The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-26
Will Yale Secure Professional To
 Coach Pitchers?
Capt. Merritt of Varsity Nine Said to be Considering
 Matter

Whether or not professional!
 Junction with Head Coach Frank
 Quinn by, to coach the pitchers of the
 Yale baseball team, alone, is a ques-
 ton Captain Dick Merritt when ask
 ed about the matter said that no
 move had been made. Billy. Lush,
 who was the professional coach for
 six years, had the assistance of Frank
 McPartlin, the former. Eastern and Connecticut league pitcher. Although
 the graduate coaching system has
 been adopted in every sport at Yale
 but in hockey it is interpreted by some of the captains that the head coach shall be a graduate and that no coaching shall be done by profession als.
 Before Yale closed for its Christ mas vacation Captain Dick Merritt, of the baseball nine. told the candidates that the first squad to report for Win ter practice would be called out as
 soon as the term began, and that practice will be continuous till Com mencement in June. The battery candidates will get the first of the in door try-outs. They will work two or three afternoons a week on the gym naSium main floor, which has the ad- vantage of a large skylight for its H. lumination.
 
 new cage. The scheme fer it's erec- tion has been put under foot by Cap tain Merritt and Frank Qulmby, the , resident coach, who has been installed as the head of the new coaching re-
 gime. They have undertaken the task of raising the cash for the cage and more than half has been subscribed. The building is assured and vigorous canvass is being made to raise the remainder of the fund for the struc- ture. Some tentative plans have been drawn and indications are that ground will be broken for the cage next spring. It will not be available for any practice the coming season. Yale's historic cage has tumb1ed to pieces and the loan of the main floor of the gymnasium has been resorted to at the expense of driving scores of undergradu from the gymnasium, who wish to use it for general condi- tion exercises, to allow the battery candidates to work out several after
 noons a week.
 There seems no reason why Captain Merritt should not engage big league pitcher to drill the pitchers in
 the cage for a few weeks this winter if he wishes. Yale's outlook at the
 beginning of last season was so promising and. thss final games were
 So inferior in teehndcaf playing that 9 forecast the coming season is hazard. ous. Yale has, however, four pitch CTS, of fully as high a caliber as any nine boasted in years. R. c. Brown, the former Andover and later Univer- sity of Virginia pitcher, heads the list in point of record. Brown pitched the 1 to 1, Il inning game for Vir- ginia against Harvard two years ago. Last fall he was ineligible to play at Yale but he should prove the hines mainstay in the box this season. Buster Brown, the freshman pitcher last season, looks as promis- ing as any of Yales class twfrlers in recent years, and the two best varsity box men of last season, Scott and Hartwell, are still available. So far the two varsity catchers, Burdett and Carhart; the veteran first baseman, Jim Reilly. Captain Merritt, third baseman, and McGhie, Allen and ScO- field of last years team. A com plete new outfield and a second base
 man and shortstop must be found.