Intramural athletics got a further and almost final word on the home stretch of the Straus Trophy competition yesterday, when director Adolph Samborski and the House secretaries agreed on baseball and softball and ironed out kinks in three other sports.
Biggest news was a round robin baseball series in place of the double elimination tourney once planned. "By using the Varsity and Freshman diamonds when those teams are away and anticipating very little rain," said Samborski, "we can just squeeze one round in."
While regular umpires will arbitrate baseball games, softballers must provide their own martyrs to the cause from non-playing members, and in addition must carry on without the benefit of stolen bases, bunts, or leads off base before the pitch reaches the batter. Seven innings will suffice in both hard and softball, while the usual four and a half or five frames will constitute an official game.
Oarsmen will be under the direction of business school student Dick Davis, who rowed for the Cornell crew in 1939.
There was no further word on golf, although Samborski heard suggestions on possible courses in the neighborhood and will make further investigations.
As it stands now, the House secretaries must conduct private golf and tennis tournaments as best they can, submitting teams to Samborski for formal competition early in May. This plan, though not entirely satisfactory, was adopted in place of no competition at all in these sports.
Nothing final has been decided yet about an inter-House track meet.
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