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...lacrosse team has begun out-door work on Holmes Field, after a long period of elementary work in the cage. The men have improved greatly in stick work, and the practice from now on will be for the perfection of team play. About twenty candidates are trying for the team and are being coached by Dr. G. B. Henshaw '90 and C. B. Wood '96. Although the season does not begin until April 28, it is probable that two practice games will be played before that date, one with a team of Harvard graduates and the other with a picked...
...University baseball squad has had no out-door practice as yet, the process of selection has gone on rather slowly in spite of the fact that the squad has been considerably reduced. No attempt will be made to pick definitely the men for the various positions until all have been thoroughly tried in outdoor practice. The work of the men, as a whole, is promising. In batting, however, there is still room for much improvement...
...competition for first base has narrowed down to Kendall and J. D. Clark. Clark is superior in batting, but Kendall's fielding is the more brilliant. Out-door work, however, will form the only true basis on which to determine the relative value...
This subject may be summed up by the statement that thirty years have practically seen the establishment of definite systems of physical training and a great improvement in the general physical welfare of students; that during this period out-door sports have, like the swing of a pendulum, carried the men from inordinate study to excessive athletic training and back again to a more sensible adjustment between such studies and sports. It is only of late years that we have begun to settle down to this reasonable adjustment. During all these years both physical training and out-door sports have...
Nothing definite in regard to the strength of the outfield can be determined until out-door work is started. The battery candidates have not been reduced as yet, but are working daily with the University batteries. They give signs of unusual promise and are undoubtedly the strongest part of the team...