Word: infielding
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Forty-two men reported on Tuesday of last week in response to the call issued by Captain Bowman for candidates for battery positions on the university baseball team, and at the same time fifty-seven candidates reported for infield and outfield positions on the freshman nine. Indoor practice for all candidates is now being held in the cage and will continue until the weather permits outdoor work...
...University team was given fairly hard practice yesterday afternoon. The work was sharp and fast, particularly that of the infield, and showed a great improvement over the listlessness displayed in the Carlisle game on Wednesday...
...last half of the ninth inning Emerick and Bynner got to first on successive errors by Greene and Tweed. Barnes, batting for Drisko, struck out, but Wallace's infield hit filled the bases, and Behr's two-base hit scored the winning run for the Yale freshmen...
...fielding was weak and six errors were made, but at the bat the second team made eleven hits, Norwich making only four, and Taylor struck out ten men. Many of the second nine's runs were due to frequent errors and wild pitches by the Norwich infield...
...Freshmen showed some improvement, bunching five of their nine hits in the second inning. The fielding, however, was discouraging. In the infield the men still showed a tendency to drop thrown balls, and in the outfield two costly errors were made. The Freshmen made seven runs and six hits off Little in the first two innings. Auchincloss, who took Little's place in the third inning, proved, however, much more effective, and allowed only three hits. Brennan pitched a fairly creditable game for the Freshmen but was unsteady in the first few innings, hitting three-batsmen, and giving two bases...