New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Princeton Has
HighHopes for
Season of 1917
Baseball and Track Men
Show Promise of Big
Year for the Tigers

No matter how many men graduate
and no matter how few candidates
there are for the team, Princeton al
WAYS counts on Coach Bill Clark TO
produce a good baseball team-and he
usually comes up to expectations. SIX
of last years ball team have grad
uated. and the number of experienced
men on hand is wofully small; ouI
Princeton expects to have a good team
il a pitcher can be discovered or de-
veloped between now and warm
Virgil Links loss will be most
keenly felt by the team. 10 MI ms
place there are Chaplin, thompson
Savage and Parmelee. Chaplin was OUT
of the game all last year and lhomp-
son is suffering with a bad arm oaN-
age and Parmelee are both from the
freshman team, and neither OF the"i
has shown much form.
IL may be necessary TO manufacture
a pitcher. Clark has had Dave I'D
bott. the sensational halfback of the
football team, working in the cage Tor
the last month. Tibbott has strong
arm. a cool head and q smooth de-
livery, but he has had no experience
briggs, captain of the team this
spring. will be shifted from shortstop
"a catcher. He was put in at snort
stop last year because there was no
one else to take the place, but he IS
more at home behind the bat. AS SUD,
stitute catcher there are Purves ana
Gordon.
Scully. at first base, is the only one
of the 1916 infield combination Who
will be on hand this year. lie Is al
most sure to hold down his old berth,
but there are several men who inteno
TO make him fight for his Joo.
Maxwell. second baseman on tne
freshman team. and Wiegand. who was
once on a Cornell freshman team, arc
the Ikeliest candidates for the key
stone sack. Bauhahn. captain and
heaviest hitter on the freshman team
stands the best chance for shortstop.
Babe and Howett, from the freshman
teams of last year, are both good men
who are trying for the third base posi-
tion.
In the outfeld. Lee is the only reg
Mar from the 1916 nine. Lee was lead
of man all last year, and he Will un-
doubtedly be one of the Outfeld this
The other two positions will be d.
v,ided between Heating, Rankin, liam
mond. Cory a,d Solder. All these we're
out for the team last year, except
Seidler, who was freshman and there
fore ineligible.
Good Track Outlook
Princeton will probably have much
better track team this year than she
had last year. Il may even be as good
as the 1915 team, which did better IN
the intercollegiate than any Princeton
team has done since 1878.
Two wears ago the Orange and
Black finished fifth in the big event
of the season, with a few individual
stars making all the points. This
wear there will not be so many stars,
but there will be better balanced
squad than Princeton has had IN some
time.
lost BY graduation, but the men from
last years freshman team should
make up for their loss. The 1919
team was the best freshman track
team that ever came to Princeton.
In every event except the high jump
and the pole vault there are athletes
of very fair ability, and they should
perform we'll when the ground soft
ems and the cinder track gets firm and
hard
Moore Should Star
CAPTAIN Moore. in the spirits, should
again be the best man in Eastern col
lege circles. He won the 22O last year
and took second TO Smith, Of Michigan,
in the l00-yaTd dash.
Running with him this spring Will
be Jelke and Barrett, Of last years
team. and Read, from the freshmen.
Read looks all legs, but he managed to
DO the hundred in 0:1O 10 and the go
in O222-5 last spring against the
PENNSYLVANIA freshmen, winning both
events.
Van Wyck, Fraser and Terrell, all
from the freshman team, are good
men.
The whole squad is now working on
the winter board track and they are
all doing the quarter-mile, so 1t IS
hard 70 tell who will turn out to be
the best ~ that distance.
In the half-mile the best bet at the
present time is freshman, Marty
Charles. lie was a consistent point
winner last spring coming out in front
In each OF his starts. His best time
was something over two minutes, but
he has room for Improvement under
good coaching. Van Meter, Long and
Durell are also cand dates for the dis