New-York tribune., 1910-02-06
COY OUT FOR NINE
PITCHING GOOD BALL.
Yale Team to Begin Training
Under Lush on February 22.
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New Haven, Feb. 5-Captain Steve Phil
bin of the Yale baseball nine has issued
orders for training to begin February %.
He will have q pitching coach here next
week, it is expected, and Billy Lush, the
general coach, will arrive February q
Captain PhlbIn will run the candidates till
Lush arrives. The latter is now at An
napoIis handling the basketball team for
the Naval Academy five, which has won the
championship of the South.
Yale's baseball outlook is good, pro-
vided one or two strong pitchers can be de
veloped from promising, although inexpert-
eaced material. Captain Philbin has been
in charge of the battery squad. which was
called out two weeks ago 1t has been
drilled three or four afternoons week in
the gymnasium. and four promising pitch
ers, who, however. lack intercollegiate ex-
perience. are working out in good style
Tommers, left handler, who vas in the
box for the freshmen two years ago, Is the
best of the quartet. Through some faculty
restriction last season he Gid mot report,
but he seems likely to be Yale's mainstay
during the coming heason in the box.
The most picturesque of the candidates
is Ted Coy who has been prominent in
more branches of sport at Yale than any
other athlete in the university. Coy has
been called by Walter Camp the greatest
football player who ever lived, and he has
won his "Y'' in intercollegiate track COM
petition as high jumper. He is q fine
oarsn1an, and could win place on the
varsity crew If he could give time to the
sport. He is also one of the best lawn
tennis players in college. He is eager TO
win his university letter on the diamond,
and has begun to train with the baseball
pitchers.
Coy throws. perhaps, the most effective
balls Of any of the squads Last year
he was developed by Edward Walsh, the
Chicago American League pitcher who
coached the Yale twirlers, but he quit
baseball for track athletics. Walsh pro
nounced his 'spitbaIl' the best Of those
of all the pitchers on the Yale squad. This
year it lis stronger and more formidable
than ever and he has it under the best Of
control What he will do under the pro
fessional coaching for the pitching squad,
which begins next week, is an interesting
question.
Brinsmade, the main pitcher for the
freshman nine last year, a six footer with
plenty of speed and dash. and Buck"
Freeman, pitcher for the second nine last
year, are other promising twirlers.
Jack Field and Ted Lillfy. football stars,
are now working with the battery candt-
dates on the catching squad Both will be
transferred to the first base candidates as
soon as outdoor work begins. Jefferson,
first base guardian last season. has been
graduated, and Field and Lilley are the
leading candidates for the job of covering
the initial sack. Both are fast fielders and
the position will so to the one who proves
the stronger batsman.
Captain Philbn will do the major part
OF the catching. Paul Badger, who was
second baseman last year, will be sub
stitute catcher and will again try for an
infield position.
The certainty of Easter trip to the
South which the faculty declined two
weeks ago to grant, is hailed with glee
bv the baseball men. Their games Will
nearly all be in Norfolk. and they will
meet chiefly professional instead of college
teams, because the schedule had 10 be hur-
riedly arranged the last fortnight.