Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
WOOD AND COAKLEY
AT YALE, COLUMBIA
Their Teams Rated Leagues
Best-TWo Others Under
Former Pros.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

"A yEW YORK, April 19-It is
nj interesting to note that the
Y two leading teams in the
Eastern intercollegiate
Base Ball League at this early
stage of the season are combina-
lions coached by former big
leaguers.
Yale is under the instruction of
,Joe Wood and Columbia of Andy
'Coakley.
&. Whether because Of superior skill In
sieveloping players or because material
sWas better at the outset-or both-crit-
Neal observers who have seen league
fteams In action think that the Ellis and
1.-The Lions are the class of the organiza-
tion.
Base ball form, as all know, is vari-
able. however. and it will be interesting
40 observe the development, if any, Of
Aival outfits.
,HNE phase of the league which may
~ offer significant results. when the
organization has endured sufh-
tlCiently long to produce records war
granting study, relates to coaching, At
81 present four members are echoed by
Smen who received their schooling in the
Ama jor leagues and three have coaches
4whose experience Of the game is limited
40 college base ball
il Wood coaches Yale, Coakley Is at Co.
r.siumbia, jeff Tesreau at Dartmouth and
FIRED Mitchell at Harvard. Princeton,
pennsylvania and Cornell teams are in
Icharge of graduates who were simon
pures in their playing years.
AS records now stand, Dartmouth
foached by pro- won the league race
IN 1880; Penn, coached by an amateur,
won in 1881; and Yale, with a profess
fional teacher, came through last year.
No one can say definitely that Yale
hnd Dartmouth were successful because
of superior teaching there is always the
argument that material may have been
better than that of rival teams, espe-
kcially in the pitching box, where
6trength means so much to a college
Combination.
But as the league continues into the
years and We find that the consistent
title winners are those coached by big
,1eagues, it may well be that something
of value will be proved in this connec-
ton.
MEANWHILE it might be noted that
W the most successful college base
ball coach Of all time was a man
who never played in organized base ball.
sHe is George Huff-for many years
director of athletics at the University
tof Illinois-who played the game at this
university as an undergraduate and then
transferred to Dartmouth, where he was
captain of the 1894 nine at Hanover.
E In Huff's "a years Of coaching at
,Urbana his teams won IL champion
fships and tied for another, a record
sthat no college base ball system any
where has ever approached
Those whose memories go back will
recall the visit of Huff and his Him
:, ball tossers to the East in 1902, when
1.-THE Midlanders blasted Princeton, Yale
fWest Point and Pennsylvania off the
+triiamond and were about to return
AWest in triumph when Harvard nosed
sxhem out in a farewell game
: So successful was Huff that he was
engaged at various times to scout for
major league clubs, the Boston Red Sox
fand Chicago Cubs among them. Fin
sally he was engaged as manager of the
Red Sox, from which thankless job he
lasked to be relieved in 1920, returning
to Illinois, where he has been ever
since.