Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-18
FINAL Sitting IN COLBY BALL SQUAD
LEAVES Bare Two Teams; MASON AND 7
OTHERS GET AXE; SCRIMMkGE THURSDAY
Especial to Kennebec Journal,


Waterville, April 17-Coach Par
ent handed in an unexpected cut in
the Blue and Gray diamond crew this
morning which still further pruned
down the Colby squad so that there
are just about enough men to make
up two teams with a few substi-
tutes left over. This last cut came
Unexpectedly as after the cut of
Sunday following the practice game
was expected to be the last knife
ing that the Colby squad would re-
eeivs this season.
Three pitchers were dropped from
the squad at this time. The most
promising hurler on the squad and
one whom many said would have
made any college team in the Pine
Tree State was cut when Mason. the
colored candidate from New York,
was dropped. Mason has been going
big in practice the last couple of
weeks and looked like a sure thing
on the mound for the Blue and Gray
this season,
With the likely looking infield and
garden men that Colby has this sea-
son and q weakness in the hurting
STAN. Mason would have filled the
bill In an excellent manner. Mason
was declared ineligible by the faculty
been taking the required number of
courses to insure standing high
enough for athletics. Coach Parent
has determined to cut all of the
deadwood from the squad and leave
only the men who are eligible to
play so that he may not experience
trouble later in the season. The 9TH
er two candidates for the mound po-
sition who were dropped were Colby
and Beatty.
Three other good men were also
dropped from the squad because Of
ineligibility. They are Rood, w.
Pierce and Bagnell. Rood played at
Coburn three years and was consid-
er as well as a steady and hard hit
ter. Bagnell has been out two years
and looked good in the field. W..
Pierce came to Colby from Lynn
English, where he was active in ath-
ietics but registered as a special stu
dent and was for that reason de-
/ clared ineligible. The last man to
suffer the knife from the Colby base
ball mentor was. Pike, senior who
was out for a garden position.
Practice this afternoon was of the
strenuous nature and Coach Parent
sent his men through a five-inning
scrub battle with the first team COM
ing out ON top after a hot rub with
the seconds by a two run lead. The
pitching Is still much discouraging
to the Colby mentor and he is using
what he has almost numerically
to try and work out some real first
class hurlers before the season is
well under way. All of the candi-
dates out this afternoon were given
a hard time on the mound and forced
to use all they had and even then
the hits were many and near to-
gether.
Clever fielding on the part of both
inf1elds held the score down appre-
Gladly as we'll as dumb base running
on the part Of number of players of
both teams. Two possible runs were
killed in the last frame when Mil
let and Dunn were caught off their
bags after the latter had hit sharply
to Crowley, who dropped the ball
and then threw wild over third.
Smart recovered the ball and tagged
out Millett, who was slow in making
third and Dunn was caught between
first and second.
The weather this afternoon was
the variety for which Coach Parent
has been almost praying for during
the last two weeks and the men got
their really first taste of baseball
weather and how 1t feels to work out
in q good hot sun. Tomorrow after
noon Coach Parent will again stage
four or five inning game between
the firsts and seconds as the final
practice before the Maine game. He
is very DESTROYS of whipping all of
hts charges into the best possible
shape before the opening game Of
the schedule and wants to repeat the
feat Of last year when the Blue and
Gray won the exhibition game at
Wateryille.