The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-30

Don't forget the A. and NJ. College
and Bingham School game at the A. and
NJ. Athletic Grounds ON Easter Monday.
90 ont and see a good game. 1t begins
at $3.50.
Princeton's baseball team viii start on
its annual Southern BASEBALL trip to-day
and will return April 6, after playing five
games. The first game will take place
March 30 with Johns Hopkins at Balti-
more. from where the team will 20 to
Washington TO meet Georgetown's team
in two games. April l and 3. Two
games with the University Of Virginia
ait Charlottesville ON April and ; win
complete the schedule OF the team while
South.
The Cornell baseball team, which is
now III this State. on a practice tour of
| the South, was coached by Hugh .Icn-
nings, of the Brooklyni League team.
Jennings has great faith in the team
He says it is going to surprise some of
the mines which have formerly found
Cornell RATHER mark.
Fourteen of the candidates for posi-
tons on the regular team have been
taken on the Southern trip. The spring
vacation Will be spent south of Penn
sylvania. the schedule calling for eight
games with the principal Southern col
lege. Cornell is in unison with other
Eastern colleges in her endeavor to
Danish the traditional practice games
| against professional teams. The card
as far as arranged confines itself to anna
teur teams.
Jennings will remain with the Cor
nelians throughout their trip and start
them on the path of the regular season
before h leaves for his professional
work In the course of the season the
Cornell nine will do more travelling thaa
some authorities will allow as good for
an amateur team. Michigan will be
played at Ann Arhor and Detroit, Penn
sylvania at Philadelphia. Princeton at
Princeton, West Point on the Hudson.
Harvard at Cambridge and Brown at
Providence.
Charles V. L. Young is pitching this
year. His name as, known in both foot
ball and baseball circles carries an as.
surance Of swift playing. He is to be
assisted by Bole, who has proved any
thing hut a failure i'll the three seasons
he has occupied the box for Cornell.
Captain Murtagh occupies his usual
place on first. and Genger on short
The others who are with the team now
are Mitchell Sanders. Smith, Dough-
terry. Strelin. Robertson, Newton. Cross
and Johnson.
Manager Selee. of the Boston club.
now at Durham, doesn't believe in
gymnasium work at all, claiming that it
gives hard, knotty muscles, so when the
weather permits he takes the members
of the Boston aggregation out for jog
over the roads.
Selee claims that the proper way %
train a baseball team is by giving mem
bers outdoor exercise. Although the
gymnasium and swimming baths of
Trinity college have been placed ut the
disposal of the players they have satisfied
themselves with their outdoor exercise
and rub downs at the hotel.
| In their practice games so far the men
| are paying more attention to their arms
| than they are to winning the game.
| Captain Duffy is persistent in his idea
| that batting is what the players need
the most practice in, and from now until
| they begin play, April IL, with Brooklyn,
they will be kept whanging the ball at
every possible opportunity.