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JDa. CUWl TAM HEEL. Vol. 10. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, K. C , March 6, 1902. No. 20. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY ' ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. a ' " . 1 111 T ATHLETICS, Approaching Game. Coach. League Players. In the last issue of the Tar Heel was an article taken from the Col lege lofiics on "Baseball at the Big Four Southern Colleges." The writer pointed out that Cor nell, on her Southern trip,. would play the "Big- Four' and as Vir ginia came last a comparison of the scores would , be interesting. The interesting' point of the article to us is the fact that it calls to mind the nearness of the approaching season. Only sixteen days are to elapse be fore the game with the Oak Ridge Institute is to be played, only eighteen days, before the games with Lafayette. This is a short'time; but if every moment possible ;is utilized in prac tice, Jas" has been the case during the past, few week:?, we will doubt less ,be ' read Vt for", the contests. While; th'e'' earth was submerged'., by snow ' the ball - men did effective work in. the Gymnasium, and since its disappearance, there have been some intensely; interesting games on the field. ' There are many' points that pres age a successful season for us, (1) the number .... of men to select from, (2) the captain and (3) the coach. During the early part of the football season last fal . we were constrained to ask the stu dents to manifest some spirit, some interest in the football work. This has been absolutely unnecessary thus far this spring. The number of contestants for the different po sitions, and the keen rivalv, inevi table under such conditions, giws an interest, to the students in the . . . .i 1 srames. tnat no outer conauions could afford. Every afternoon the diamond is surrounded by specta tors, and well repaid are they for coming out. The two contestants upon which all eyes are at this period centered, are Wilcox and Sweeney. These tvvirlers are closely matched, and the students are eagerly watching for a manifestation of superiority in one over the other. Both are calm and confident in appearance, but to the eye of the close observer, a feeling of uncertainty is seen oc casionally to lurk out. The contestants for the position of catcher are also attracting at tention. This is generally consid ered the weakest point in the pros pective make-up of our team, but the feeling doubtless comes from comparing all catchers to the in comparable catcher, Graves E. The coach is confident that from the four candidates a good man will be secured. Councill feels that, alter securing his position on every ()Uier team he cannot fail in this, while Graham, Wilcox and Patter son feel equally confident of suc-Ct-ss. In the meantime the stu dents are observing with interest the development of the men,' For third base there is some doubt and therefore interest in the con testants. Smathers is superior to his competitors in every respect ex cept one. He can't hold a pop-fly This deficiency will doubtless be overcome. At every position, for that mat ter, there is rivalry. In next week's issue: a criticism of the in dividual players will bi given. As for the C.iptiin all are famil- of thp Va-N.C. League. Ashonback is engaged - this year to pliy on the Charlotte team, and as soon as the season opens, he will leave, for that city. : : :. ' Frbm the above facts it is evi dent Asheuback is eminently quali fied to coach our team to success. He has an exuberance of wit, which though often displeasing to the vic tims, still enlivens the game and af fords a novelty, to the students. He proposes to pay explicit atten- iar with his history as a baseball 1 tion in the near future to base-run player and his qualification, for the nirtg and the development of ; position he now holds. catcher.' ' ' :' But a few words with reference ' Another factor of importance in to the Coach may be of interest, the development of our team and Ashenback was born :n Cincinnati .one that . will increase' interest tor in 1872. Iff early boyhood he played on amateur teams in his native city, and before his eighteenth birthday the next few weeks, will be the presence of the Philadelphia Ameri can League players. If the weath Swill lllfllii 5v: , i Wv lit COACH E. M. ASHENBACK. was engaged to play on the team of Canton, Ohio. This team was at that time a member of the Tri State league of 1890. Associated with Ashenback on this team was Cy Young, one of the speediest tvvirlers that ever faced a batter. ' In 1892- 93 Ashenback joined the Allentown team of Pennsylva nia State league, at that time the strongest minor league in America. In 1895 he went South and joined the Rollers club. At that period the club was under the. control of Ted Sullivan, and the team turned out was no other than Sullivan's famous "Texas Steers" which has gone down in baseball history as a world record breaker. Twenty four consecutive games were cred ited to them before they finally lost in a sixteen-inning contest. In 1898 Ashenback was engaged to olav on the New Castle team. Here he distinguished himself, in fact winning the pennant. When! 27th the Virginia State League was formed in 1899, he became a mem ber with control of the Hampton nine. Here he made great success and in 1901 was the chief promoter er permits work we should derive incalculable advantage from prac tice with these veteran, ball players. Barnhard, the famous All Ameri can, is among the number that will be down here, and many points will doubtless be gained from this great player. , A. W. Manirum, well known some years back as a Varsity base ball player, has returned to College with the intention of again playing ball. He was a few nirhts aro elected captain and ceach of the scrubs, and with the following men who compose his, team, is doing some brilliant work: Catchers Wil cox, Council, Patterson, and W. A. Graham; pitchers, Mangum, Smith, McDonald; infield, Brem, Pritchard, Graves, Worth, Cheshire, and Gra ham, G.; outfielders'. Hill, Fenner, and Jacocks. The track work begins March Next week's issue will con tain a list of the different candi dates, but in the meantime it would be well for the management to con sider the condition of the track. Prof. Cobb's Lecture. Sand Reefs of the North Carolina Coast. For a number of years Professor Collier Cobb has spent portions of his vacations on the sand and coral reefs of. the Atlantic coast, and on Thursday evening last he gave a most interesting lecture on the Sand Reefs of the North Carolina Coast to a crowded house in Ger rard Hall. The lecture was illus trated by more than sixty stereopti cau views from photographs taken by Professor Cobb in his several trips to our coast. These reefs constitute a chain of long and narrow; island, lying off the mainland and extending- for three hundred and fifty miles of our coast, a barrier between our sound and the sea. The waves, rolling in from the sea, break when they strike shallow water, and deposited on the slightly submerged continent tal shelf the sand Which they hold in suspension. In this way these Banks, which form such a peculiar physical feature of our coast, have been formed. They vary in breadth from a few yards to five miles, and in length, two to thirty-two miles. The views, after the maps, began with a photograph of the old FryT iiig-pan Shoal light-ship, anchored upon a shoal at the extreme south ern point of the state some miles from land. The -palm trees and other tropical plants on Smith's Is land were a revelation to many of .it i us, as were also tne oroau sano- waves whhh have been slowly and steadily m.ircYmg across many of the islands sine: th. cutting of t'i. live iHvi i; s i,p ti n ),'is al) nit tlu time of the Civil War. Many of these inlands have upon them wild go is or wihl s.iejp, and nereis or small m irsh ponies roam over seve ral of them. These ponies are a hardy breed native to the island, and receive no care from the inhabi tants except at the annual pony penning. The wind-mills, the small straw-thatched huts and the bull-pens of the fishermen together with the live oaks, palms, and fan palmettos, make one think ot Hol land and ot Africa more than our own country. The fan palm is found on Hatteras, which is tha northern limit, of the palmetto, though no palms of any kind are found on the islands south of Hat teras until Smith's Island is reach ed. Numbers of small islands within the reefs were occupied by attractive club houses of northern hunters, but the account of Hatter is was the most important portion of the lec ture. This island is more than 25 miles from the nearest, point of the mainland, and 65 miles from the nearest town of any size. The tall lighthouse, the wireless telegraph station, the Weather Bureau signal station, the life saving stations, and the new light-ship on Diamond Shoal, furnished with electric appa ratus which sends a perpendicular (Continued on M page.)
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