Arizona republican., 1901-03-15
VALE ATHLETES BUSY.
AN Teams at the New Haven College
 Now Taking Active Work.

Every Yale athletic team is now at work The full varsity squad of the baseball team. called out yesterday to begin its cage training, numbers only fifteen men. but all are veterans of for mer varsity squads or are members of class squads of former years. At pres ent the coaching of the nine is in .he hands If Capt. Robertson
 He will be regularly assisted by Les lie M Johnston. who has pitched for two years in the Connecticut state league. Johnston Is now pitching to the batters in the cage anu coaching the batters and fieldsmen in their indoor work. He will also continue as coach, accompanying the ream on their east CT trip and remaining with it until May l. when Dr. Wm. H. Murphy. captain of the Yale aine in 'g2 and a member of the New York National league team in '94 will leave Leland Stanford univer- sity, where he is now head coach and take charge of the Yale team. From May to the end of the season Dr. Mur- phy will be head coach. but Johnston will continue 60 assist in pitching to the batsmen and for general coaching.
 A SECOND VARSITY NINE.
 One of the features of the season at
 Yale will be the presence throughout the season of a second varsity nine. Ihis experiment was started last year in q small way and proved successful. It gave the regulars Pop" Hirsh for catcher after Sullivan and Cunha, the veterans. were found unable to finish the season. It kept on the march of im- provement several prominent player-. who will be leading candidates for the regulars this year.
 The second varsity team will be con- trolled by the general university man. agement throughout the season. Games are being arranged with all the minor colleges of New England. Yale men are keenly disappointed that the plan of having a game between the Yale and Harvard second hines has fallen through. The Yale challenge was ac- cepted and t'he Harvard management appeared eager to play the proposed game, but the Harvard faculty vetoed the proposition and the game will not be played.
 Edgar Atkin has been appointed head coach of the Yale freshmen nine for the coming season. He was a member of the Yale varsity squad two years ago and was last year director of athletics In Smith academy. St. Louis. He has returned to Yale in the law department.
 VARSITY CREWS PRACTICE.
 The three varsity crews have been rowing on the harbor for three days. There is a great deal of floating ice in the channel and only the shortest spins are possible. A new barge has been built for fhe varsity by John keast. who was for years Yale's boat builder and rigger. The present sys- tenn of crew training looks radically | different from that of former years. be- cause of the fact that no former oars- men are back to take charge of the | work. The coaching is. however. done | by John A. Kennedy, the former pro- fessional oarsman. Fred Allen, last ' years captain. will not arrive until | May l, but will then remain with the | until the season closes. The date of the spring regetta has been de- cided upon as May 1S A change has been made in the date for the race be- tween nhe Yale second varsity crew and the Annapolis naval academy eight. They will meet on May instead of May II. as formerly planned
 Practically no changes have been made in the order Of the first varsity eight. It has been composed as follows Tor the past two weeks
 Stroke, Cameron; No. :, Capt. Blag- len; No. 6. Kunzig; No. 5, Johnson: No. 4, Rogue: No. 3, Schley; No. 2, Scott; bow, Mitchell. Coach KenHedy says that he expects that the candf- lates have now left the rowing tank n the gymnasium permanently. He 1as laid plans for continuous system ,f outdoor work. Capt. Blagden said oday that the first two varsity crews would be kept here during the greater part of the Easter vacation.-Mail and Cypress.