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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN- BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS -SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1913.
COACH HEISMAN RANKS GEORGIA AND ALABAMA EVEN
How Coach Heisman
Classifies Teams
Class A <
Alabama
Georgia
Auburn
Class P •
Clemson
Tech
Mercer
Class C <
Vanderbilt
Sewanee
Mississippi A. & M.
Florida
Class D •
Wofford
L. S. U.
Tennessee
Class £ <
Tulane
Millsaps
.Citadel
By J. W. Heisman.
(Famous Coaoh of the Tech Team.)
T HE) man who would seriously at
tempt the pleasantry of award
ing a baseball championship of
the 6.LA1 for the season of 1913
soon to dose needs be a daring spirit
—a man much brarer than myself.
Wwver within my somewhat
lengthy recollection has the matter
of a proper ranking of the teams at
the season's end been In such a fear
fully messed-up condition as this
year, and no one with any right to
speak with authority of the subject
has, so far as I know, been so fool
hardy as to attempt a definite pro
nouncement on the subject.
As has often been explained before,
there Is no such thing as a real
Championship of the S. L A. A_ and
this holds good eren in football. But
In the latter sport the teams come
much nearer to playing a common
schedule of games, and for other rea
sons as well It Is much more easy
to predicate the strongest team of the
year than can be the case in base-
balL
Some years It has been satisfac
tory to all to award a tentative cham
pionship In baseball to that team
which had not lost a single series
during the season. This plan would
never do In professional baseball, for
It Is not series won and lost that
count here, but the mere number of
Individual games won and lost.
But while the percentage plan of
Individual games won and lost Is
eminently satisfactory In figuring out
a pennant winner In a professional
league It will rarely do In the S. I.
A. A- for the reason that the 22 mem
bers do not play the same number of
games, the same opponents, the same
number at home and abroad, etc.
It comes to this, that unless one
team has made such a stunning and
practically unsmirched record as rea
sonably puts It out of the class
of all the rest of the teams In the
association a just disposition of the
title "Champions’’ Is out of the ques
tion. This really happens with rea
sonable frequency, but It certainly
has not happened this year, and
hence no uncontested assignment of
the title Is likely to be r-ade by any
one. Still, a careful review of the
work of the various teams, and a
painstaking contrasting of that work
should not be without profit.
...
^'CONSIDERING the percentages
they have rolled up from the
particular learns they have encoun
tered, it is clear that the figures for
Georgia and for Alabama loom up the
largest. Prior to the Tech series
with Georgia, the Athenians had suf
fered but two defeats in the S. 1
A. A., and that was the size also of
Alabama's defeats. Georgia’s per
centage was nevertheless a shade
higher than Alabama’s for the reason
that the Red and Black had play d,
and therefore won. more games thin
had the Tuscaloosans.
It was also true that the two de
feats suffered by Alabama were at
the hands of the Georgians them
selves; so that, It appeared, when it
came to direct matching, the Ala
bama team seemed to be a bit in
ferior to the Georgia team. On the
other hand, this was somewhat offs t
by the fact that the two games be
tween the two had been played In
Athens and, further, that nearly all
of Georgia's S. I. A. A. games had
been played on home grounds, while
about seven of Alabama's games hat
been played away from home.
But now that the smoke of the
T'ech-Georgla series has also cleared
away, there does appear considerable
ground for Alabama's insistent* plea
that they have a better claim to first
honors than has Georgia, for now the
records show that Georgia has lost
five S. I. A. A. games, while Alabama
has still lost only two. To go with
this, Georgia has won 13 S. I. A.
A. games, while Alabama has won
11 such. Unfortunately, these did or:
Include for Georgia victories over
Mercer, Sewanee or .Mississippi A.
and M., while Alabama's wins fail :o
include contests with Auburn, Clem-
son or Sewanee. In other words
there is no real basis of comparts in
available.
