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...resulted in a victory for Putnam's team by a score of 7 to 2. The following men on Putnam's team will get cups: Manning, Dudley, Foster, Murphy, Lancy, Carr, Putnam, Stewart, Pieper, Leonard, and Frothingham. There will be no further practice now until the beginning of cage work in February...
...fall practice. The spring squad promises to be an exceptionally large one and any knowledge that the captain and coaches may have acquired during the fall as regards the playing ability of a man, will stand him in good stead when the weeding out process of the cage-work begins...
...fall baseball work in no way tends toward the formation of a team. It is held simply for the purpose of examining the material with a view to rendering the judgment of the spring work in the cage more fair...
...cage work the squads are usually too large to permit of an absolutely satisfactory test being made, so that it will be to the advantage of every man who intends to come out in the spring to participate in the fall work...
...present season there were in College four of the regular members of last year's team. With this substantial nucleus to start on, the whole University was thoroughly canvassed for promising material by Captain Reid, and an unusually large number of candidates reported for work at the cage. New systems of practice were adopted in the cage, by which each man was given every possible chance to show his ability in real baseball. In place of the old regime of three grounders to a man, plays were substituted which were modelled exactly on those which take place in actual games...