Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Owing to the unfavorable weather recently, the Freshman baseball squad, now numbering 21 men, has not made much advancement. There is material for a good team, but the practice is still sluggish and inaccurate. Two teams played a scrub game yesterday, coached by N. S. Bartlett '03. O. G. Frantz '03 will take charge of the squad early next week...
...University baseball squad held its first practice on the regular diamond yesterday. The work consisted almost entirely of a game between two scrub teams. The men found little difficulty in hitting the slow pitching of Castle and Taylor, but their work as a whole lacked steadiness. The infielders played a hard, fast game and showed considerable improvement over their work in the cage. The high wind, however proved very injurious to accurate playing on the part of the outfielders. The practice was directed solely by B. Wendell...
...Joseph Leiter '91 has continued this year his donation for the scrub baseball cups, known as the Leiter cups. In repeating this donation, a wish is expressed that the old teams be recorganized as far as possible under the same names and that the cups be competed for on practically the same conditions as in previous years. A special effort, however, will be made this year to have each team bona fide and not, as has sometimes happened, a mere collection of names with only a few actual players. If this is carried out, there will be little difficulty...
...Freshman practice included batting work at the nets, and a scrub game in which nearly the whole squad was tried out. The batting was very poor, which the fielding and base-running were marred by a general tendency of the men to become confused...
...practice of the University baseball squad yesterday consisted mainly of a long scrub game between two picked teams, but there was no effort to make large scores. Furthermore, almost every man on the squad was tried in the game, so that no true comparison of the two teams could be made. The playing was lively throughout, and, with some exceptions, remarkably good for so early in the season. In the batting, especially, the men showed marked improvement, and were more or less successful in acquiring the form which the coaches have been teaching them. Moreover, both the out fielding...