Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-20
Yale =. Men % Now Getting
,First Outdoor Practice.
Team In Shape for Opening
!: Game q Week Hence.
nsss Fnnrr souihsn Practice Fields and
All About Tho Players.

New Haven. March I3.-Yale baScDali
players are getting their first outdoor
ptactice of the season and are round
ing into shape for their opening game
az the season here In a week. Captain
frank O'Brien and Head Coach Billy
LUSH have had only a Varsity squad
Of about 20 men at work. but they Will
increase the size of the bunch as soon
- the work on the diamond ia regular
II assured. Last year the team had 10
cancel all it's preliminary home games
before it's Easter trip and it went Sohtn
with only two days practice. Inis
year indications are that the team Will
have a weeks practice at home before
the first schedule game and that every
trip, which begins April II. will De
played.
The Varsity squad now includes the
regulars of last years nine and a hand
full of the most promising members OF
the freshman class. There are six OF
the champion nine OF last season VINO
will trot TO their places in the opening
game, leaving only drst oascman
and a left and center fielder to be pro-
duced from the new material
Yale's mainstay in the box this year
will again be Fielding Jackson. whose
effectiveness landed Yale the cham
pionship last season. Yale suffers
loss in the decision OF Graham Bell not
to pitch this year. Bell was a left-hand-
er with a whirlwind ball when he was
in shape, hut he has law course 40
exacting that he has decided not to
play ball this season. Howard Jones.
the football end rush and crack Exeter
~ of Toe cppnq tho nest
man among the new material. Parsons
OF Lawrenceville school. Rose, DUNBAR
and Pratt are the other men now on
the Varsity squad as boxinen.
Yale will start the season we'll salts
ned with the showing OF Chaplin, last
years catcher. Erwin will be his lead
Ing understudy as last year. Rand. the
former University of Chicago backstop
comes to Yale with big reputation
but he has been i'll for two or three
weeks and has not done much yet.
The winner of Captain Bowman's
former place at first will not be dccid
ed till after the season is well along
for there are several promising candi-
dates. 1t IL likely that in the opening
game Tad Jones, the football quarter
back and former Exeter catcher. vii
be used. Ed Taylor. the Andover righ
fielder Of last season. will also DO tricc
there. The plan of giving Erwin nn6
Rand a try-out there has been dis
cussed also.
The veteran Camp will begin tho yea
on second base He plays with hcav,
handicap in the shape of poor eyesigh
and the necessity Of wearing glasses con
tinually. Church. substitute infielder las
year, and Williams. the Andover thirt
baseman last season, will make the com
petition warm for Camp throughout TIN
season.
CAPTAIN O'Brien will be found for hi
fourth and last season at shortstop. an'
Yale men look upon him rs surely mag
netic captain as we'll as brilliant individ
ual player OBrien is a hard student am
always begins his baseball season thin
hut he trains up instead of down, and III
will be nearly 10 pounds heavier after tn
season Is well under way than he Is now
Captain OBrien and Coach Lush hav
shout decided to keep Kinney on thin
base. A plan was on foot to put VIII
Hams. who played that position in Ando
yer there and move Kinney over to sec
OuO, Uut hlnIl"y y WOTh On tiliTu ltSt Std
was ideal. Except for the veteran Cap
Guernsey. 1902. Yale has never had bet
ter third baseman than Kinney. Huts
kamp will be kept in right field instead o
being moved over to left or center rs wa
discussed for some time. Bruce Smith
who played right field part of last year
will start the season in center ard Mad
den. the freshman left fielder and har
hitter last year. will begin In the game
in left according to present indications
Neither of these two mon is at all sur
of his place. Mallory. an Andover out
fielder last wear. viii, push both mon har
for an outfield place. and If Tao Jono
holds first base Taylor will go back I
the outfeid
The other new stars on the 'Varst
SQUAD are Brooks. who was second has,
man on the Hotchkiss School last yea
and Bcgg. a third baseman from Have,
ford. II they do not win a place IN til
Yale infield. and their only chance seen
TO be at second base. they will be trie
for outfeld.
The best batters will win the two y;
cant outfield places. Yales likely liueu
therefore. in the early games of the Sc;
son 10:
Pitchers. Jackson and II. Jones: cstcl
er. Chaplin: first base. T. Jones and Ia,
lor; second base. Camp: third base. Wi
Hams: shortstop. o Brien: left field. Ma,
den: center field. Smith; right field Hui
kamp.
~"Yaie's training table will be start,
much later than usual. or not till aft
The playing schedule is well under way.
FIRST PRACTICE.
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