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Varsity baseball moved onto Soldiers Field for the first time this year yesterday afternoon as Coach Adolph Samborski divided his squad into two teams and held a practice game which ran for the regulation nine innings...
...Coach Bill Barclay, who is training Crimson duffers for the first time, has asked Varsity hopefuls to report at two o'clock, and aspirants for the Freshman teams to check in one hour later. At least 25 men are expected to put in an appearance at these meetings...
Playing surfaces proved the chief stumbling-black to tennis coach Jack Barnaby's team as they dropped two quick matches to navy, 5-4, and Army, 6-3, in the season's openers at the service academies...
More concerned with the thoughts and reactions of Russians, than in their physical setting, "Through Russia's Back Door" is a running account of conversations and incidents from Shanghai to Berlin, as a reporter saw them. Lauterbach was tied down to a coach of the Trans-Siberian Railway through most of the trip, and the book necessarily suffers from the limitations of such a vantage point. This narrow scope of observation does not, however invalidate his report; it merely robs it of the greater sampling possible if be had been allowed free rein to talk and travel as he pleased...
...early season problems facing Samborski at the moment, the most embarrassing has been the lack of outdoor practice. The squad's workout yesterday on chilly Soldiers Field was the first time the entire team performed anywhere except in the Stygian gloom of Briggs Cage. Some weeks ago, the coach allowed his outfield to get some pasturage, but yesterday's session was the first opportunity Varsity players have had to bat against a normal background, and to study the intricate gyrations a baseball can perform on natural turf...