What seeming advantage on a per
centage basis Alabama enjoys may
disappear when It encounters Van
derbilt on the 26th and 27th; but on
the other hand it must be remem
bered again that Alabama is going to
have the advantage in these games, In
that they will be played on home
grounds.
If we stop to see what effect figur
ing in non-s. I. A. A. games would
sgve on the records of the teams we
ynd that it will not help matters
much for Georgia to have recourse to
this expedient, for tvhile it is true
It won some additional four games
from such teams, it also lost three
games to such teams, Alabama, on
the other hand, has played four non
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. college games and won
them all. (Of course, games with
professionals and prep school teams
are not being considered at all in this
connection.)
I have gone at some length into a
comparison of the work of these
teams, not merely because they seem
to have had. on the whole, the best
records for the season, but also to il
lustrate to the reader what the com
plications are in the way of a sensible
ranking; and not alone for these two
teams, but for others In the associa
tion, for the difficulties for all are
similar in character In all respects.
• • •
pUT white a view of the unclothed
^ percentages of Georgia and Ala
bama seem to ahow them up In the
most favorable light of all the S. I. A.
A, teams, there are not lacking those
who claim places for other teams
alongside these two. Thus some Au-
bumites claimed before the Clemson-
Auburn series that those battles
would settle second place.
If they did, then Clemson is entitled
to second place and either Georgia or
Alabama would have to step down off
the pedestal and let the Tigers Jump
up. But Just to show you how dif
ferently the same things can look to
different people, here is Coach Dob
son, who says that if Tech took the
series from Georgia then the Yellow
Jackets were entitled to the pennant
So where are we at, and where do
we all get off?
As for the. Techltes, they are not
splitting anybody's ears with any
kind of claims in particular. And yet,
in Justice, what deserts they have
should be spread out for public in
spection as well as those of other
teams.
Now, Tech has won nine and lost
seven, all S. I. A. A. games. This will
not net so high a percentage as sev
eral other teams can boast of; but
wait a minute. In the first place, an
even half of these games were played
away from home, and that is much
more along this line Chan any other
of the prominent teams can say.
Again, of the seven defeats en
countered, four were by one run only,
one was by two runs only, and two
were by three runs only. In other
words, no team has run plumb away
from the Yellow Jackets in a single
encounter, as did Georgia from Ala
bama. Also, Tech suffered two of its
one-run defeats directly through the
vile luck of having both its catchers
knocked out, one in each game at Au
burn, by having their right hands se
verely Injured during the course of the
two games. Had these accidents not
happened, or not happened on the
road where their other catchers were
not available, it might have made
all the difference in the world with
their season’s record.
And yet another thing or two: Tech
was the only team in or out of the
association that could take the series
from Clemson, and the only one that
could take a series from Georgia. She
was the only team that could win
more than one from the Georgians on
their own campus; and it was the
only one that fairly decimated Sewa
nee, this season.
Likewise, it is worth pointing out
that Tech’s schedule showed no weak
teams on it like Birmingham College,
Florida, Tennessee, Tulane, S. W. P.
U., Southwestern Texas, Washington
and Lee, etc. No, theirs were all stiff
opponents.
Yet against them all Tech scored
69 runs to opponents’ 45, which is
pretty good.
So when you come to think it all
over, it becomes apparent that Coach
Dobson had some slight ground, to
say the least, for ranking Tech first.
• * *
A UBURN S record is excellent—so
far as it goes. The trouble is it
doesn’t go far enough; for the only
teams it encountered worth talking
much about were Georgia, Mercer,
Tech and Clemson. Now. to two of
these four it lost; so that a good-look
ing percentage built up largely from
fhe other small-fry on their 1313
schedule doesn’t spell much, after all.
No one can deny that the team
looked good; but of the two series it
, won out of the four named above, or.
i was played entirely on home grounds,
the other entirely on neutral grounds,
and even of the two lost one was
plaved entirely on home grounds.
