The New York herald., 1922-04-02
SEVEN VETERANS
ON HARVARD NINE
Right Field and Second Base
Only Positions Open-30
Games on Schedule.

Special Dispatch TO THE NEW York HERALD
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. April i.--Harvards
baseball season opens next Saturday
afternoon with Providence College as
the Crimsons guest on Soldiers Field.
The team has schedule OF thirty
and Princeton 90 to three games. Home
and-home contests are also booked with
Brown ard Holy Cross, while 4 pair OF
contests arc arranged for the week of
April 16 with Georgia Tech, when the
customary spring recess trip south is
made. Tie games down South will be
played at Atlanta,
Harvard has the advantage OF start
ing the season with team of veterans.
Only two positions are opeE. right field
and second base At least SEVEN OF the
letter men have been together during
the last two seasons and are acquainted
with one another's style. Coach Jack
Slstttry is starting his third season,
ALSO He has record of developing
two mines that have defeated Yale and
one which downcd Princeton last spring
Capt. Arthur Conlop at shortstop
and Ned I.lncolr at third have played
together for two seasons and work
smoothly. Conlon IL n valuable man.
particularly In tho field. and gives prom
ise OF being leading batter again this
spring. Lincolr handles the hard hit
balls at his position with ease. ard is
also considered "a timely hitter.
George owen. thr hockey captain, is
the regular hrst baseman, having earned
his letter there last season. The big
boy plays haseball with the same natu-
RAJ ah'lity that nc shows on the ice and
gridiron. George seems set for HE 81
major H" and Harvard hopes he con-
tinues his winning streak over Yale.
having had clean slate In twelve tn
counters against New Have, teams.
The two chief contend ers for second
base are Charlie Buell., captain-elect or
the football eleven, and Percy Jenkins,
who led last years freshman nine. Buell.
made his letter as an alternate outfiel1er
last June. but decided 10 try for the in
field this year. Jenkins came TO Har-
ward with d great reputation. but has
really done little toward keeping IL up
since then. The remaining inficld can
didatss include Tom Carnegie, Charlie
Mason and Warper Banes. Norris and
Bancroft are aiming to act as Owens's
understudy.
Leonard Hailock and covirgton Janin
are outnelders with two years expert
once already. and the latter has proven
the star or the Yale series each time
Janin ia OF the slugging type and makes
his blows count. Duncan Thayer. Joe
Clark. Alan Rogers and Lou Gordon are
the other outfelders whom Slattery Is
watching carefully. The schedule fol-
lows:
April s. Providence College; April TO-
Northeastern College: April IL. aiiddehury. !.
April 10. Boston University: April 10. Georgia
T, ch; April 20 q orgiP T oh
Atlantal April -, Colby !, April 20. Maine
Catholic University. May s, Bates: May TO-
Holy crose; May 10, Amherst; May l5
Springfield College. May H. Cornell: May
90 Princeton: May 20. Colgate: May "a,
Williams May %. Princeton al Princeton;
May 80. Brown at Providence. June l. Brown
June 3. Pennsylvania; June q. Princeton at
Boeton Gin care OF tie) or Rhode Island
state or no third Princeton esme) June 10.
Holy Cross az Worcester; june Is, Dart
mouth; June II. Tufts Mt Msdford: June ~.
Yale AZ New Haven; June 81. Yale. June "A.
Yale az New York Gin case Of tie).