Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 26 | Utah Colleges will Play Baseball Again

UTAH COLLEGES WILL PLAY BASEBALL AGAIN Plans Are Completed for Organization of Leagues; Schools Start Work. Collegiate baseball in Utah appears to be coming back as one of the schools' big sports. Last year the interest in the diamond game waned so far that only the University of Utah had a baseball base-ball club in the field. Despite the inclement in-clement 'weather the diamond game is being discussed in the big institutions and indications are that the national pastime will enjoy a successful season in the higher schools, that is, the .University .Uni-versity of Utah, Agricultural college, B. Y. university and the B. Y. college. There is no reason why baseball should not be played in the colleges. It is one of the leading sports in many of the high schools and the students are always al-ways eager to go out for the clubs. It is planned to arrange a college schedule sched-ule which will bring each school against every other club twice during the year. This will mean six games for each school and will leave plenty of time for the colleges to take on high school aud semi-pro or amateur clubs. Coaches Jack Watson and Joe Jenson of the Agricultural college want the game. They have issued the initial call tor baseball material and work in the gymnasium has started. The Aggies have an abundance of diamond artists who should be able to give their opponents op-ponents a nice little scramble. When asked about enterine the colleae league both Jenson and Watson were enthusiastic enthu-siastic over the reorganization of the baseball clubs in the iig schools. Nelson NorgTen of the University of Utah is one of the big boosters of the game in Utah. The university was the only big school in the state lo have a team last season, aud although the club did not enjoy a very successful year, yet the experience gained by the players play-ers is expected to stand them in good stead this year. Practically the entire 1916 club will be in uniforms this vear. The first call for baseball candidates will be made the latter part of the week, when Coach Norgren returns from Chicago, Chi-cago, where he accompanied the B. Y. university to the national basketball tourney. Tho B. Y. university has been successful suc-cessful in turning out several neat aggregations, ag-gregations, and although little is known of the baseball material at the institution, institu-tion, yet the Provo school -will he well represented in the league. Dell Webb, who has had charge of the diamond game for several years, has proven his ability to put forth some strong collegiate col-legiate clubs. Work in this line of sport has already started at the Provo school.