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...freshman baseball squad, battery candidates included practiced on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. During the first part of the practice some of the men were given batting practice at the nets, while the others were given fielding practice. Two nines were then formed and a three inning game was played although no count of runs was kept. The batting was weak on both sides, but the fielding of the first team was decidedly good for this time of year...
Yesterday afternoon the lacrosse squad began harder practice which will be kept up from now on, for the present at least, on Holmes Field. For the first time enough men came out to make two full sides, fourteen on each, and for an hour and a half the regular game with two goals was played...
...number of new men for the spring football squad was yesterday increased to twenty-five. The practice consisted of the usual preliminary work after which the candidates for the line tried breaking through, while the backs practiced punting, catching and running with the ball. Captain Wrightington took charge of the backs and was assisted by Frank Shaw, and Merriman of the ninety-six eleven who coached the line...
During the first part of the afternoon the candidates for the 'varsity nine practiced batting in front of the nets, those on the first squad being pitched to by Gregory and Fitz, while Arnold pitched to those on the second. The second squad kept this up most of the afternoon, varied by fielding grounders and catching flies, but the first was divided into two nines which played one of their usual irregular games, no score being kept either of runs or innings. Cozzens and Morton began as the battery for the first nine, but afterwards Brown took Morton's place...
Yesterday afternoon in answer to the call of Captain Wrightington fifteen men came out on Soldiers Field for practice on the spring squad. Of these none have ever played on any class team and several have had no experience at all. R. Livermore who played halfback on Hopkinson School team last fall and K. S. Barnes of the Cambridge Latin, both of whom expect to enter as freshmen next year, were among the candidates. The ground was in very poor condition so that it was hard for the men to get any sharp practice. Captain Wrightington, however, tried the backs...