The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-06
ST.. LOUIS BOYS
AT PRINCETON.
S~teinwender and Meier Are
Two Of the Four Baseball
Veterans Left the Tigers.

There has been a IulI in college athletics
during the holidays. but with the opening
OF the next term there will be a general
revival. as the captains Of the various
teams at the different universities will is
sue calls at once for candidates TO report
for preliminary practice. The baseball. crew
and track and field men will begin work.
while the hockey, water polo and gymnastic
teams will be in active training. Since the
close OF the football season the captains
and managers have Rad time enough to
lock over the prospects and lay out their
plans for the coming campaigns. There will
be plenty OF hard indoor work before the
men can get out in the open, but this pre-
urinary practice is now considered essen
tial. and. while II is the most irksome Of
the long weeks OF training. the candidates
cannot afford to shirk. as much depends
on the advancement made in that time
when II comes TO assigning the coveted
places
Preparataion for the coming baseball sea-
son IS already quite advanced at Princeton,
and the management has a fair line on the
prospects for the season of 1901. With the
exception OF the regular Harvard series.
which will not be played this coming spring.
the Tigers' schedUl will be almost the
same a. In 1900. Princeton has not yet de-
cided what other team or teams will fill
the Harvard gap, but games with the Uni
verSity of Pennsylvania, University Of I'LL
nois. Michigan and Chicago are among the
possibilities to take the place of the Har-
ward series.
The action Of the university baseball man.
agement In the recent Princeton-Harvard
affair meets with the strongest concurrence
OF the undergraduates. but 1t is felt that
the breach with the Cambridge College will
result in the lack of practice games for
Princeton for probably two or three years.
The trouble has been brewing for some
years back. The Interpretation Of Princeton
H. that Harvard's prestige is more secure
in not meeting her. as only one game wcn
az baseball IN nine years graces the Grim
son record. The cage work of the baseball
squad will begin early in January. 1t is
likely that Clarke of the Boston National
League team Will again train the team in
their preliminary work, and Jerry Bradley,
the famous Princeton player. will handle
the nine after the season opens on the
diamond. The prospects for a strong team
are not particularly bright. as the loss OF
the star battery-Hillebrand and Kafer-
will be hard to replace. Hutchinson, too,
the clever third bassman. and the best man
in the infieid. will not be back. Only four
cid varsity players are left as a nucleus
for next seasons nine. They are: Green.
catcher; Pierson. first base: Billy Stein
ghortstop. Hillebrand has n brother in the
freshman class. who seems to be a natural
hall player, and II IL thought he will make
ths team.
Final arrangements are made for n GYM
nastic meet between Columbia and Am
herst. to take place during the last Of Feb
ruary or the beginning OF March. The
meet will he held at Amherst. A team will
be picked early in the New Year
by Captain Easten and Bogus. the in
strictor, from the following candidates.:
Swarb. Earle. Smallwood. z. Ward, e.
Ward. West. Shaw. Schuster, Van Beerein.
Blakely. Savage, Benjamin. Osborne. Sell
ba,.- nn March = nv ~ tho fnN.VnaTFnorasa
gymnasium match will take place at Phil
adeIphia. The hall has not been decided
upon. All the prominent colleges OF the
Yale, Harvard. Amherst. Columbia and
Rutgers. A dual meet will be held with
Yale on March J. An exhibition will be
given on February Is at Haverford. The
managers of the team are also making ar
r~angements for a meet with Rutgers, to be