Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the advent of A. W. Samborski '25 at the end of last week, the battery staff is now complete with six pitchers and four catchers. Both the basemen and outfielders were put through a batting and fielding drill yesterday followed by running practice for the whole squad. Although all the work was held on the Freshman diamond, another balmy day should put the first team field in shape...
...President Coolidge continues to abide by his recent decision to withhold for the money "authorized by Congress for the National Guard drill pay, it will amount to as dishonourable an act on the part of the Government as that of a father refusing to pay his small son for doing chores, after he had agreed on a set price...
...national defense act prescribes for the Guard one drill a week and says that the men shall be paid for it. Commissioned officers, as a consequence of the President's action, will be placed in a highly embarrassing position with their men, for they promised the latter in good faith at the time they enlisted that they would be paid. Similarly, if the pay is withheld and the enlisted men refuse to appear at authorized drills, it will be the duty of these officers to prosecute them according to military...
...main purpose of the preliminary work is to get the squad into first class physical condition by the time formal practice under Coach Fisher starts on April 27. In addition to the still unnamed game of Major Moore's invention, the practice at present will consist of kicking drill...
...only will kicking and passing and drill in the fundamentals be stressed, but individual attention will be featured. Coach Fisher expects to have more assistants than ever before. As a result, be will be able to try out plans never before feasible...