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Coonley is slow, fields his position well, bats fairly; Walker is a good backstop, accurate but very slow thrower, poor batter; Lighthall is careless, weak on ground balls, poor batter; Wadsworth is uncertain, very poor on ground balls, fair batter but tries to hit too hard; Wilder is a fairly good man but is so slow that he cannot be counted on; Cassatt fields his position very prettily but is not a sure man, fair batter; Phelan is a good fielder; Bigelow is slow and is inclined to go to sleep out in the field, good batter; Adams is very...
...dummy has been rigged up and put in the batter's box in the cage so that the pitchers may know better where to put the ball...
From the above list it will be seen that four of the men who played against Harvard last year are not this year trying for the team, Woodcock, the famous pitcher and batter, Mendenhall, l.f., Messer, r.f., McDonald...
...good man cannot be found, he will probably have to take the place again. At second base Case may possibly play. He pitched considerably last year, but finally ended the season by playing left field on the 'varsity. He was not an ideal outfielder; but he is a good batter, and as he has had some experience on second he may be transferred there. Beall who played short stop in one of the Princeton games is also a candidate for the the position...
...team they play against. They defeated Brown recently without much difficulty, and have beaten several other strong college teams. Stafford, who is pitching for the nine, is an exprofessional, having pitched for the Worcester team for two or three seasons. Besides being a good pitcher he is a heavy batter; two years ago in the games between Worcester and Harvard his batting was the feature of the games. O'Neil, the first baseman, is another player who has made a reputation for himself. Captain Anson, of the Chicago team, thinks that O'Neil is one of the coming players...