Morningside Heights. Columbia. a,
usual. will meet Yale at New Haven
Princeton Is still of the schedule. IN,
reasons not announced.
Trinity Is among those scheduled las,
season which Columbia will no, ma,
this spring. The rupture las, fan WIN
the Hartford college owe: George Brick.
ley. which eliminated In the cincells.
ton of the football game by Columbia
when the Trinity authorities rcflssd
TO withdraw him. seems to have mani.
tested itself in the absence Of Tr nIty
from the baseball schedule. Others who
will not be played this year are HOLY
Cross, st. Johns College and the Chi.
nese University nine of Honolulu.
Columbia will open the season WITH
Manhattan, at South Field. on March
30. The first out OF town game is with
Yale. at New Haven. on April -. Then
Colgate and Harvard come 70 south
Field. The final game Of the regular sea.
son will be the annual fray with Penn
sylvania on commencement day, June :
Prospects for a good season are brlrh,
-Four pitchers above the average, three
catchers and a wealth Of outfcld mate.
rial make the job of Coach Coakley
who has been reappointed. seem les
difficult than usual The hardest posts
to fll will be shortstop and third base
Eddie Shea. who was drafted from the
pitching star to play third base last sea.
son. didn't I'LL well. Mernstein. formerly
Of Dartmouth. while a good hitter ari
fielder, has a weak throwing arm H.
is the only man of promise for the
shor field.
Mernstein and lack Laird. the former
Princeton star. are graduate students
but will be eligible for the varsity. ha,-
ing been students at Columbia hsfora
the new rule barring students holding
degrees from other universities from
competing or Columbia teams went into
effect. The schedule:
March 20. Manhattan at South PisiA
April I. Rutgers at south Field. Z. An
herst at South Field: s. City college a
South Field. s, Manhattan at South Field
II. Dartmouth at South Field: rs, ya,e
New Haven. is. Colgate at South Field. ..
Harvard at South Field -. Union a. Sou'h
Field: 20. Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.
90. Fordham at Fordham.
leyan at South Field: 10. Stevens az eou:h
Field; 10. Fordham at South Field -
Dartmouth at South Field: 90. ~. 2. Q A.
South Field; 50, Lafayette at South Fec
June 7 Commencement Day.. Penny.
vania at South Field; 10, Brown at p-oy,.
dence; ~. Union at Schenectady: rs. q p
]. at Troy: is. VILLA ms at VILLA m-nvr.
~. Wesleyan at Middletown: 81, Cornell a.,
Ithaca.