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...fielders had no practice yesterday due to the wet grounds but the battery candidates were given a stiff workout in the cage. The pitching staff has been strengthened as Philip Spalding '25 is now eligible for the mound position. Spalding was the second string twirler on the 1925 Freshman team. E. C. Herrmann, the regular pitcher of last year's Freshman team, and E. L. Brown '24, last year's second team pitcher, are as yet ineligible due to studies...
Many battery combinations have been tried by Coach Davidson in order to select the best duet and providing that most of the batters on the Huntington nine are right handed, D. G. Casto, a left-handed twirler, is likely to start the contest. Casto's previous experience consists of three years' mound work for Roxbury Latin. F. K. Nash, R. W. Puffer Jr. and P. E. Mosely are other pitching candidates who may be called upon for part of the game...
...most likely of Coach Murray's pitchers is Small, a former University of Maine twirler...
Knocking two pitchers out of the box and scoring six runs on the third twirler the University baseball team swept the Northeastern nine to a 16-1 defeat on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The 20 hits which the visiting pitchers allowed were mainly responsible for the score, but the base-runners also profited greatly from seven errors by the Northeastern fielders. The Crimson mound work, however, was not on a par with the hitting and in the second inning it looked as if the visitors would furnish a serious threat...
...Selleck last year's veteran twirler is sick in the Infirmary and was unable to accompany the team. This leaves Coxe as the only letter man on the pitching squad, but there are several other promising men, of whom Lazarus who was ineligible last year, is making the best showing...