Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-02
THE BASE BALL SQUAD.
DAVE LUTZ HARD AT WORK ON
THE MILDLY TEAM.
The Development Of a Strong Pitching
Staff a Great Task For The
NaYy's Coach.

Dave Fultz, who is coaching the base
BALL squad at the Naval Academy
this season. has the task of turning
out team from a squad composed
in the main of players with little eN-
perience in match games. However.
he has a willing lot of fellows 10 work
with and there is no doubt that a
creditable nine will he put on the
field.
There has peen little change in the
Navy nine for three seasons back aud
this proved discouraging TO new men,
but the veterans have graduated now
aud the chances are that the new team
of colts will put more life in the
work than the old players did dur
ing the last season. The development
of strong pitching stan is the great
est task which Coach Fultz has before
him. In the present squad oply Van
Auken and I.amphire have pitched for
the Navy in match games before.
Both have done good work ut times,
but have never shown exceptional
ability. Ii is likely, however, that
they will develop with more work and
Van Auken, particularly, is expected
70 make reliable man
Harris and Meade are two fourth
classmcn who have had experience
on high school teams and will try for
the Navy team this season. II had
been hoped that Douglass. the captain'
OF next years football team, would
jump in the breach and help the team
out, as he is stroug pitcher, but
the necessity of an operation upon the
leg that be injured in football has
rendered that impossible. Dague. the
fast end, is also a pitcher. but he
will not come out for the nine this
season.
There will not be much difficulty
i'm securing capable catcher. as bofh
Hambech and stiles. both of whom
have had former experience on the
Navy nire, viii try for the position.
Other candidates are Jones and Chew
and Meyer. the football guard. one
of the catchers may be used at first
base and other candidates for this po-
sition are Hickey and Green. Bacon,
last years second baseman, is still in
the Academy, and is out for the team
again. other infield candidates are
Clark. Gillian, Byrne, Dresel and Pnr-
nell, all of whom have had experience
on the second or class teams at the
Academy or elsewhere.
An entirely new outneld viii nave
to be developed and among the most
promising candidates are Upton, a
brother of the great West Point center
of some years ago; Lange, who at
tracted attention as a football player
last season; Harris, Norfleet, Pugh
and Hughlett.
The squad originally had ninety
members, but it has already been cut
to sixty. Practice is going on every
day in the armory, in which cage
with two compartments has been cons
structed with the help of netting.
Open air practice will begin as soon
as the weather permits and about the
same time the training table will be
established. The squad which viii go
to the training table will be limited
to thirty members.
Benjamin II. Lombard, who played
third base last season, has been elect
"a captain and will fill the same po-
sition, il is expected. He will return
from sick leave shortly and in the
meantime Frederick II. Van Auken,
leading candidate for pitcher, is act
ing captain.