Lawrence Keene was the pitcher for the 1910-1912 OAC baseball teams. He should not to be confused with Roy "Spec" Keene, also played baseball and later became OSU athletic director.
Group portrait of Gamma Tau Beta fraternity members, Oregon Agricultural College around 1918. Top row from left to right: Larence Hamilton, Harold Bumbough, Linus Pauling, Theodore Bryant, Stephen Nye, William Wightman. Second row: George Wait, Harold Branrud, Guy Butler, Leonard Freeman, James Torrence Gaither, Lloyd Raab, Newton Strahl, Elmer Ramsay. Third row: William Eilertsen, Irving Mather, Ralph Coleman, Harold M. Tennant, Charles Beatie, Robert Kyle, and Robert Watt.
The team line-up was Otto Moore, catcher; Lawrence Keene, pitcher; George Rieben, pitcher; Harry Cooper, first base; Mervin Horton, second base; Clifford Reed, third base; Ray Poff, left field and team captain; Walter Keck, center field; Emil Carrol, right field; Wren Crews, short stop, V.P. Gianella, manager; Fielder Jones, coach.
First page (page 103) of the baseball chapter of the Orange and Black, published by the Oregon State College Alumni Association in 1938. The top photo shows the first baseball team to wear the OAC uniform and includes: W.L. Sharp, Jesse Tharp, Bill Patterson, Harold Belt, Raymond Henkle; Henry Howells, Will Smith, Al Campbell, and Tom Allen. Fielder Jones is shown in the bottom right photograph. He was the Oregon State coach in 1910 and had previously been the professional baseball coach of the "White Sox Hitless Wonders." The bottom left photo shows the 1910 Northwest champion baseball team.
The drawing was used in the 1913 Orange Yearbook, page 286.Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig's humorous drawings were used extensively throughout the 1913 Beaver Yearbook. Colvig attended OAC in 1911-1913 and gained fame as the voice of Goofy for Walt Disney Studios and Bozo the Clown for Capitol Records. Photo was used in the 1913 Orange yearbook, page 286.
Wren Crews was the short stop for the 1910 OAC baseball team. Wren Clark Crews earned letters for the Beaversfrom 1907-1910. He actually played for the Beavers for 5 years. He was also a memberof the 1906 team, the year before baseball wasmade a varsity sport at OAC.
Only four years after leading the Chicago White Sox to the World Series championship, Fielder Jones was enlisted to coach the OAC baseball team. A salary dispute with Sox owner Charles Comiskey led to Jones' departure from the Windy City and he came to the Pacific Northwest to look after timber and land interests. Coach Jones traveled back and forth between Portland and Corvallis for team practices and games. Jones eventually went to St. Louis to coach that city's Federal League entry in 1914-1915. Jones also managed the American League St. Louis Browns in 1916-1918.
Frederick Mitchell Walker was head coach in 1911. Walker pitched for five different teams in the major leagues in 1910, and 1912-1915. He was known as "Mysterious Walker" in his playing days.