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...training about two weeks. Over one hundred candidates have presented themselves and have been divided into eights and a temporary captain appointed over each eight. All the crews work regularly in the Gymnasium. At present the daily routine consists of twenty minutes on the machines, followed by chest weights, dumb-bells, and a short run on the board track. Owing to a scarcity of oars at the boat house the Freshmen have been obliged to use the tank oars in their early work on the river. These will be returned shortly, when a regular set is provided for the Freshmen...
...hoped to get the men out on Holmes Field yesterday, and the track was carefully raked and rolled. The snow has put it in very poor condition again, however, and it can hardly be used this week. In the meantime the chest-weight and dumb-bell drills will continue but there will be no more indoor hurdling and less running on the board track...
...first day of practice. Each man is given six grounders to field and throw to first; this is followed by practice in quick starting and sliding. Then the squad is taken at a sharp run round to the Gymnasium by way of North Avenue, where they are put through dumb bell exercises. As a whole the squad, which now numbers about 35, has showed marked improvement; the men are not so awkward in sliding as at first, although they are still very slow at starting. The fielding is rather cleaner and the men seem to be learning how to handle...
...Freshman baseball squad has now been in training for three weeks. The squad, numbering about fifty-five men, does the regular dumb-bell exercise in the Gymnasium and then in the cage the men have practice in fielding grounders, sliding and starting...
About twenty men are now trying for the Senior crew. The work is still the same as before, consisting of chest-weight and dumb-bell drill, followed by a run, in addition to the regular work on the machines. The material for the crew is very good physically, but as yet the rowing is poor and the time is bad. Nevertheless the men are rapidly improving and by the time they go on the river they will probably be in good shape. Of the new men who have come out, Scattergood, Sullivan and Kidder are the most promising and they...