New Baseball Coach

Bob Shawkey, former pitching ace

and manager of the New York Yankees, is Dartmouth's new baseball coach, it was announced last month by William H. McCarter '19, director of athletics. Shawkey succeeds Eddie Jeremiah '30, coach of the past four years, who will continue as Big Green hockey mentor.

Shawkey, who lives in Syracuse, N. Y., pitched for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1913 to 1915 and for the Yankees from 1915 to 1927. He managed the Yankees in 1930. His best year was 1916 when he won 24 games and lost 14. In 1920 his earned run average of 2.46 in 267 innings was the best in the American League. Shawkey pitched for the Yankees in the 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1926 World Series.

After leaving the Yankees in 1930, Dartmouth's new baseball coach managed Jersey City in 1931 and then the Newark club from 193 a to 1936. For the next nine years, until 1945, he was in business in this country and Canada. Since then he has managed the Watertown, N. Y., team in the Border League and the Jamestown, N. Y., club, while serving as scout and coach for Pittsburgh and later for Detroit.

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