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...Bergen, Clark, Litchfield, and Ewer; for short stop-Laughlin, Pote, McVey, Galbraith, Beardsell and Stevens. At second Chandler seems to be a better man than at short, which is his old position. He is a good hitter and fielder but is nervous and easily overtrained. Holt is an erratic batter and is inclined to fight the ball in fielding. The other candidates for this position are practically new men whose abilities can hardly be estimated at this time in the season...
...given different kinds of work, based upon the showing made in the elementary developmental process which the men have first passed through. Those men who have shown promising form and have thus far obtained fair control of the ball will devote all of their time to pitching to a batter, whereas the other squad will be kept on the elementary work until they have qualified themselves for going into the more advanced division...
...work has consisted mainly of developing form and control. Until the last few days, in fact, the men had been confined strictly to pitching straight balls. From now on, however, most of the time will be devoted to curves and in pitching to a batter. The limited space of the cage will, however, prevent any extended line of work in this direction, so that the harder and more practical training will come upon the completion of the new cage on Soldiers Field...
...three runs were made in the third inning. The first man up got his base on an error, and was advanced to third by bunts of the next two men. The next batter knocked a long fly which the right fielder misjudged, and the three men scored...
...cricket eleven plays Brockton today at Brockton. Harvard will miss P. H. Clark '96, the best batter and bowler on last year's eleven, and G. Lippincott '96, both of whom have left college. Their places, however, will be well filled by two of last season's Haverford eleven, D. H. Adams and A. G. Scattergood. They both went to England on the Haverford eleven this summer and ranked second and third respectively in the batting averages of the trip. Adams, too, had the best bowling average and Scattergood was the regular wicket-keeper. Among other new men are Webster...