Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Both University and Freshman base-ball squads were able to practice outdoors yesterday on the Freshman diamond, the University diamond being still unfit for use. The University squad practiced first, forming two teams, which played a nine-inning practice game, resulting in a victory for Team A by a score of 3 to 0. Two of these tallies were scored by C. Wyche '18, and one by F. P. Coolidge '16. The Freshman squad had its usual batting and fielding practice, taking the field as soon as the University had finished...
...Princeton varsity practiced outdoors for the first time last Monday. The regular diamond was too soft for use, but a temporary one was laid out in the outfield. Link, Chaplin, and Thompson appeared to be the most likely first-string men on the pitching staff, and Claire, Dowd, and Rutherford, promising substitutes. Douglas showed best behind the bat, while Purves, Gordon, and Currie proved such able seconds, that it is considered possible that Driggs may be used at short or in the outfield instead of at backstop...
...players of considerable ability will be eligible next year. They are F. C. Diamond, uC., and E. E. Lucas '19, Diamond, who has had considerable experience on teams abroad, was unable to play this fall on account of the one-year residence rule. He is very accurate in shooting for goal, a department of the game which the 1915 team was sadly ignorant of. Lucas, the captain of the Freshman team, is a steady player and ought to fill in at one of the halfback positions...
...right hand side of the diamond is cared for by two of the best players who ever represented the University. Captain Nash is a hard hitter and clever fielder; G. E. Abbot '17 at second is a master of the pivot work around the keystone station, and while not rated a heavy hitter, is a difficult man to pitch to and fast on the bases. Both these men possess the "baseball brains" without which mere mechanical perfection of execution is often valueless...
There was an encouraging increase in the number of candidates for the cross-country teams yesterday and Coach Shrubb took the University squad for a five-mile run over the cemetery course ending up by circling about the baseball diamond. The Freshmen followed the University runners, while the second squad went more easily over the two-mile course...