Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-14
N 'N|CHOL STARS IN
PENN-MACK SERIES
Danny Proves First Baseman
of Great Worth to Coach
Roy Thomas
FINAL. B BATTLE TODAY
BY EDWIN J. POLLOCK

DANNY McNICHOL, who came near
- being a bench warmer on the Penn
baseball squad. rapidly is moving to
leadership among the Red and Blue ball
tossers in both fielding and batting.
When the Quaker candidates first re.
ported for practice, Daniel announced
that he was after the second base post.
He played that position with the fresh
man nine last season. and believed him
self more fitted for play around the
middle station than in any other terri
tory. His only rival was Paddy Bohan.
Bohan is the only ut-and- out vet
eran on the Penn team, and Thomas's
choice naturally went to the man whose
ability under fire he knew from expert
epce. Danny. however, was showing up
well in the daily drills and he was good
enough to make the team. The only
trouble was there was no post open.
Switched to First
Carmack was playing fairly, good bal!
at first, but in batting Danny was out
hitting him. Finally Coach Thomas
went to McNichol and told him he was
going TO make first baseman out of
him. Danny would rather have rc.
mained at second but he ddn't register
any kick.
McNichol has batted against big
league pitching seven times at Shibe
Park, and set una record Of three hits.
one run and walk for batting aver
age of 800. In the two games against
the AIackmen he hit better than any
other man on either club with the exccp
ton of Joe Dugan, who got four safe
ties out of six tries.
Not only has he been star at bat.
but he also has shonc aficld. In the first
game he handled eleven chances without
a slip, and repeated with the same num-
Der in the second without an error. On
Saturday he made two putouts out of
base hits along the foul line, and in ad
dition saved his infield pals from wild
throws by digging 'em out of the
ground. ~
In the first two games, Danny even
outshone George Burns. The latter
didn't connect safely once on Saturday
out of five tries, although he was is
sued one walk, and on Friday he hit
once out of three official attempts for
an average of .143. George had one
error in twenty -one chaVces.
In the three games played by Penn
this season, McNichol has handled
thirty seven opportunities cleanly, and
has batted .545. Against Ursinus he
got three hits out of five trips to the
plate.
Boost for Penn
The Mackmen took the series from the
Quakers, the first, game by OIL. and
the second by so! but the defeats haye
been credits to the students instead
of deficiencies. Every member of the
AS aggregation was impressed with the
, snappiness exhibited by the collegians
and the pitching of Scheffy, Mitchell and
Titzel was the talk of the dressing
room after the game Saturday.
The final game of the series will be
played this afternoon and it is likely
Z that two more of Mack's soldier ath-
letes will be seen in action. Ray Bates
and Frank Murphy, both of whom have
been i'll France, are expected to re-
port.
Bates made big slash with his
hitting two years ago with the AS,
and if he regains his slugging form.
Fred Thomas will have TO hop to hold
down his third base job.
The Mackmen will play one more ex-
hibition after today's game before they
enter into the five game series with the
Phils for the city championship. To-
morrow the AS will oppose Rochester.
The first contest of the series with Jack
Coombs' club will be staged at the
Phils's park.