Newark post., 1922-05-03
ON THE SPORT FIELD
SPORTITORIAL

When a person loses interest in any,
thing in life that something is not
going to be successfully accomplished.
When baseball club loses interest
IN itself that ball club is not going to
be success.
Ihls is not myth, it has been prov
en- from time eternal and was proven
on Frazer Field last Thursday when
Delaware dropped game to Carnegie
Tech by score of 6 to /.
1t was not really the Delaware
nine that took the beating, it was
simply a shadow of the team that
wears the Blue and Gold.
The local ball club is good enough
to beat the nine from the "Smoky
City" any time, if it plays with the
interest that is should but that in
terest was lost last Thursday and the
result was that the Blue and Gold
trailed in the dirt when it should have
been on top.
Mcdonald, Wilson, Yap and Nc
Cormick compose an infeld that with
the interest working, is better than
any inner works that Delaware has
had in long time but when it plays
like it did in the Tech game the less
said the better listening.
In Yap, Delaware has one of the
sweetest infelders that ever drew on
a baseball mitt and he not only can
play good game, but his experience
has been of such a nature that he
can steady some of the younger fell
lows on the nine. But the interest
seemed missing last week and the
result was that "fly shagger" would
have probably played just as good a
game. But to Yap must go the credit
of pulling Delaware out Of some tight
places in some of its games this sea-
son.
When a player boots grounder and
the runner reaches the bag and he
then carelessly tosses the ball over the
field, the old interest is not there.
Sketts Wilson was guilty of this in
the Tech game. Skeets knows bet
ter, but the old interest did not seem
to be there. Why?
Mccormick, the freshman, on short
throws in manner that reminds
one of old Honus Wagner, and he was
a pegger without a rival. Mccormick
is also there when it comes to field
ing a ground ball but he blew an easy
one on Wednesday when it meant q
run. 1t may be that it was not loss
of interest with this lad but the fact
that his fellow-players seemed to have
lost that interest might be the point
on which to hang the responsibility
This lad is young and needs help from
those on both sides of him who have
had experience.
Mcdonald played bang-up game
at first and saved errors for several
of the players by the manner in which
he scooped the ball. But Mcdonald
did show signs of losing that old in
terest in some Of the former games
and as a result warmed the bench
for a couple of games. This may be
good remedy. 1t looked like it last
Wednesday.
There were five errors chalked uE
against the team in the Tech game
but from where we sat it looked as
though an official scorer in some
leagues would have chalked few
more strokes over in the last column
of his box score and not lost any
prestige.
Dory Collins was on the mound fol
Delaware and he pitched good enough
ball to win most ball games but il
takes a ball team of scrappers to wiz
in these times and not just pitcher
If errors of omission were scored as
we'll as those of admission Collins
game would look much better II
print.
There is something wrong with thai
old interest up at the University, bu
we are not Conan Doyle, who car
communicate with the spirit Of inter
. est if it is dead, but something need!
fixing and when it is fixed Delawar'
should go through her schedule will
head up and flying colors.
The writer of this column is no
the one who goes around with th'
hammer hanging out ready to use TO-
knock at every instance. But he il
one who likes to boast and let tn
old ball club at the U. of D. get start
, ed and see how this column turn