The New York herald., 1921-08-07

For the purpose Of compiling indi-
yidual averages and selecting repre-
sentative all-American college baseball
team, a grouping has been made here
% nine prominent baseball colleges of
the East-Yale, Harvard, Princeton,
Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Bart
mouth, Brown and Holy Cross.
There is another group of natural
rivals further west in the Allegheny
or Tri-State section. where Penn State.
Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Washing
ton and jefferson and Carnegie Teen
dominate college diamonds. The Middle
West. with it's Intercollegiate Confer
ence, furnishes a definite organiza-
ton from which to compile records.
All three of these districts were con-
sidered in the selection of the all
America team.
IN the absence of a definite BODY
among Eastern colleges, any grouping
suoh as this, has to be more or less
arbitrary. but the nine institutions Sc
lected represent most of the best IN
college baseball in this section as u
was played in 1921. Syracuse, Ford-
ham and Tufts were not up to their
usual high diamond standard, and Syr-
acuse, in particular. played SO rev
games with the colleges of this group
that figures for the Orange players
would have little meaning. George
town and Boston College, usually high
in college baseball, did not measure up
10 their usual marks. but Georgetown
did earn a high rank among colleges
o, the South Atlantic section.
The batting, pitching and fielding ngures'
n distinct innovation In college oaseDai'
renresent the work of the men In the
games Yale, Harvard. Princeton fehii-
svlvania. Columbia. Cornell. Dartmouth
Brown and Holy Cross played among
ZACH other. From these individual aver
a.es and those of the Western Conference
and the Allegheny colleges the aii-Anier-
,ca nine was selected. The man with
the highest combined batting and heidins
dcure in each respective position earheu
that particular place on the team IN
tho case OF the pitcher, his percentage
of games won also was taken INTO c0h-
sideration.
Tunney Leading Pitcher.
James Tunney. the brilliant hois
Cross freshman, easily earned the pltcn-
ing berth He pitched all ot noiy
Cross's big games but one, ana nuu
only single defeat cnarseo y ,.i,
III scored double victories over potn
vale and Harvard and won single games
from Princeton and Columbia Yale ad-
,,,inistered his one defeat. In addition
~ his brilliant pitching Tunney oattea
for an average OF 1893 in his seven uis
Games. and handled thirty-two tielalns
chances without an error. Tueney is
a right handler
Melvin p. Merritt OF Dartmouth mas
the best total for the catchers perth'
IIta fielding record of .93l Is not hlgn'
LIZ nis batting mark IL far enough
head OF that OF any other catcher 70
Eve him the position by comfortable
,,argin James w. Peters, captain OF
,he Vale team, had perfect fleloing
racord IN his big games. but batted Only
o25 Jerry Murphy OF Harvard neided
.g7I but batted only .zol-
AZ first base Jerry o'Connor OF Holy
Cross. who led the list OF hhstern eoI.
,ege batters with mark OF .4o2. lost out
u Harry McCurdy OF Illinois. because
~ a moor fielding average of 9S9. NC
c,rdv HI, .43S and fielded 9S5 FOR total
n,red rr~u.re os Holy Cross. ranking
second only TO OConnor in the nattins
LIST with a mark of .44s, galheu easy
supremacy at second base. IT'S % %coIil-
hincd average is 1892. Bobby Emmons,
.ha Harvard captain, and Thorne Muir
phv Of Yale fielded we'll at second base,
mt did not even approach Maguire III
batting. walter G. Mearlde OF renn
state was among the seasons pest Sou
ond basemen. ,,
Bor a running mato In the middhs Soc
zion OF tho diamond Mcguire draws
Malcolm p Aldrich, captain elect OF lhe
Yale team, who compiled the remarka-
Bile batting average of 400 In sixteen big
games. His fielding figuro is .o2i-not
high. but good enough, in view or MS
batting, to earn him the shortstop berth.
Olaf @. Oden OF Brown and L. H. May
nard Of Dartmouth were strong con-
tenders for the position.
Sullivan mt Third Base.
In spite OF a fielding mark of .s05,
George II. Sullivan, Pennsylvania
sophornore, gets the third base post be-
cause of having batted .844--not remarl-
s,ble In this season OF smuggling. but bot
tsr than any other third baseman was
able to offer. Francis Santoro, the Holy
Cross captain; Earl Bruce OF Dart
mouth and william @. Killinpar of Penn
state ranked only little behind sulli-
van.
IN left field John Freeman. the Co
fumbia freshman. takes first place with
batting average Of .444 and a perfect
fielding mark. It was n close rub be-
tvisen Freeman ard Paul Crane OF Yale
Crane also feded perfectly in his big
games, but fell below Freeman in bat-
ting by fifty-nine points. Cranes 1856
was made In twelve games, while Free
man got his ~ In seven. Freeman de-
serves the position, though. for he
played fn every big game in which his