St Marys College - Dial Yearbook (St Marys, KS)

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Obe baseball Ccagues baseball leagues have gotten away to one of the slowest starts in the 62..jpjjj history of the grand old game at this institution. Up to date hardly enough games have been played to say the leagues are started. The reasons for this are many and varied but the primary and most important one is that you can't play baseball in the rain. Rains frequent enough to keep the fields looking like swamps have fallen all spring. Besides this the interest in the baseball leagues has suffered. In the old days when town “pers were scanty, and when there was no golf course, the students naturally turned to baseball for their recreation and as a consequence there was no difficulty in getting the players to turn out for the games. The existing conditions should he improved for the baseball leagues have been the training camps for the Varsity in the past. The games used to be really good, hard fought, well pitched, and often errorless frays. They not only held the interest of the players but often attracted larger crowds of students than some of the Varsity games. It is hoped that with the arrival of better weather the leagues will snap out of their lethargy and show something of the old time pep. In the first league only two practice games have been placed in the books at the time this was written. In one of these pre-season games the Sen-Juns triumphed over the Frosh. while on the same day the Sophs tasted defeat at the hands of the snappy fourth High School club which latter boasts in I Idlings one of the best pitchers in the leagues. As far as can be judged the Sen-Juns seem to have a good club. Last year they had no pitchers while this year over halt the team can take their turn on the mound if necessary. The Sophs also have a very nice team and with Johnny Berg, the best southpaw twirler in the leagues, they should be hard to keep down. The Frosh team seems to be the weak sister of the circuit for there is a dearth of pitchers in the class. The other leagues have done slightly better. The Sen-Inn Seconds and the Soph Seconds seem to be holding the inside track in second league. The Small Yard, as usual, seems to be off to a flying start. Baseball there has its usual number of followers and the games arc fast and replete with thrills and excitement. In the first league (ileeson is the pace-setter with three victories and no defeats, though Boyd is right on his heels with only one defeat chalked up against him. Arth and Ries are struggling to get started and once they do the standings may be reversed. In second league Sullivan tops the list, though by a very narrow margin. Butler or Homer are very likely to snatch the leader’s crown if he slips as they are both tied for second place. Roney is now doing cellar duty but has determined that the end of the season will see somebody else at the foot of the stairs. t Our Hundred Fifty-nine

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RACK this season lias furnished an example of the difficulty of trving to maintain two sports at a small college, during the spring months. The difficulty arises in that baseball absorbs the greatest interest, following, and number of athletes. In spite of this the results this season were better than one would expect. With the small number that turned out for track Coach Stanley Carroll has done very nicely. The greatest handicap that he had to overcome was the absence of all of last year’s letter-men. Of the old timers on the squad, Hyland and Poos have been the best performers. They have turned in the several firsts in the weight events. Big “Hank” has even been lifting his 210 lbs. over the bar to make several points in the high jump. Brungardt has not as yet perfected a start that will put him out in front, though in the low hurdles he has been quite a sensation, easily winning that event in two meets. Wrobleski and Morriscy can clear a nice stretch of sand in the broad jump. They failed to hit their proper stride in the Washburn meet but both came through in the Ottawa meet to capture first and second. Washburn won the first meet of the season by taking 12 firsts and amassing 85 points while the Irish were gathering 45. The second meet was with Ottawa. That school won the meet in a 82-4!) victory. Poos took first in the shot-put in the Washburn meet, Hyland did likewise in the discus, and Brungardt in the low hurdles. To these were added Wrobleski’s in the broad jump and Tate’s victory in the 440, this latter in spite of the fact he donned a suit for the first time on that day. It is hoped that the improvement shown in this meet will be further noticeable in the triangular meet to he held with Bethany and Wesleyan. One llunited Sixty-one