• • •
A ND right here let us analyze Clem-
son s status on the season’s work:
No one can think more highly than do
I of what the South Carolinians ac
complished this spring. Not only did
they win their State pennant with a
clean percentage of 1,000, but they
took the series from Auburn on for
eign grounds, beat North Carolina and
tied Trinity. They also broke even
with Georgia, though this way on
home grounds.
The discounts come in when we note
that neither North Carolina nor Trin
ity had teams of usual caliber this
year, and that none of the South Car
olina teams, outside of Clemson, are
in a baseball class with the usual run
of S. I. A. A. teams. And, of course.
Clemson dropped two straight to
Tech.
But the main difficulty in assigning
any given place to Clemson lies in the
fact that alt told they only played
seven games in the S. I. A. A. Of
these it won three and lost four. Its
outside opponents, being of unknown
caliber, offer as little basis for a criti
cal estimate within the 8. I. A. A. fold
as would a consideration of the prep
and professional games that other S.
I. A. A. teams have played.
And so it goes.
• • •
N OW, if anyone can make head or
tail, fins I? feet out of this
thrice-jumbled situation they have
everybody’s permission to “go to it.”
For me, the Job is strictly “taboo.”
I do not mind saying that in my
opinion, considering records generally,
as well as what 1 saw*’of the actual
play of the various teams, that Ala
bama and Georgia deserve to rank a
shade higher than any other of the
S. L A. A. teams.
One further step—taken with some
hesitation—and I find myself putting
Auburn, Clemson and Tech in Class
B, just below r the other two. Beyond
this the path appears to me to be
blocked up solidly.
* * •
IVYERCER'S chief claim to distinc-
tion lies in the fact that it took
tevo out of three from Tech. But as it
won only six college games, while los
ing eleven—if my records have it right
—it seems plain that the Baptists will
not demand a ranking above the five
already considered.
* * •
V ANDERBILT has thus far won five
and lost eight, all told. There
yet remain on their schedule three
games with Alabama at Tuscaloosa,
but even if they take two out of the
three, which is unlikely, their record
will still keep them in the "second di
vision.”
• *
CO far ns I am familiar with it,
^ Sewanee’s record for the season
is just about on a par with Vander
bilt’s. The latter w*on their series
w'ith Tennessee, while Sewanee lost
to the Volunteers in the one game that
was played. Vanderbilt and Sewanee
are yet to come together, and if the
Commodores win from Sewanee they
will be champions of Tennessee; but
if they lose to the Tigers I suppose
there will he nothing about that
championship either.
* * *
T ENNESSEE has a brand new r team
and not much was to be expected
from it. They appear to have been
very weak, losing to Michigan, Van
derbilt, Georgia and others, with little
to chalk up on th> credit side.
• * •
]\T ISSISSIPPI A. & M. harl a fair
team, but it also ranks below
the A and the B classifications, as I
have styled them. True, they won
two out of three to Vanderbilt, and
took the series from Tulane, but they
lost five straight to Alabama.
* • •
LJ'LORIDA, Birmingham, Tulane and
*■ Louisiana all had teams rather
below par.
• * •
TF you should ask my opinion of the
* the strength of the teams as they
were playing at the very end of the
season it would net take me long to
say that no team was going stronger
than Tech, to say the least. I do not
believe that Georgia was falling off
any in its play; there was no reason
why it should fait off. The men
were all in good condition, still full
of ambition, better backed and key
ed than they had been for any other
preceding game, and I think played
the best ball they were able to play
against Tech.
Yet they went down before the
Technicals In no uncertain manner.
This might have been a “flash in the
pan” for Tech had only one game
been played and won by them from
Georgia, but when two are played in
Athens and two in Atlanta the re
sult ceases to be an accident. This
conviction is strengthened by a recol
lection of what Tech did to Sewanee
in the two games immediately pre
ceding the series with Georgia.
Alabama does not as yet seem to
have hit the chutes, but Tech would
give a good deal to get another chop
at them on home or neutral grounds
and right now.
Clemson kept to Its stride right
to the finish and would make
it warm for any of them.
