Sportsman

Last spring Edgar William Warren II of Westwood, Mass. was the best shortstop on any Eastern college baseball team. Last summer, in the Adirondacks he slipped off the deck of a motorboat that was turning around for someone who had fallen off an aquaplane, got caught in the propeller. His left arm had to be amputated. His Yale baseball mates insisted he remain their captain notwithstanding.

Last week the Yale baseball team played Wesleyan, won 15 to 2. Captain Warren played right field. In five times at bat, he knocked a long fly, then a single which scored a run, then a hard grounder, got a base on balls, struck out. In the field he handled two chances perfectly. His line in the box-score read: "Warren, rf. 4 2 1 0 0 0" Fielder Warren now plays with a glove that has no back-strap. When catching a ball, he shakes his glove off, throws with his bare hand. He uses a short 28-oz. bat, four ounces lighter than normal. This spring he took up squash. He goes around a golf course in 115, swims, plans to study medicine. He practices with his players every day but, because he thinks the team might do better without him, he said last week that the Wesleyan game was the last he would play in.

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