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...remarkably large number of candidates for the freshman nine appeared in Captain Dean's room last night. Mr. Dean gave them an idea of what would be required of them, and announced the appointment of J. B. Lowell as temporary captain. Candidates will report to him in the gymnasium cage at four o'clock sharp today, when they will begin the usual course of preliminary training. The forty men who came out last night, with the positions in which they desire to play, are: B. F. Linfield, W. Hoag, L. E. Carr, A. A. Highlands, and H. Williams, pitcher...
...candidates for the Yale nine are doing much the same work as our men. They practice throwing and fielding, base running and sliding, daily in the cage, with the usual exercises in the gymnasium and out-door running. In addition to this, every man has certain hours for batting practice, under the coaching of Horner of the New Haven team. The old men who are candidates this year are Poole '91, who played catcher on last year's team; Norman McClintock, who played left field; Cushing '91, right field; Mnrphy '93, centre field; Owsley '92 S., third base; Bowers...
...nothing definite has been decided. The men will probably be divided into squads, and until the season opens these squads will use the cage in the Hemenway Gymnasium three times a week...
...dirt floor of the baseball cage is now carefully raked and rolled every morning. A netting back-stop has been put up and the wall at the pitcher's end has been white-washed...
...candidates for the 'varsity nine worked yesterday afternoon in two squads at half past two and at four. The cage in the Hemenway gymnasium has been given up entirely in favor of the one in the Cary Building where the hand ball courts are also at the disposal of the candidates for the nine. John Clarkson came out from Boston and coached the men trying for pitcher. Grounders were batted in the cage and afterward some of the men took their general exercise in the hand ball courts. H. Bates, who sprained his ankle on a slippery walk the other...