* * •
T HE best, then, that I can possibly
do is not to attempt an indi
vidual ranking of the teams. Tnst- id
I must fall back on a general classifi
cation, which comes as near as may
be to expressing my opinion of the
strength of the teams as they playe i
the season through—taking into con
sideration whom they played, how
often they played them, where they
played them, how they came out, and
how they looked in actual perform
ance as a mere playing machine.
PENDLETON REMUSES TO
JOIN PROFESSIONAL RANKS
PRINCETON. N. J.. May 24.—"Tal’'
Pendleton, the Princeton football cap
tain and considered one of the best
ball players in the colleges ’to-day,
declared he would not enter the pro
fessional baseball ranks after gradua
tion. Offers had been made to him
by the Washington American League
and Baltimore International League
clubs. Pendleton said he would go
into business after graduating.
Lowry Arnold a True Sportsman
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Could Have Barred R. Steinmehl
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By Tick Tichcnor
I F it hadn't been for Lowry Arnold
the Birmingham Invitation Tour
nament would not have been won
by Rollo Steinmehl.
Of course he beat Lowry in his
very first match but this is not tl*t
point.
On the afternoon before the qual
ifying round Billy Ward, who was a
member of the Tournament Commit
tee, was In doubt about allowing the
Junior members of the Club to enter
the tournament.
“Lowry,” said he,” we have three
or four Junior members who want to
play in this tournament. “They are
boys fourteen, fifteen and sixteen
years old. What do you think about
letting them enter?"
Now if Lowry l^rnold had raised
any objection all Junior members
would have been barred from enter
ing. But being a big broad-gauge
sportsman Lowry replied,. “By all
means,’’ Billie, “let them enter. If
they are not good enough they will
be beaten. If they are good enough
they ought to win.”
So the matter was settled and the
Junior members entered anil Rollo
Steinmehl established a record of
winning the first tournament in which
he ever played.
• • *
H IS victory was the greatest sur
prise, which has ever taken place
in any tournament in the South. It
was a surprise because he was truly
a dark horse. None of the members
of the club knew how well this fif
teen-year-old boy oould play. They
knew him because they had often
seen him playing with his father or
had seen him putting on or playing
shots to the tenth and fifteenth
greens, which are almost in his back
yard but none of them ever played
with him. He had turned in no
scores and so wasn’t even on the hand
icap list. When he turned in a score
of seventy-eight it was thought that
he had outplayed himself in the qual
ifying round. When he played his
first match with Lowry Arnold and
won on the fifteenth green most
everybody was surprised but no one
considered that he had a chance of
winning the tournament. The gen*
eral impression was that he was too
young to stand the strain and would
blow up sooner or later. But those
who entertained this idea didn’t know
the kid. In his second round he was
pitted against Billy Ward, a veteran
of many tournaments and who knows
every break and slope and blade of
grass on the entire course. At the
sixteenth tee Ward was two up with
only three holes to play. Ward had
the match almost as good as won but
Steinmehl couldn’t see it that way and
by winning the eighteenth managed
to square the match on the eighteenth
green. The nineteenth, twentieth,
twenty-first holes were halved but
he won the twenty-second hole and
the match.
• # •
T N his next match the next morning
* with H. C. Wood he had a ding-
dong match all the way round a-
neither was ever mote than one up
at any time. Wood was one up at
the eighteenth but missed his drive
and lost the hole and the match was
all square. Both got away well from
the tee at the nineteenth but neither
quite reached the green. Wood’s
second was about ten feet short of
the cup, while Steinmehl was about
four feet beyond the flag. Wood
putted and barely missed his three
but was dead for a four. Steinmehl
put his ball square into the back of
the cup but it hopped out and the
hole was halved in four. I was stand
ing where I could see his face plain
ly when the putt hopped out and he
didn’t change his expression. He
didn’t make a move or say a word.
The putt was just a little too hard
and he knew it The next hole was
halved. Both drove badly at the
twenty-first but the kid made the
better recovery and got his four and
won the hole.
