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Show The 1911 Baseball ChampionshipCoach R. J. PorterROBERT J. PORTER, the conservative baseball enthusiast, who drove Utah's team to the championship goal last year, is in 'his spare moments an attorney-at-law. Bob's dignity, acquired by close association with professional men, follows him onto the field. The gentlemanly dignity of his bearing has out-cropped in the team members, making them not only presentable as players of the national game, but also as men of the best college type. The services of such a man are of rich value to anyone, and we may justly pride ourselves on securing such an able teacher.Coach "Bob" PorterThe Team and Its GamesCOACH PORTERTHE opening of the baseball season of 1911 saw but one old man back. Baseball had been dropped as an inter-collegiate sport in 1910. Captain Leo Larson was, therefore, the only man on the 1911 team who had played on the team before. Notwithstanding the lack of old material, there was plenty of new, and the spirit displayed from the beginning bespoke a successful season.Because of having been newly sodded, the playing field was rough and those who made the team and who tried out for it had this additional difficulty to contend with. The weather during the greater part of the spring was not conducive to good baseball. Despite these disadvantages, the members of the team worked hard and as a rule played good baseball.The first game of the season was played with a team representing the Waseda University of Japan. The game was a good one, even though the University lost. The game was played at Cooky's New Park and the ground was quite soft. This had probably as much to do with losing the game as any one thing. The contest proved that the Japanese are apt students at a game which, we have always considered, was especially an American game. The second game was with the Agricultural College at Logan, and was won by the University, principally by the160 |