Word: batters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are two routes to the Newton grounds. The batter is to take a Harvard Bridge car to Beacon street, change to Newton Boulevard car and ride to the end of the line, change to Commonwealth Avenue car which goes past the entrance to the grounds. Time, 45 minutes. To go by the second route, take a Newton car at Harvard square and ride to Nonantum square, Newton; change-to car for Newtonville; change at Newtonville for Newton Centre or Highlands to Walnut street. Walk three-eighths of a mile to the grounds. Time 50 minutes
...Bergen, Clark, Litchfield, and Ewer; for short stop-Laughlin, Pote, McVey, Galbraith, Beardsell and Stevens. At second Chandler seems to be a better man than at short, which is his old position. He is a good hitter and fielder but is nervous and easily overtrained. Holt is an erratic batter and is inclined to fight the ball in fielding. The other candidates for this position are practically new men whose abilities can hardly be estimated at this time in the season...
...promising candidate. He is a good fielder but only fair at the bat. Bergen, a Medical School man, is a hard hitter, but fields awkwardly and is slow in handling thrown balls. Clark, a Freshman and captain of the Groton School team last year, has proved himself a good batter and steady fielder. He is nevertheless very slow in getting the ball...
...battery candidates have now been working a month under Mr. Lewis, but not until recently have they been given the more practical work of pitching to a batter. With the exception of Cozzens and Fitz, the squad is for the most part raw material and little can be told of the men individually until they have been tried in games. At present there seems to be no one who can quite fill the places left vacant by the graduation of Paine and Scannell...
...given different kinds of work, based upon the showing made in the elementary developmental process which the men have first passed through. Those men who have shown promising form and have thus far obtained fair control of the ball will devote all of their time to pitching to a batter, whereas the other squad will be kept on the elementary work until they have qualified themselves for going into the more advanced division...