The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-31
TWO STARS BARRED
Captain Harra and Williams Unable to Play on the
 N. H. H. s. Nine.
UNTIL WORK IS MADE UP
Good Showing of Candidates at First Practice at WcsNille-IIackett
 Coaches.

The first practice of the high school candidates at the Westville baseball grounds proved great success. The boys turned out In full force, furnish ing abundant material for two teams, Every candidate present was given a chance and many of them made a good showing
 Mir. Hackett was present and his coaching was of great assistance. He seemed to have his eye on every player at every moment and when an indi- vidual was taking 1t easy or playing poorly the unfortunate one was sud denly surprised by receiving either sharp reprimand or being put on the bench,
 Besides Mir. Hackett, Capt, Harra secured Mir Beecher to coach the pitchers. Mir. Beecher was member of the Edgewood and Westville nines and also an umpire in the State league. He gave the candidates out for the pitching position many important hints, MT. Beecher also umpired great part of the game played by the candidates. Grant Blakeslee showed up for prac- tice and was immediately tried at catcher It was not known until yes terday afternoon, whether Blakeslee would be allowed, by his physician to play or not.
 MT Mack, the Yale trainer, said that it woudl he all right for Blakeslee to play on the baseball team. He forbade him from running, as he thought 1t would be too much of a strain for him. By his presence on the team, the back stop position will be well taken care of. This fact was brought out strongly in yesterdays practice, for not only did Blakeslee score four runs during the game, but his judgment and back stopping was simply great He spoiled many score by nabbing the player at home plate.
 The school reports for the month will be out tomorrow and there Is a we'll | founded rumor that Capt Harra and | Williams will be debarred from play ing on account of deficiencies in studies This will prove a great blow to the team, and unless these men make up their work another tempor- ary captain will be elected, and men who are working hard will be substi- tuted in Harra's and Williams places. Manager Chandler has secured the regular Yale diamond for the high school-Yale freshman game Saturday. | The game will start promptly at 3 o'clock and a big attendance is ex- | pected.
 After little fielding practice yester- day, Capt. Harra picked two teams The teams played about seven innings at the end of which time the first team was ahead by the score of IA 10 6 Many errors were made during this game by some of the players However most of the boys tried hard and did some good work throughout the game They paid attention to the coaching and profited much by this. There arc many men out for the various posi-. tions and the choice will be a hard one Bacon tried first base, and made a ereditable showing. He will have a hard joh to come out ahead of Saxe and Flanagan, who are also out fol this position. Grodske made the best showing among the pitchers, while Me. Cormick had an off day. The line-u, of the teams was as follows:
 First Team. Second Team bldheslee .s.-..s...t........s.. lsapldes
 Catcher.
 Grodske. Harrington. Price ..........
 Mccormick. Mckay, Halleckei
 Pitcher
 Flanagan, Bacon ............... Sax,
 First base.
 Wllliams .............. Rapano, BentoI
 Second base
 Starkweather .................. Stephel , Third base. l Alderman, Geraci ............., Pagte Left field : Connolly, Burns Prendergast, Robinson ; Center field . Dunn, Carroll ............ Myer. Fraze ' Right field , HarTa, J Harrington ......... Sullivan
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