This was the second time he had
been forced to go extra holes to win
and he had done so without a flicker.
He had proven to all that he knew
his clubs of which he only carried
four—a driver, a mashie. a mid-iron
and a putter—but would the strain
of the gallery, which would follow the
final have its effect on him. Those
who thought that it would didn’t
know him. He didn’t know that
they were there He played better
than ever. At the thirteenth he had
his opponent, J. H. Doughty, four
down with only five holes to play. At
this point Doughty by playing mag
nificent golf succeeded In winning
three of the next four holes and halv
ing the other one and so came to the
eighteenth tee one down with one to
play.
• • •
T HE ninth and eighteenth fair-*
greens are parallel and the green
is a double green—the ninth being to
the right. On his drive Doughty
sliced but his ball just reached the
edge of the ninth green, leaving him
a long run-up shot across the ninth
green to the cup.
Steinmehl sliced badly his ball fi
nally reaching the rough to the right
of the ninth fairgreen. When the
ball was found in the rough it was
about fifty yards from the hole. Just
short of the green and about ten
yards from the flag was a large
mound fully ten feet high, which w*as
in a direct line to the flag and w f hich
had to be carried if the green was
to be reached. In addition to all of
this the ball was lying under a tree
the limbs of which were so low* that
the ball had to be kept low in order
to keep from hitting them and yet
the mound had to be carried and the
ball held on a small green.
Picture yourself in such a position
and figure out the shot.
• * *
I WAS standing at the back of the
* ninth green with George Oliver
and we discussed the shot we would
attempt under the same circum
stances. Mr. Oliver was of the opin
ion that he would take an approach
ing cleek and attempt to run the ball
over the mound and take a long
chance of pulling off the shot and
getting the green. On the other
hand I was of the opinion that It
would be best to play the ball onto
the ninth green and trust to laying
a long approach putt dead and get
ting a half In four. But young
Steinmehl did neither. Using a
mashie, after carefully studying the
shot, he hit the ball awful firmly. It
just grazed the leaves of the tree,
cleared the jnound easily, struck the
green and came to rest about three
feet from the hole. So great was the
amount of cut put upon the ball in
making the shot that it ran less than
three feet after striking the green.
It was a grand shot and one which
Willie Anderson In his day would
have been proud to have pulled off.
It was the best shot, which has
ever been my pleasure to witness.
Girl Magnate Is Now
Forming Ball Club
Miss Ida Schnall Sends Out Call for
Athletically Inclined Girls to
Join Team.
NEW YORK, May 24— Floclc
around, girls, and listen to this.
How often have you envied the
snappy playing of the Giants? How
often have you longed to play ball
yourself, and bewailed the fact that
the girl ball players are about as un
common as a snowy day in July?
Well, here’s a chance for athletically
inclined girls to develop into female
Wagners. Matties and Marquardu.
And don’t forget that “the female of
the species is more deadly,” etc.
Miss Ida Schnall is the boss of the
New York Female Giant*. Back In
1908 she started the team, played ex
hibition games—with male teams—
for charity. Now comes Miss Ida
with a new scheme. She will be a
magnate just like Charley Ebbets and
will spend money. Another nine is to
be formed, and the two teams will
play exhibition games, mostly for
charity's sake; but of course Ida ad
mits that she doesn’t expect to lose
money.
Ida is supposed to be the champion
all-round athlete in these parts Re
cently she did a diving stunt at ,the
Winter Garden, but she decided to get
back into the baseball game again.
She has sent out a call for ten girls
who know something of baseball, and
who are there with the muscle and
nerve. So if you’d shine in this com
pany drop a postal to Ida, and Ida will
tell you when to report for duty at
the Bronx oval, where her cohorts are
getting back Into trim by practicing
on Sundays.
BIG EASTERN MEET JUNE 14.
