The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-27
PRINCETON FOOTBALL CANDIDATES HAVE FIRST
PRACTISE; CREWS ARE SHOWING MUCH PROMISE
Athletics at Old Nassau Are
BOoming-Heyniger Is to
Pitch Big Games.
BY c. DEAN.

81 ~ OLhlNs
Especial Correspondence of the Evening start
PRINCETON, April 27.-Spring foot
ball practise at Princeton has been be-
gun under the direction of ]. b. McCor-
mick, who was captain of the 1907
eleven. Many of the candidates for the
1903 team have beer unable to report,
however. for the daily drill. owing to
the act that they have been occupied
with other athletic sports, such as base
ball. track and rowing.
Getting a Line ON Them.
The object of the spring gridiron work
is to get a line or the men for next fall
and give them individual instruction as
to training during the summer months
preceding the beginning of the real
work in September. AS an Involvement
for the candidates. several cups have
been offered for contests to be held in
the neal future in which proficiency in
drop-kicking, punting, running in foot
ball toys, will be considered.
Baseball Interferes.
Captain Eddie Dillon. of the football
team, has been unable to take part in
the football practise. as he is playing
second base on the varsity baseball
nine.
A number of the freshman football
team are also playing baseball so that
the spring practise is lacking many of
the star players.
Rowing Season On.
The main event of the past week in
Princeton has been the beginning of
the rowing season. With pleasant
weather and the lake in as good a con-
dition as any rowing course in the
country, eight-oared shells have been
launched for the first time on Carnegie
Lake and every day about a hundred
candidates are to be seen at work I'M
der Coach Titus for the big inter-class
regatta to be held on June 5, the day
preceding the annual Ya~le-Princeton
baseball clash.
Coach Titus Busy.
Coach Titus has many tyros on hand
and has made use of several rowing
boxes along the shore of the lake near
the new boathouse. Here he has be-
gun to teach. the new ones the science
of handling I'll sweeps. These men,
who were members of the class crews
which met in the fall regatta last No
vember, have started in the Fights, and
with them have been placed some OF
the more promising tyros, some of
whom have a considerable knowledge
of rowing from the athletic club crews
on which they rowed last summer
Many men who took up rowing for the
first time last spring, when CoacE
Titus INTRODUCED the sport here, became
very proficient in the art through theil
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crews.
The baseball Team.
The baseball team has been DOING
only fairly well. Although no games
have been lost since the first Virginia
contest on the Southern trip-whicf
was retrieved in a decisive victory a
few days later-still the work of the
squad has been unsatisfactory and
ragged. In the game with Lafayette
IN Wednesday it was particularly no
ticeable, for through infield errors and
loose play the Easton, Pa, boys secured
a lead of fly runs over the Tigers In
the fourth inning, the score being Z to
9. Princeton woke up and played good
ball. Clark, who had relieved Drewes,
pitched wonderful ball, and the whole
team rallied as a man. The result was
that consistent hitting soon tied the
score, and clever bunting won the
game in the ninth, the final score be
ing 8 to Z in favor of the Jerseymen.
PrincetOn's star Boxman.
Heyniger pitched Princeton to VIC
tory twice against Harvard, twice
against Yale and once against Penn
%sylvania. He will undoubtedly be called
on to twirl against Cornell this season
and against Penn. Either Clark or
Drewes had been expected to do the
stunts in the box. Clark is a good
pitcher in spots. When he is in good
form he is as reliable as Heyniger, but
he Is not a surety at any time. He
will, however, be put in against Penn
or n of the other big Six who are
not so formidable on the diamond, Hey
niger being reserved for the sturdier
foemen. The first CORNELL Princeton
game will be played at Ithaca on Sat-
urday, May 2.