Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-26
TALKING BASEBALL
ON COLLEGE CAMPUS
Basketball Season Ends Friday,
and Coach Shipley Will Soon
Call Diamond Squad.
Special Correspondence of Every Evening

| Special Correspondence OF rF'ry hSSf'HA
Newark, Feb. 26.--This being the last
week for basketball, talk Of the coming
| baseball season can already be heard
| daily on Delaware College campus. The
game with Swarthmore here Friday night
will end the basketball season. Coach
| Shirley will allow only about week to
intervene before he calls baseball candi-
| dates out for the first practice on Frazer
| Field. which will be March 10, il weather
permits. The schedule will be announced
| in few days.
| Delaware made great record on the
| diamond last year, defeating some OF the
| best teams in college ranks, including
| University of Pennsylvania. As only two
| of last wears varsity are not IN college, the
prospects are bright for another strong
| club. phil Marvel outhelder who got
| his name in old Delaware hall oil tame
last year by driving out home run on
| Franklin Field against Penn, with TWO
runners on the bases, will captain the
club this year. Phl's friends will pull hard
for him to repeat as Delaware has an
other game scheduled with Penn. :,
Delaware was especially strong IN the
infeld last year, and IL is from there that
the two players arc lost. They are Don
Horsey and pierson. who graduated,last
June. Don" Horsey. who played snort
last wear, put up great article oi naii, IN
fact the best during his four years W
Delaware; while Plerson was tower oi
strength TO the team by his clever work NJ
third TO take the place of these two men,
Coach chinloy has quite an array OF ma
terial 10 select from. Some Of II IS way
above tho average II is yet 20 be demon
strated however. that two men can nc
found as valuable TO the team as Horsey
and Pierson. :,
Although nj the start of last scnson VI
was The general opinion that Shiplev was
lamentahlv weak in the box, the pitchers
came through with the victories. JOG
Rotbroclx the New Castle southpaw, did
tho hulk of the box work end was success
fnl with IL Joe" will he out there again
this season with his side wheel delivery
and should hc much better pitcher tie
has taken on considerable weight since
Last yeer md the additional experience
ebouid improve his work His principal
,vaelnass last wear was his wildness, and 4
Coach Shirley can correct that iaait
s'Joe" will no doubt chalk up some more
victories for Delaware
Work. the right handler who pltched
some of the games in 1919, - not ~ col
lepe Clutch CARL, however, who helped
r,,t some in the box, will be out aGalh hha
great things are expected oil Cath. IL WI
be remembered that II was 1arll VINO "''7
largely responsible for tho victory otel
Penn lie il alqo a southpaw, anu atI
Rotbrock lost his control in the seventh
inning Of the Penn game and wakeu loui
,,,o,, !, s,,ccession CARL replaced him In
,bc hoy Although only freshman, CARL
d,,,,io,- GOD great nerve and struck out
Danny AJcNichol. penn's best hitter with
thn hases loaded NcNichol nearly broke
HE hack irving to connect with Sarl
fioaters. en-
In addition TO Rothrock and CarH,
there will be number Of other ptcning
candidates. including Mcgaw, last year
with Wilmington High, Collins, formerly
with the Caulk team, Milford Deputy,
who plaved on Drexel Institute team, ana
Tuud of Oxford High. :,
Coach Shlplcv will he we'll tortihed
back of the bat. Those who watched the
WORK of GRAY Garter last wear voted hum
ono of II not tho hest, catchers that ipola-
ware ever had. lie will be out, and should
eycn he better than last wear Spaid, an
other Al man back of the bat VIII he
on hand To helm out Carter. Nuttcr. VINO
did most of the catching for the IaGik
team last wear. will also bc n candidate.
''Bess" Carter NJ first and Mc' aalc az
second are expected to get their Old posi-
tions ha ck. but they Will have 70 wofk lot
them. Robinson. who played first for the
Newark High last year viii he out and
there will he a number OF others VINO can
play these two positions. :,
Targart, an Elkton boy, will make all
the candidates for shortstop hustle for
"Don" Uorseys Job Notwithstanding
tho grcat game that. Don PLAYED last
season many fans who have seen both
plavcrs in action, say Taggart Is the best
hall rlayer lie made the shortstop posi-
,ion M Delaware several seasons ago and
then dropped out during the war but re-
turned this wear TO finish his education.
He will also he remembered as member
of the Flkton Tri-County League team
seve raj wears back As fielder Delaware
has had few EQUALS to Taggart and he Is
also good hitter.
Ivory. q new man, is being touted as a
ine third basernan and hard hitter. He
plaved in an amateur league in Camden,
u ] last season If TaggaTt and Ivory
live up TO the reputation given them by
fans who have seen their work, Coach
Shiplcy will not have TO worry much over
the inheld. These two, however. will not
have il all their own way, as there will be
number OF otneI Ahllcau Cahoiuatess
Among them will be Underwood, who
SNlaved on the Parkside team, Wilmington,
lSst wear. and Robbins, formerly of Viii
mington High.
The outfield should be much stronger
than in 1919, as all the varsity and SUBJ
stitute men of last year will be out, and in
addition. ga number of promising new
candidates. Captain Phil Marvel,
Donoho and Madden were the regular out
fielders last year, while Dantz, Bill
Stewart and ''Skeet" Wilson played in
some games. Some of the new candidates
for outfield berths will be, Twoes, who is
sub on the basketball team; Sank" Nc
Caughan, another basketball player;
Repp. who had some experience on teams
in Philadelphia, and Murphy, who played
on the Caulk Milford club.