The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-03
KANSAS STRONG
h. e. Expects Winning Base
ball Team This Season.
The First Game Will Be Played
With Ames Wednesday,.
BY PAUL BRINDEL.

Lawrence. Kan, April 3.-Another
Missouri Valley Conference champion
ship is the way Coach Leon McCarty
sizes up the 1916 baseball season for
his K. U. team that opens the season
Wednesday on McCook field with the
Ames Aggies.
AT no time in recent years have the
Kansas early season prospects looked
so good. A veteran pitching staff.
two men of which arestars of the first
water. a fast infield, and veteran
outfield together with a hitting
strength on paper stronger than last
years smuggling Jayhawker nine are
just a few of the things that dope the
Kansas nine out as the 1915 confer
ence champions.
Good Pitchers.
Perhaps the greatest strength of
this years Kansas team is in the big
hurting staff of five pitchers. Last
year with only Red Craig, an untried
recruit, the pitching situation was al
ways an acute one and only the fact
that Craig developed into a star and
that bad weather prevented the games
he could not pitch, gave McCarty' s
/. proteges a muchly unexpected cham
pionship. This year McCarty not only
has Craig with his undefeated record
in conference games last season. but
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pitched the 1914 K. u. nine to a Valley
championship. Then as second string
pitchers there are Peirier. Fischer.
and Smith, all better than Craig was
at the start of last season.
The X. L. infield although. having
but one veteran, Wood the football
quarter. at short, sizes up far ahead
of that of last season. On first Croft,
the big linesman on the Jayhawker
football team for the past three years,
will make his initial debut in inter-
collegiate baseball. While not the
Croft has the advantage of six feet
three inches in height and two hum
dred pounds weight to put behind his
hitting.
Outfield Strong.
Second base has gone to another re-
cruit, Deaver. Gibbon. the midget
basketball forward, will be on third in
the opening series with Ames, having
landed the position by beating out
King, a "K' man and veteran of last
year.
In the outfield Captain Wandell will
play his old position in center, with
the veteran Chimney in right. Since
will be used in the other field when
not pitching became of his great hit
ting, although McCarty has a pair of
two other choice gardeners in Travis
and w Weltmer.
The Kansas schedule this season in
cludes for the first time the full eigh-
teen games allowed by the Valley con-
ference. Ten will be played at home
and three on the road. Bethany col
lege of Lindsborg, Kan, and Highland
Park. the latter school which will be
played at Des Moines along with the
Ames series at Ames are the two new
corners on the K. U. schedule, which is
as follows:
The Schedule
April 5-6-Ames at Lawrence.
April 13-Bethany college at Law
renee.
April 1S-St. Mary's at Lawrence.
April 24-25-Chinese university of
Hawaii at Lawrence.
May 4-5-Kansas Aggies at Manhat-
tan.
May 6-St. Mary's at st. Marys
May 11-12-Missouri at Columbia.
May 1920-Missouri at Lawrence.
May 25-26-Ames at Ames.
May 27-Highland Park at Des
Moines.
May 31-Open.
June kansas Aggies at Law
renee.