UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Baseball Days on McCook
FROSH BASEBALL SQUAD HOLDS FIRST PRACTICE
Thirty-eight Aspirants for Tyro Nine Answered Clark's Call Saturday
NEED MORE PITCHERS
First Year Men Urged to Turn Out and Try Their Batting Eye
The candidates for the 1917 freshman baseball nine held their first practice on Hamilton Field, Saturday afternoon and thirty-eight freshmen reported to Coach Potys Clark for the various positions on the team.
The principal shortage of players for any positions is at pitching and third base. Out of the total number of candidates who have reported only four have come out for the twirling position, and only two for third base. The largest number of candidates to report for any one position was for catcher, for which eight candidates have already come out.
POTSY WANTS MEN
Potty is eager that every freshman in the university who has ever played or wishes to play baseball, should report as soon as possible for the prize. He will be held on Hamilton Field every afternoon from 9 a.m. until five o'clock.
Each candidate is to furnish his own suit, as all of the suits belonging to the athletic management have been checked out to the Varsity squad. Lockers will not be checked out to the freshman candidates until a squad is selected by the coach from the total number of candidates. The selection of the squad will be made in about a week or ten days.
HELD BATTING PRACTICE
HELD BATING FRICTURE
The first part of the practice, Saturday afternoon was used over to the batting and playing of grounders and flies. The preliminary warming was dispensed with, the candidates for the different positions were called in to take their turn at batting the ball. The principal trouble with the batting of the players was that they tried to knock the ball over the fence. "Hit easy" was Potsy's continual advice.
As soon as all of the players had batted around four teams were picked from the candidates, each team played between teams. Both of the games were well
played considering the fact that it was the first time the men on the different sides had met.
The list of candidates who reported for the first practice is: Catcher, Andrew Schoeppel, L. Barter, Guy Daniels, Wendell Wessley, William Brady, G. Baker, John Bunn, and Paul Jones. First base: Hobart Machamer, Oren Zabielski, Michael May, Kay Burtch, and James Coen. Second base: Bert Smith, Dallas Convis, Donald Johnson, Herbert Hallmann, Robert Isenberger, and Eugene Brown. Short stop: V. Wilson, John Wenzel, Wilbur Wooley, and Irving Sage. Third base: Russell Burtt, and Frank Oyster. Pitchers: William Cael, Cecl Custer, Robert Bentley, Miles Milward, Idol, Glen Ayres, V. Speed, Roy Paramore, E. Hook, Ellis Willhemy, Elbert Smith, Royal Remedy, and Howard Blum.
SPORT BEAMS
Loren Weltner, who played back of the hat on the Jayhawker nine in every game of the season last year, was out to see the Varsity practice Saturday afternoon. He is teaching in the Junction City high school this year and just came back Saturday to see several of his old friends. He said the Jayhawker squad looked mighty good to him this year.
Thirty-eight candidates reported for the first freshman baseball practice, which was held on McCook Field Saturday afternoon. A great many prospective freshman candidates did not know of the practice, and a much larger squad is looked for this week, according to Coach Potsy Clark. About sixty-five candidates composed the squad last year.
Every freshman who intends to come out to make the team should report to the coach at Hamilton Field as soon as possible, as an early start makes it easier for the candidate to make a place on the regular team. In college you will call the Varsity nine just as soon as the freshmen get a little practice, and Coach McCarty issues a call for competition.
Two accidents occurred in practice Friday afternoon. Potsy Clark, who was out to liven up the practice, turned suddenly to catch a foul ball and sprained his ankle severely than during his entire athletic career.
The Varsity squad held its regular practices Friday and Saturday afternoons and showed considerable improvement in playing. The principal feature of the practice is the slugging ability of most of the candidates.
His ankle swelled up to about twice its normal size in a few minutes, and Potsy said it was more painful than anything he ever experienced. Frank McFarland, one of the strongest candidates for catcher, had to be removed from the practice when the ball hit squarely on the end of the large finger on his right hand. His finger is swelled up considerably but he will probably be back into the game in a day or so.
Constant Poirier, the little but fast pitcher who made a K on the staff last year, is the first player to knock a home run in the practices this year, although Lindsey and several others have hit for three bases. Poirier made the long hit off Vorhees in the practice game Saturday.
Several weeks ago Columbia sport writers started a movement to drop Washington University from the Missouri Valley conference. Now Washington comes along and tries to take Coach Schultze from the Tiger school. This will be Schultze get away, however, as he is very popular and has turned out consistent winners in the time he has been at Missouri.
Five of the candidates for the Varsity nine this year are left-handed batters and will therefore have a shorter distance to knock the ball over the fence while playing on McCarran. The other side are: Adrian Lindsey, Bruce Baker, Bill Weber, Doe Marquis, and Charles Randall.
Poet Who Defined Spring Never Was a College Man
Dr. Hyde's Class Will Prepare Dr. Ila H. Hyde's class in hygiene and sanitation will take up this week the study of the first aid methods used by the Red Cross. There are sixteen students in the class.
"When the soap is on the staircase And the rugs are on the line—"
Thus the poet defines spring as housecleaning time. He might have added, "When the street car's wrecked because it ran into six moving van," for in a college town spring is moving rather than house cleaning season.
A husky waiter earns a quarter by washing the year's accumulation of dust from the windows; an enterprising landlady sends a few rugs to the cleaner and she works further effort in the direction of cleanliness. It is in summer—that season of unutterable dullness—that Lawrence landlads, bored to distraction by the hollow silence of their houses, get out the vacuum cleaner and revivern the work "just to have something to do."
But the movers have ambition and energy at all seasons. In early spring they are inspired to leave the house with the smoky furnace, the cracked floor and the shiny wailings and grasshling of teeth during the process, they move. University folks who move are often forced to cut class during the agony. Even professors have been known to be able to work for a whole day on this account.
Of course, after they become acquainted with their new abode they find that the beautiful fireplace is a fake as a heating plant, that the window weights are all broken, and that the windows are broken in story of the house. When that is discovered they move again and keep the transfer companies thriving.
Contractors and builders are also lucky men in the first wonderful days of spring, for building is the last resort of the weary mover. When you build you can have things as you want them, or as the architect makes plans for the home. The season here has already started, as appears on Kentucky Street where a chemistry professor is building a new garage for his car.
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A new wireless tower is to be built for the University of Wisconsin radio station next summer. The tower is to be 175 feet in height—Indiana Daily.
Chi Psi and Sigma Chi at the University of Michigan have been quarantined on account of an epidemic of scarlet fever—Ex.
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