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FRESHMAN NINE. - All candidates must be in the cage dressed for practice at 4.10, sharp. Anyone who finds it necessary to be absent from practice must let me know at 31 Thayer, before...
...candidates for the base ball nine at Princeton have stopped practising in the gymnasium, and have been put to work in the cage. Work will be continued here until the weather is suitable for outside work...
...batteries have already begun light work in the cage, and immediately after the Junior Promenade all candidates will go into training. There has been some talk of having a second nine, but the idea has been given up. However the men will be put into two divisions, one practising in the morning; the other in the afternoon. The number of candidates will be reduced as rapidly as possible so that the men who are ultimately to compose the team may do better work...
There are now about thirty candidates for the 'varsity baseball nine working each day in the Cary building under the coaching of Captain Frothingham. The exercise in the cage consists in batting grounder, sliding twice a week, base running, and starting, which is done by the aid of a pitcher. The men then take a short run out of doors, after which they go to the gymnasium and there go through a dumb-bell exercise. There is at present no strict training and will probably be none until the beginning of the spring trip...
...players are taught the utmost quickness both in stopping the ball and in recovery, then accurately and swiftly to return it underhanded and overhanded. Much attention is given to base-sliding, head foremost as well as feet foremost, and to sliding around and in front of the base. A cage, consisting of cord netting suspended from the ceiling and enclosing a space 70 by 30 feet, will be put in position in a week or two for battery work...