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...candidates for the freshman nine are doing regular work in the cage every day now catching grounders, sliding bases, and starting. The best men for first base are Lighthall, Rogers, Caswell, Stevenson; for second base, Dreyfus, Phelan, and Dodge; for third base Lawton, P. W. Whittemore, and Worman; for short stop, Mills, Cassatt, J. K. Whittemore, Adams, and Wilder; for the outfield, Bent, Bacon, Bigelow, Floyd, and Winslow. Two of the pitchers are working under Keefe, the others under Downer. The best men are W. T. Smith, Reed, Webb, Coonley, and G. L. Smith. The good catchers are Bacon, Eddy...
...nine, as yet, has been compelled for the most part to work in the cage, but if this good weather holds on the progress should be very rapid. The work in the cage has not materially changed. The men spend considerable time in starting from bases and sliding. In addition they take a quick run, and finish with some dumb-bell work...
...Tuesday an artist made several sketches of the batteries and candidates for the nine, practising in the cage. They are to appear in Harper's Weekly...
Norton, who was Dartmouth's second baseman two years ago and who is now at Yale, was injured quite seriously in the cage recently and will be unable to play for some time...
...dummy has been rigged up and put in the batter's box in the cage so that the pitchers may know better where to put the ball...