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...University and Freshman baseball squads put in a hard afternoon's practice on Soldiers Field yesterday. Coach Sexton divided the men into two teams, A and B, mixing in the Freshmen with the University candidates as was done on Thursday. These two teams played a six-inning game, each side scoring six runs...
...game, the men were divided into four teams, playing on both the University and Freshman diamonds, University men and Freshman practicing together. Five innings of ragged play satisfied the coaches, and then R. B. Frye '15, last year's Freshman pitcher, was put in the box. Coach Sexton and Captain Wingate picked as good a team as could be made up from the material at hand and several more innings were played. Frye pitched well for this stage of the season, holding his opponents to a no-run score...
About fifty men from the three upper classes reported yesterday afternoon for University practice. The men were taken out under Coach Sexton's direction and after a little limbering up were divided into two teams and a regular nine-inning game was played. Throughout the fall this general plan, which proved so beneficial last year will be followed. Two teams as nearly equal as possible in strength will be picked, and will be given their training in playing against one another with Dr. Sexton coaching...
...practice will follow closely alone the lines of that held last year, continuing until sometime around November first, a period of about six weeks. Dr. Sexton, who has coached the team for the past two years, will again be in charge, and will be assisted by Captain Wingate. Men from the three upper classes only are expected to report...
Below are printed the official batting averages for the University baseball team of last spring. Both individual and team figures show a falling off from those of the previous year; but are still far ahead of those made in the years immediately preceding Dr. Sexton's advent as head coach...