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Show Three University Baseball Stars'There was no individual star, taking the season as a whole. Larsen's pitching was uniformly good, except in the second Agricultural College game. His poor work in this game was excusa-ble,as he had been working during the day in the machine shops and was in no condition to play ball when he came upon the field.Romney and Holmstead formed a combination around second base that is only duplicated in high class professional baseball. Both men are stars and would be such on any College team in the country.Sutherland's work behind the bat was also of a high character and left but little to be desired in that position.Neilson on third and Horsfall on first, both filled their positions well and helped to win games by their batting.The outfield was well taken care of by Hurlburt, Peterson and Van Orden. Hurlburt was probably the best of the three because of his hitting, although Peterson ran him a close race for honors.Van Orden's fielding was first class, but his hitting was somewhat weak. The team was unfortunate in having two men on the bench who were both stars in College baseball. Fitzpatrick had just entered College at mid-year and was therefore ineligible. Had he been permitted to play, he would have covered third base as well as any College player in the country. The same can be said of Sebastian who could perform equally well behind the bat or in the outfield. Both played in the Japanese game, but were ineligible for the intercollegiate league games.Having been asked to write this short sketch of the season of 1911, for the Utonian, I cannot refrain from taking this opportunity of expressing my appreciation of the manner in which all candidates and all members of the team worked during the entire season. It was a pleasure to me to be with them, and I could not soon forget the spirit and the earnest effort to succeed put forth by everybody.Captain Holmstead (1912,) holder of all four "U's," tags Peterson at second162 |
