Word: shortstop
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...coln may decide the second base problem," according to McInnis. He has five men there, "all equally good." Veterans John Canepa, Wait Greeley, Paul Crowley, and sophomore Frank Nahigian are all after the job. Canepa played there last season with Crowley, while hockey captain Greeley alternated at shortstop...
Basketball captain-elect Ed Krinsky seems to have the shortstop job clinched. Krinsky fielded better than he hit last season, and McInnis is thinking of using transfer student Nestore D'Angelo there for depth. Paul Murphy, one of the best all around players on last year's freshman team, is on probation...
...York Highlanders (now the Yankees), Baltimore fans have yearned for a return to the big leagues. The older fans could still recall the heyday of the old big-league Orioles, who won three straight pennants-1894-96-and boasted such baseball immortals as Third Baseman John ("Muggsy") McGraw, Shortstop Hughie Jennings, Catcher Wilbert Robinson and Outfielder Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler. Baltimore's return to the big leagues, it appeared, would have to wait a while...
Some 25 hopefuls were on hand, not including several key men. Paul Murphy, last year's freshman shortstop, is ineligible, while last year's varsity third baseman Ray Maosaka has too heavy a lap schedule to play this spring...
...Year." Born in South Amboy, N.J., the O'Briens decided to go to Seattle in the summer of 1949, when they met Coach Al Brightman, who doubles as Seattle's baseball coach. Scouting a semi-pro baseball tournament in Wichita, Kans., Brightman was taken with hard-hitting Shortstop Johnny (last year's average: .433) and Outfielder Ed (.431) of the South Amboy team.* When Brightman heard that the twins were also good basketball players, he made them a scholarship offer (free tuition and $75 a month for living expenses...