Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-07
WESTERN TRIP IN
MAKING FOR PENN
Baseball Team Expects to Play
in Midwest After AIumni-Day
Game at Cornell In June
IN DILEMMA OVER FIELD

One OF the most pretentious trips
ever taken by University Of Pennsyl-
vania baseball team is in the making,
according to an unofficial report at the
University.
1t is said that following the game
with Cornell at Ithaca, on the Alumni
Day Of Penn's ancient rivals. the Red
and Blue will leave for n weeks tour
through the Middle West, playing COL
leges which have asked for years that
Penn teams make the trip.
The trip is surety, according to
one Of tho officials at the University
the only hitch holding up the publication
OF the names of the colleges to be played
being the final signing Of the papers.
For many years mil Western mines
have asked that Penn come to their
domains for games, but usually during
the college season.
Now 1t Is understood that several
have agreed to make dates for Carris'
nine after their regular season. The
Penn graduation takes place usually
around the 10Th of June. and 1t is ex-
pectcd that Immediately after that the
team will start it's swing. The players
have signifed their intention of re-
manning at the University until the trip
starts, and also to continue to play
until they return from the West.
Hard Schedule
Thirty three games will be on the
schedule during the coming season, the
most important from the standpoint of
new teams being the Navy, which comes
here on Straw Hat Day. Three games
n week will be played during the month
of April, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. During May the team will
play an average of close to three games,
which means one of the most imposing
schedules ever arranged for a Penn
nine.
What the team will do for it's home
games after the rebuilding Of Franklin
Field gets under way is worrying the
coach and officials Of the sport at the
University.
While nothing definite has been an
nounccd, it is expected that work will
start the Monday following the relays,
which take place the last Friday and
Saturday Of April. The stands will be
torn down and the field covered with
material for the rebuilding. AS a result,
the diamond will not be available.
All the games in May and June will
have to be played on outside diamonds,
finally passed on. The officials have
been looking up different fields in the
city with a view to leasing them for
the games during May and June. Straw
bridge & Clothicr Field. at Sixty third
and Walnut streets. and the T.. II. r.
Y. NJ. G. A. grounds, at Forty fourth
street and Parksi9e avenue, have been
mentioned as possibilities.
Virtually all the so called big games
are played during the month of May
and early in June. Princeton, the Navy.
Cornell and In fact all tho
other teams on the Red and Blue sched-
ule known as old rivals meet Penn
then.
Should the work start as stated above
the intcrcollegiates which are scheduled
for Franklin Field will have to be trans
ferred to Cambridge. In addition all
the home track meets. with Cornell,
Harvard and other colleges expected
will have to be transferred to the out
of-tOwn fields.
The, wrestling team received an in
yesterday to meet the Iowa
State matmen during the season just
starting, according to the manager of
the team. Two years ago the Red and
Blue matmen Travelled to the Western
State and were defeated.
Johnny Lukas, elected captain of the
boxing team last night, severely
spraincd his ankle yesterday while SPAR
ring with one of his teammates. The
injury is recurrence of one received
during the football season and may keep
the Shamokin lad on the sidelines until
after the holidays.
Lukas, who Is the Red and Blue
mittman in the 15S-pound class, is a
junior in the Wharton School. He
played football on The scrubs and var
sity in 1920 and during the past season
was a regular In the backield until in
jured.