NEW YORK May 24. -The New
York Athletic Club will hold its nine
tieth athletic meet on Travers Island
on June 14,
GOULON SEES
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Weston, Fox, Callahan, Hurlers.
By Ed W. Smith »
C hicago, ill., May 24.—Matty
McCue, the Racine boy, who is
leaving a trail of cracked Jaws
and blighted records behind him as
he marches steadily upward toward
some sort of a championship, found
one big booster In his home town
the other night when he tipped Jeff
O'Connell over for a totally unneces
sary count in the first round of their
glove contest. Johnny Coulon, ban
tam champion, was at the ringside
for the double purpose of trying to
help his friend O’Connell suppress
the Racine terror and also to get his
first view of the said terror. The
pride of Logan Square had never cast
an eye on the pride of Racine and
was filled with curiosity.
* * •
A VERAGE fight fans pay little at-
tention to the work of a fighter's
seconds, especially If the fighting is
pretty hot, and probably very few in
the big throng at Racine Thursday
night noticed how hard little Johnny
did his very utmost to help the for
mer Briton. Once Johnny held Jeff
up as he w r as knocked down right in
his own corner, probably saving the
already beaten man a nasty tumble
outside of the ring. But it was
an utterly hopeless case. But just
the same, Johnny was w ell satisfied;
that he did his best and that nothing
on earth could have saved Jeff that
night—nothing, at least, short of a
gatling gun trained on the McC^ue
corner.
• * •
A FTER the battle was over and the
fright had loft the O’Connell cor
ner because of Jeff’s disinclination to
come to his senses promptly, the ban
tamweight champion’;* eyes stuck out
excitedly as he walked into the Mc
Cue dressing room and congratulated
the young fighter on his success and
the wonderful showing he made.
“You're a wonder, kid, that’s all 1 can
tell you now.” Coulon told him, “I’m
a fan for you for all time now and
want to see you win because you're
a fighter after my own heart.”
* # *
THE Coulorf enthusiasm hadn’t cool-
*• ed a bit two hours after the bat
tle was over and he had nothing but
the highest praise for McCue. “Why,
they* told me he was a right-hand
puncher and that his wallop was
about all he had,” Johnny told a party
of friends. “A right hand indeed!
That’s the last thing that should be
considered about him. He’s got one
of the best left hand* that I ever
saw and this, to my mind, is what
makes him a really great fighter and
the sure makings of a champion.
• • *
UTHE man with merely a right
* hand Is an easy man to fight
and usually an easy man for a clever
fellow to whip. When the man with
a good right has a great left along
with it look out for him. he is the
ideal ringster and it will take a
champion to down him. I’ve never
seen a young fighter handle himself
in better shape, with better judgment
and with such high skill as Matty
McCue. He doesn’t have to hook it
to daze a man. He sticks his left
out wflth Jarring force and doesm’t
use the right until absolutely sure
that the other fellow is In no condi
tion to cross him or beat him to it.
I'm for McCue. He’s a wonder.”
• * ♦
A ND little Johnny’s opinion is
shared freely by all of those who
saw the artistic lacing he gave the
hapless O’Connell. It was the first j
time the clever Jeff ever had been
clipped out despite the fact that he |
has battled some of the greatest of
the lightweights The little fellow-
felt the sting of defeat sharply, but
was game enough never to attempt
an alibi. “I simply never got started,
that’s all,” was what he said. When
asked if he didn’t think McCue a
great man Jeff said he would have to
think so and laughingly added that
he didn’t see enough of him to form
a good opinion.
• * *
M ANY good judges of fighters in
Chicago are hoping that John
McCue does not rush the boy to the
front too rapidly. Matty is only eigh
teen years old and will have to he
handled carefully. If care is shown
with him they simply can't keep him
from being a champion.
By Joe Bean.
(Coach at Marist College.)
I N picking what I consider would he
an Ideal prep tearrt this year 1
will have to do a little juggling
of players so that some boys may
receive justice in this selection. It
is true that every year we have the
best players In the league playing In
the infield and as we onjgfhave four
places to till some of these hoys have
In the past been cut out and players
of inferior ability have been placed on
the team.
