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Show VARSITY BOYSHf FOR BASEBALL inl Coach Porter Expects to Di velop Youngsters Into !wj Champion Team. 1 , i With the state basketball team atmo'J sewed up by the University of Utah nlav ors. tho Interest on the cant 'honch r turning to track and baseball. Th em pf this wock wtu sec the varsity play it V, Inst state same, when llm crimson war d: nors close the reason In Provo witl Ti Coach Roberta's j. y. u. team, if Ben V nlon h team w iim the championship ther ! wll bo a week's trip to Colorado for Jt champ8.0f SUmC11 wUh Ul Cora) m J5, Por,ter a,K! Tommy Fltzpatrlc will handle tho varsity baseball team thl ii year and Just an soon hk basketball i Z over will bcRln the early tralnlnp of th 5 prospective team members. " Since baseball wun added to tho nro lli fframme of Intercollegiate competition 1 V, Utah the oast benchers have won th - elmmpionHhlp wery year. Last year th r Ktronp team which had been playlntr fo Utah for Hie last four years was neart all graduated and it will bo lu-reeEnp for the couches lo whip a bunch i ? youngsters Into shape. r1 Of tho old mon there are but thra ! regulars left. Captain aiulr has been th mainstay In the box for the past tliri years and will in all probability be o the mound for the crimson men again th year. Tho oldest man on the team I1 Frank Hurlbut, who will be plnvlng h r& fourth year In the outllcld. Tho thli pi man on the trio of veternns la' TVa c( Stack, who played a great game In tt & outfield last year. This means that with the exception i pA the pitcher It will be necessary to dcvelc n complete new Infield. Hex Sutherlun the veteran backstop, was elected capta' of this year's team, but nfter the foo ball season he discontinued bin coun at the university. A new catcher, titer A' fore, must be developed. The unforti I, nate thing nbout this is thai Rex Iu bff boen so dependable for the past thr years that there has never been a u t stltutc developed There are, howevj too two men who played good ball behind tl bnl whlli! they were In high school Tl M more promising of these two is .lease Ml m ler. a junior at tho university, who up 3 to catch for the Granite school llo In Ly bf.tMi out of training for some time, h J Is a husky fellow nnd ould tViicltl b V Him shape eooii. Tho other man l Tl jL Magglm.'ltp. who raushi two icarr. a . or the Suit lake high si hoot 5 1,0 First base was loft vacant by I ho ra ji uatlon of Ott Ronmoy. Pcrler will lia y' a cood. speedy substitute (n Bill Mfiugh f, Mnushn formerly held tin- Initial sack f j the B. Y. C. when that team was pJayll c in thn Intersfbolastif division Ilel speodv and a fair bit tor. Jack Travurs is the onl !o a! hoy w & lias shown promise of speed fir the f. J ond Rack, but Jim Howe and Bert To, gnus arc both speedy Infioldors and o of them may land on second Both those fellows played on the I'nlversltyf Indlnnn team last sprlns and come he with first-class roouta lions. At shortstop. Klnkald showed up w last spring as a sub for Lon Roninai ra "ICin" Is rangy and fast, but as yet lii J1 shown poor hitting ability, lie Is your and Porter expects to be able to tiKe hi M to advantage with a little more trainin Third base will doubtless fall to Vad Peterson. "Polo'' played third base fi the Aggies two years ago and was 01 ,of llio best third sackers iu the stale, i T& has a strong arm and is a wicked sluccb Sc In the outfield. Hurlbut and Walt ta will hold their old places. For (he olln St garden Job there will be a score of cai & dldates and doubtless something good wi develop. Vadal Peterson is also reported as ha' ing moro "smoke" than any man' a, school. He pitched n few games ii Wellsvllln last summer and was hlslt i successful. If he can be spared sfrfl .u third base ho will doubtless be used von Z, in tho box. 3 |