Lining Them Up

Haul Mariaschin and Walter Coulson stand as the big men with the hickory sticks as the Varsity baseball team takes the field for its twelfth game of the season today. The Crimson's starting shortstop and left fielder sport .364 and .333 averages respectively as Coach Adolph Samborski's forces near the half-way mark of the 1947 loop.

The only other man in the charmed circle for the Varsity is first baseman Bill Fitz who registers at an even .300 with 12 safeties for 40 at bats while the team as a whole has a .254 average.

Leader in the RBI columns is also big Walt Coulson who has batted 15 runs across, three more than anyone else on the club. Fitz, Mariaschin, and center-fielder John Caulfield are tied for the runnerup position, each having driven in 12 markers.

Since Red Connolly left the squad with his record of three wins and one loss for a 1.51 earned run average, right-hander Brendan Reilly emerges from the statistics as the Crimson's leading member of the moundstaff. His record stands at two wins and one loss with an earned run average of 2.79. Ira Godin comes next having racked up a one and one record and a 4.08 earned run average, while Jack Wallace, the only other pitcher to see action for the Varsity, also has a one and one record but his earned run mark stands at 5.78.

Batting averages for the rest of the active players are: Jack Forte, .150; John Caulfield .273; Jack Wallace, .272; Bill Hamlen, .265; John Coppinger, .167; Len Lunder, .207; Bill Barron, .286. Pitchers Godin and Reilly are both hitless.

When the averages are figured on the basis of the three Ivy League contests so far played results come out slightly different for Bill Fitz then leads the club with a .400 average, followed by Walt Coulson still with .333, Mariaschin with .300, and Caulfield with .308. Jack Wallace who has appeared in only one Ivy League game has a .500 mark.

Earlier this week the Varsity lost another pitcher to the Ivy League semi-pro rulings when Freshman-veteran right-hander Ralph Hymans was declared ineligible since he pitched several games in the Northern League before entering College.

On the strength of power at the plate displayed in practice drills, Jack Wallace has taken over the right field pastures when he is not on the mound.