Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-30
Bowdoin Starts
Spring Invasion
Southern Colleges

Brunswick. March 2S-The Bow
doin baseball club leaves Brunswick
Friday for the Spring invasion of
the so-called Southern Colleges"
The team will play a series of five
games during the spring vacation.
The team has a work out in the
cage" each afternoon not being able
to get out Of doors yet.
The Southern trip which is fast
approaching consists of five games.
Saturday the White is to meet Ford
ham at New York for the opening
game ofsthe 1928 season. On Mon
day, April md the team faces the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Club after
which a, days rest will be given the
team before the games with Prince
tn Tigers on the 4th and Columbia
on the 5th. From New York the
Bowdoin nine will journey up the
Hudson to display their wares before
the soldiers at West Point on April
9TH. This is the hard opening series
of games which confronts the White
players curing their vacation from
college.
In preparations for this schedule
the men are working hard to give
baseball. The big problem which
faces the team is that OF getting
out of doors. To he surc-they have
had plenty of practice in the cage
this winter, having been out and at
it nearly every day since college
opened for the second semester III
February but what the team needs
is to geteintO the open and get used
to it. The diamond covered with
snow will perhaps lie put into shape
the snow removed and if naturs
will only dry up the Ground-por-
haps the team may get out before
they leave. Already work has been
started to do this.
About twice a week for the last
month Coach "Ben" Houser has been
staging some games indoors. TINS
has given him an idea OF just how
the team Will look and some good
pointers on the men who are out.
Much of the time has been devoted
to batting practice, fielding and sig
nal work. ben" maintains that
hitting club is winning club.
Two big problems
Ben Houscr has had two big prob
lens this season. One is IN the
right field position and the other is
in the battery as to who Will be
taken on the Southern trip as the
fourth man.
Ry far the biggest problem that
Ben has ever faced in baseball, SO
he SAYS is "WhO will be right heldcf
ON the BoWdoin team this season.
For this nosition the contestants are
working hard Kirkpatrick, Junior
who has not had any college eXper-
fence in baseball but 1t will be re-
mcmbered that he was a star on the
famous Portsmouth nine which in
vaded Portland a few years ago to
play Portland High. He is a sure
fielder and fair hitter, and has
made fair bid for the position.
Towne is another who is working
hard Then there is Red" Jones. a
sophomore and who has had some
experience on last years nine. The
other candidate is Fish, a likely de-
pendable for the future. Ben says
that one aday Fish looks the best of
the quartet while the next it is
Smith and Ben" watch them close
~ each day and which one Of them
that makes the trip is surely to he
the best man. 1t has not vet been
announced as yet who Ben will take
for the opening games this week
end.
Four pitchers will be taken on the
trip. Freddy Walker, Larry South
wick, and "Rupe" Johnson. all veter-
ans of last year will be taken. but as
to the fourth, it is a question. Hill
dreth has been showing up extremely
we'll as..has also Stafford. Pike and
Sibley. One of these men will be
taken and as thew are all ahO,1t even.