The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-30
|COBB'S TWO BASE HIT I'M
eleventh DECIDES GAME
WESLEYAN NINE PLAYS
MARSHALL THIS WEEK
These Games viii Decide Wes-
leyan's Chances for Winning
State Championship.

BUCKHANNoN, April 29.-The
granting Of another trip to the Wes-
leyan baseball team by the faculty
was an unexpected happening of this
week. The big southern trip OF ak
teen games was originally Intended
to take up the entire time allowed
away from home as well as tho spring
vacation Of two weeks. Two weeks
vacation was. however. granted to all
Wesleyan students and as result
this big trip was taken and the men,
bers OF the team missed only three
days Of classes. Following this trip
only two games were originally sched-
uled away from home, both Of these
being with West Virginia University,
AS 1t happened both these games fall
on Monday, Wesleyans regular week.
ly holiday and with this in view the
faculty granted another trip to In
clude six games in western Pennsyl-
vania. Ohio and West Virginia. The
schedule for this trip is as follows:
May 18th. clarksburg at Clarks-
burg:
May 18th. st. vincents College at
Beatty, Pa.
May 18th, Kiski at Salisbury, Pa.
May 18th. Grove City College at
Grove City, Pa.
May 18th. Bethany College at
Bethany.
Mty 18th. Marietta College at Mari
eta, o.
The scheduling Of the game at
Clarksburg is expected to be big
feature OF the season. Eddie Dem
ham is running Norwood park and
operating the representative Clarks.
burg baseball team as one OF the at.
fractions. As soon as he found that
Wesleyan was to take a short trip he
got into communication with local
management and urged that inasmuch
as this was the first time In three
years that Wesleyan had not been
regularly scheduled to play a base.
ball game In Clarksburg, and since
the only game played on neutral
grounds this year was at Fairmont
with West Virginia that Wesleyan
should come to Clarksburg. This
looked reasonable and the game was
finally arranged. Negotiations had
been In progress between the man
agement at Wesleyan and the indie
pendent team at Fairmont previous
to closing with Clarksburg. The
game with Bethany will be an i'm
portant one as this Is the only con-
test between these teams during the
season., -
1t was also decided today that the
reserve baseball team would 70 to
Chenille on Tuesday and wednes.
day Of next week to meet the normal
school team at that place. Wes-
1eyan's reserve team this year ia
exceptionally strong as three or four
regulars from the 1915 W rsity have
been crowded back onto this team by
the new talent and they will give the
Chenille team stlff argument.
The thing, however, that is agitat-
Ing most Wesleyan supporters at
this time is the Marshall series which
is impending. Impending" Is good
word In this case because the Mar
shall games mean everything to Wes-
leyan's chances for clear title to the
state championship. II Is true that
Wesleyan might lose to Marshall and
still come in for consideration when
state honors are handed out by beat
ing Friday and Saturday. Following the
gtnia beating Marshall, but the
chances against this are not SO good
as the chances for Wesleyan winning
two straight battles here on the COM
ing Friday and Sturdy. Eollowig the
Marietta series which ended to-day
Wesleyan will begin to prepare for
the games with the Big Green" and
1t goes without saying that no stones
will be left unturned 80 that every reg
ular and substitute will be in the best
of shape to. deliver the best that he
has.