Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-16
BASEBALL AT HOLY CROSS.
Joseph Brennan of This City to Be
 Tried Out as Pitcher.

 Joseph Brennan of This City to Be
 Tried Out as Pitcher.
 If the number of candidates which rasnonded to the call of Captain Dyer and Manager Kelly can pc taken as q criterion, the base ball team ol lhols Cross college will be douply success full during the season of l9OZ. MOI day evening at the college gy yHinasluili over forty candidates presented thein7 selves as aspirahts for. positions on tue nine and consequently the dearth ol material will occasion no thought to the coach; it will be the task of choos- ing the best from so fine materlal. Perhaps the number of. candidates has never been equalled i'll years DeIore' but at any rate the anticipation or tue enthusiasm has never been keener so long before the opening of atseason.
 Last year the Holy Cross team had to begin the season minus most or US veteran players, and for the most part was compelled to play an entirely new team. This was owing to the fact that several players had graduated the June previous and a couple of the best were not permitted to play owing to charges of professionalism. Despite this fact the team won a credltaDle number of victories and enjoyed the satisfaction of knowing that a pure college nine was representing Holy Cross. while the same could not be said of many of the other colleges.
 This season all things seem favora- ble. All the players of last years team are back at college with the exception of two, and it is estimated that 1t will be possible to fill their positions. Noo nan behind the bat, Coakley and Noone in the box, Connor at first, Dyer at short, and Baldwin, AIcKeon and Skelly in the field, are ready to report. But the personnel of the nine is in doubt. It is just possible that several of the new men may outplay the old ones for their positions. There are several players from other colleges who have more or less of a reputation and are versed in more than the rudi- ments of the game. There are. for in- stance, twelve candidates for the pitch ing department, and the competition will be so great that the most valuable men will be secured. Among those who will try for the team is Joseph Brennan of Waterbury, a brother of Shorty Brennan, and an amateur of considerable merit.
 This will be the first time in years that q Waterbury student has had a prominent place on the Holy Cross team. "Bill' Fox worthily represent ed her for many seasons along with
 shorty Brennan. Last year the lat ter coached the nine, but at the pres ent time he is at Georgetown. Pap- palau, an old Holy Cross player of the seasons of '96-'97, will take his place. He is pitcher on the Worcester team or the Eastern league and will be of service in rounding out the team when he has definitely decided on men for the positions.
 From now until February 1 the squad will be put through light train ing in the gymnasium for an hour each afternoon as a preparation for more earnest work In February after ina examinations have been finished. inc candidates will be taken to inc caoa and practice will be begun. From then until Easter the. players will no+ he permitted to go to town, but will be oDlged to practice each holiday after noon and to also remain at the college uurlng the Easter recess, and then by the time that season opens it is honed that a team properly trained will be ready to render a good account of itself. It is a long time since Holy cross has been second to any of the colleges or the universities in the base pail line. and this season great things are expected. The student body is ambitious to have the representatives II0 fa
 rom Harvard, as there was m game played between Holy Cross and liar. yard last year for a number of req sons It was hoped that Yale would honor the field at Mt St James this season also, but after consenting her management turned about and insisted on playing in New Haven. Waterbury people may be more interested in hear ing this fact than if Yale were to play Ill Worcester, as she always sends n generous delegation to New Haven to cheer for the Purple Those support CTS may reasonably feel sure of seeing an interesting game April 26.
 The schedule this year is an excep- tlonally good. one. The Purple team
 will meet the best college hines in the country on the base ball field. The scheduie, which, by the way, is the nrst Holy Cross schedule that has ap- peared in print this season is as fol. lows:
 April 3, Trinity, at home; 12, Tufts. at home; Is, Wesleyan, abroad: 19 Brown, at home; g, Bates. at home: 70, Fordham. at home; 26, Yale. abroad; 30 Tufts, abroad.
 May 5, Syracuse, at home; z, open: 10, Harvard, at home; IA, Andover abroad; II. Fordham, abroad q, Wes- leyan, at home; 24, Harvard, abroad; 2s, Georgetown, at home; %, Cornell at home; 30, Dartmouth, at home; 31, Brown, at home.
 June 2, Dartmouth, abroad; 4, open; [, Brown, abroad: H. Amherst, abroad; 14, open; 16, University of Pennsyl- vania, at home.-Holy Cross Sport.