New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

Fordhann Seeks
College Title
On Diamond
Schedule Being Arranged
Will Include Strongest of
Opponents; Seven Vets

Great preparations are now being
made at Fordham University for the
coming baseball season. Evidently the
Bronx collegians intend to make a
strong bid for the championship or the
East, which they came within an ace
of winning last year. Baseball experts
rated them second to Holy Cross and
the Maroon nine was the only team to
register victory over the Worcester
aggregation.
Aloysius T. Arthur, the Fordham
manager. is busy preparing his sched-
will be the most imposing list of
games ever arranged at the Bronx in
ff''"A'on and will include most of the
leading teams Of the East.
At Least Thirty Games.
Contests have already been booked
with Harvard Princeton, Pennsylvania.
Holy Gross, Army, West Virginia, Co
lumbis and Dartmouth, in addition to
score of other teams. The complete
schedule, which will be ready for pub
lication within the next fortnight, will
consist of at least thirty games, more
4N"" half of which will be played at
Fordham Field.
The Maroon nine will probably open
team, whose star pitcher, Fitzpatrick,
registered two victories over the New
Workers last year. The game will be
staged at Fordham Field on April l..
The contests with Pennsylvania, Har-
ward and Lehigh will mean a renewal of
athletic relations with these institu-
tons after the lapse of almost a dec
ade. Colgate. Dartm outh, West Vir-
ginia and Tufts will appear on the
schedule for the first time in several
years. The University of Pittsburgh
nine will visit Fordham Field on May
20.
One of the features of the schedule
is the contest with the Giants, which
will be staged at the Polo Grounds on
April 10, two days before the opening
of the league season. Arrangements
are now being made to hold celebra-
tion in honor Of Frank Frisch, the star
shortstop Of the Fordham nine last
year, who will probably appear in the
lineup against his former teammates.
Southern Trip at Easter
Plans are now practically completed
for the annual Southern trip, which
will be made during the Easter vaca
tion. The Maroon nine will meet Vii
at Baltimore and Catholic University
at Washington. A gama is also pend
ing with the Baltimore Orioles,
champions of the international League
whom ForAham defeated at Baltimore
last spring by the score of 9 to T.
Home-and home series have been
scheduled with Columbia, Holy Cross,
Boston College, Johns Hopkins, Cath
olic University and villanova. Efforts
are being made to arrange games with
the teams from the University of Ore
gon and the University of California
both of which will make an Eastern
trip in the spring.
Great disappointment has been ex-
pressed at Fordham over the absence
Of Yale from the list of games. Ford
ham and Yale engaged in two extra
inning contests last year, each team
being victorious in one. The New
Haven authorities have notified the
Fordham management that they will
be unable to give the Maroon aggre-
cation a place on their schedule this
season.
Prospects for strong nine at the
BRONX university are brighter than in
many years in spite If ,he 'oss Of
Of the team, during the last campaign.
Seven Of the regulars have returned
to college this year, and, in addition
several former stars from Fordham
Prep and other high schools will be
candidates for the team.
Among the veterans are Lefevrc,
third baseman and captain of the 1920
team; Mclaughlin, first baseman;
Keough, left fielder; Buckley, center
fielder; and Donovan, catcher. The
pitching staff should be particularly
strong, as the veterans. Finn, Mac
Namara, and Holloran, will probably be
IN shape to take their regular turns in
the box from the start of the season,
Arthur Devlin, whose efnrts as coach
, during the first year at .Tordham we're
crowned with notable success, has re-
Gently affixed his signature to a con-
tract to direct Fordham's baseball
destinies for another year. He an
nounced last night that he will issue
the first call for candidates on Febru-
ary 18th.