Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
BASEBALL OUTLOOK sRIGRT
 AMONG EASTERN COLLEGES

with leg scissors and half rslson- BASEBALL OUTLOOK sRIGRT
 AMONG EASTERN COLLEGES Stanford University to Come East and
 Play.
 By SOL METzGBR
 (Coach Washington & Jefferson Foot.
 ball Team)
 Intercollegiate baseball last spring was a tangled affair in so far as re- suits were concerned. Columbia. seemed strongest in the East due to Smith. who later went with the Giants along with Pie Way, of Yale and who bids fair to make good in the best of company In the Middle West mat :. ganswas weak as was Chicago and the honors fell to the smaller Institutions, for the most part. with Illinois strong DoHN South Virginia produced an nell nine In two games and splitting with Princeton and Yale. Its greatest game was against Yale at New Haven toward the close of the season when it pounded out 13 runs
 Yale had i.s troubles in the shape of eligibility. the Quogue incident shat tering the Ellis. but at that two wins over Cornell were no mean trick to tdl H dS s|OTfict1 was SETOng IlFOugOuT the year. The reinstatement of Le- Gore and Rhett into amateur standing will unquestionably help win games this spring though one cannot but help believe there is turmoil underneath the surface at New Haven because of the resignation of Walter F. (Dutch) Garter from the Yale Athletic Commit tee after twenty years of splendid ser vice. Carter, so reports have it, is opposed to the present scheme of ath- letfcs at New Haven. He has served longer in this capacity than any Yale man excepting Walter Camp.
 While Yale has been working to strength it's teams by removing the ban Cornell has been going to the other extreme by barring Clary, Russell and Sutterby, battery men, for the slight est infrn gements of the summer ball rule, the perplexing problem, so we are told. of college sport. And in this con- nection, it is interesting to note that Michigan came near to permitting it. and do many colleges of prominence after canvass of the particular uni versailles with which it has athletic relations.
 Brown, the sponsor for iegaIized summer ball. did not rank as high last spring as in many previous seasons Defeats by Princeton, Dartmouth and Hervard were followed by victories over the latter two end win from Amherst but rain prevented games with Yale and Columbia just when the nine had found itself.
 Syracuse was at top form ast season winning twenty games. eight of which were shut cuts. and losing but three, . most amazing record Unfortunate tv, for statistical purposes. Colurn bfa was not met. Cornell had a proud record but for Yale. Two out of three were taken from Pennsylvania. two straight from Princeton. two ont of from Colgate and the strong Column bia nine. Yale got two victories in as many games from Cornell, much to evervbody's surprise. Thus Cornell Williams turned many surprise mo- table among them being wins over Pennsylvania Vale, Amherst and Dart mouth in rattling good games.
 In the West Illinois won eight of it's twelve Southern trip games and then came through with victories over Wisconsin CD. Northwestern CD, Pur- due, Ohio State and Indiana The Chi field. Ohio State cleaned up in it's own community and won bv over wl,elming scores from Purdue CD, Indiana, Oberlin and Chicago.
 This season the most noteworthy events in the West are the restoration of baseball at Grinnell and the eastern invasion of Stanford. Michigan A. C. will likewise get partly East playing in Western Penn and West Virginia. The outlook for the 1917 season is a particularly bright one While there are apparently no unusual changes in the schedules there is promised an unusually attractive list If games. To some extent the number of ga mes play cut down, due to faculty rtI rictions The result is to make the games played of greater interest because they are necessarily limited to Iong-stand- ing rivalsc.
 Columbia will miss it's last years captain and second baseman Bob Watt, now with Chattanooga, and it's pitcher, George Smith, very much this year. pitcher, alsS gra duated, along twith Benson and Haskins. outfielders An dy Coakley is coaching and the sched- ule is the best ever. opening with the Giants and including Yale at home for the first time in a decade. Miller, the football player. and Buddy Cuilo- ton are counted on as pitchers. Cap tain Lane will catch and the other vet short, Hauk. third and Spottke, out fielder.
 Syracuse, retaining Lew Carr, a graduate as coach. has the following pitcher; Captain Hamilton. first: Nee han. second: Brown, left. and Rafter, center Syracuse has a big gap to fiji if it's team Is to again make no runs to its opponents 36 in twenty three Dr. Sharpe at Cornell has lost by graduation and ineligibiIity C1ary and Austin, catchers; Ludwig and Sutter- by, first base; vSauters, second i; Mel1en, third: Ecl<1ey. short; Valen- tine left; O'Conne11. center; Budd, right, and Russell and Perhis, pitchers Cornell will spring a big surprise if it shows well this season.
 Brown should be in fine form this spring as but four of last years regu- lars are out and the old men trying for the team are Captain Ormsby, cen- ter; Johnson, right and first; Davison, third; Cleveland. catcher; Murray, second; Robertson, left; Feinberg and Mcguire, catchers, and Flanders, Den ison and Richards. pitchers
 Williams. with Ira Thomas coatching I ing, has a neuc1eus containing Cap tain Clark. third: Debevoise and Young, pitchers. and Rowland, short, out for the team. The outlook is par- ticular1y bright because of the many good freshmen trying for positions. West Poirst has lost seven of the 12 veterans who returned with the Navy's %~ t 70 i .