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...Stagg and Dann will be the Yale battery against the Athletics next Saturday. Mattison and Gunning will be the Athletic battery...
James O'Rourke, the well-know base-ball player, says the Yale nine are doing excellent work and it is his opinion the team will be stronger this year than ever. The base sliding apparatus of Captain Stagg pleased Mr. O'Rourke, and he intends recommending the use of a similar apparatus to the New York club...
...Stagg recently decided to take a four years' course in the Yale divinity school, consequently he will continue to pitch for victorious Yale nines for four years to come. Dann has decided to take a postgraduate course, and will therefore be on hand to take his old position behind the bat. This will be anything but pleasant information to the men of Harvard and Princeton.- Herald...
...candidates for the Yale Nine have been training in the cage for about five weeks, The greater part of the training has been in batting, each man having a turn regularly every day. Captain Stagg is teaching the new nine. Of last year's team, Stagg, Dann, Spencer, McConkey, Noyes, Stewart and Hurst, and substitutes Heyworth, Osborn, McClintock and Wurtenberg are candidates again this year. The new men are doing very good work. Phelps, P. G., who played in his class team while in college is a poor batter, although a good fielder...
...Captain Stagg, of Yale, has invented a machine to assist in the practice of sliding bases. It is a frame work 14 feet long about 4 feet high, covered with tightly-stretched canvas, which is in turn covered with a piece of carpet. The men rush the length of the cage, and throwing themselves on the machine, shoot headlong across its surface...