X can see no reason why these boys
that are good inflelders should not
make good outfielders, and for that
reason will pick some of them to play
outfield positions In preference to
some of the outfielders. In this way
we will secure a strong prop team in
all departments and one able to cope
with the best prep team In the South.
Armistead Best Catcher.
We will take up the position of
catcher. The best catchers In the
league are Armistead, of Boys’ High
School, and Lowry, of Marist, with
the preference In favor of Armistead
He has been In the league a long time,
has a good knowledge of its players,
has a good arm and hits well; In fart,
he has all the requisites that go to
make a good catcher.
Lowry 1s in his first year and has
done fine work for Marist behind the
bat.
The pitchers were very evenly
matched in three of the schools and
all have pitched some good ball. They
are Weston, of T, H. Fox, of 13. H
S., and Callahan, of Marist.
To give a preference to either would
be doing an Injustice to the qther,
but with these three boys In shape
and on the same team opponents
would have a hard time of It.
Fox an Old-timer.
Weston and Callahan pitched their
first year In the league. Fox has
pitched a number of years. Weston
and Callahan have been unfortunate
in not having good teams behind
them, while Fox has had as a whole
the beet balanced team in the league.
My Infield is: Low ; ry, Marist. first;
Lipscomb, B. H. S , second; Spurlock,
B. H. S., shortstop; Allen, Marist,
third.
Lowry Is easily the best first base-
man in the league. This he showed
while playing there before he was
placed behind the bat. He has height,
reach, a good arm and hits the ball
hard.
Lipscomb Is a good, steady second
baseman, covers lots of ground, has a
good arm and hits well. He makes a
good man for the job.
In Class by Themselves.
Spurlock and Allen really have no
contenders for their jobs. They have
been the class of the league In their
respective positions. Both boys are
fast on the bases, hit the ball hard,
have good arms and cover a world of
ground.
As 1 said In the beginning, there are
Infielders that are better ball players
than some of our outfielders, and It
would be an injustice to them and to
the team not to pick them.
Park, of T. H S.; Reynolds, of B.
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H S., and Bedell, of T. H. S„ would
make a dandy outfielder. They are
all good hitters, fast on the base? and
while I have slighted some of the
regular outfielders of the league. I
can’t *ee how the boys that I picked
could be placed on the side line* after
playing the ball they did during this
season.
Parka a Grand Player.
Parks, of T. H. S., is one of the best
ball players in the league and has
demonstrated this on numerous occa
sions.
Reynolds, of B. H. 8., Is also a fast
man, a left-handed hitter and a dandy
outfielder. Being a small boy has not
made any difference with him and it
does not stop roe in picking him for
the team. He has lots of ability.
Bedell, T. H. S., has been playing
the infield, but for his hitting and all
round hustling ability he outclasses a
majority of the other players in the
league and would make a valuable
man on the team, though I could not
place him on the infield. He easily
deserves a place on the team and no
doubt would make a good outfielder.
The team would line up as follows:
Armistead, B. H. 8 Catcher
Weston, T. H. S. Pitohsr
Fox, B. H. S Pitcher
Callahan, Marist Pitcher
Lowry, Marist First base
Lipscomb, B. H. 8. ..... Second base
Allen, Marist Third base
Spurlock, B. H. S. ...'. Shortstop
Parks, T. H. S Outfield
Reynolds, B. H. S j..... Outfield
Bedell, T. H. S Outfield
There are, of course, some other
boys in the league that have played
good b ill and deserve a word of
praise for it. They have ability, but
most of them are handicapped by size
and weight.
Bean’s Honorable Mention.
I would honorably mention Wells
and Sims, P. F. S.; Babb and Brown,
G M. A., and Roberts, of Marist.
Roberts, of Marist, was easily the
All-Prep choice last year. As a field
er he can not be beat, but he has
fallen off in his hitting this season.
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