Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-01
'DOPE"O ON
 COLLEGE MINES
Yale Prospects Best With Last Years Team Intact, But Harvard and Other Colleges
 Are Noted Contenders

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Practice for the college and university baseball squads of the east is we'll under way and before the mcnth of March has run Its course the first games of the season will have been played provided indictment weather does not balk the schedule makers. As a result of the indoor training to date some idea of relative strength of the larger insti- tuition hines is available and the coaches are already predicting some close series in the play for inter. collegiate hcnors. Chief attention cen. ters cn the Yale prospects at pres. ent, owing to the remarkable record achieved by the New Haven team last spring.
 With near two exceptions the Yale teams cf 1913. which wen 2s games out of 34 played. is intact The loss of Riddeil at first base leaves gap in the inheld, but wth the string of sub. stitutes and last years freshman team available this position should be filed without trouble. Another vacant position Is that of Schofeld, left fielder. In these two positions | Yale Is weakest All the other mem bers of the team are in college Cap tain Blossom at short. Cornish at sec. ong, and Reilly at third base form enc of the very best infields of any college team this seson. Midilebrook ! all fgtt .f for and light field, respectively The vet eran pitchers are Gile and Brown. | 10th of whom can be counted on to equal the good work done last year. Hunter will be the mainstay behind the bat.
 The Harvard team, which had the distinction of winning the only series that Yale lost last season. will take the field this spring with almost as many veterans available as the Blue But three regulars were lost by grad uation last year. In the pitching de pertinent Frye nd Iltchcock ! rm the nucleus of an effective pitching stff. In addition Boyle. Macdonald and Whitney are als promising pitch ing candidates. The position of catch CT. left vacant by the graduation of Young, will be filled by either Os. borne, Waterman CT Walice.
 Ayres will probbly retain his posi- tion at first base. although Nash, cer' tain of last years freshman team is a likely candidate, but Coach Sax ton may decide to place Nash in the outfield in Alsop's place. Clark will be at second, unless it Is deemed nee essary to use him behind the bat h that case Harvey, Phillips and Frippt | will be the contestants fer the posi- tion. Captain Wingate will remain st shortstop. At third base. one of thc candidates mentioned for second il
 likely to fill the gap left by the grad
 uation of Tones. Gannett she uld re
 tain his position in right field aL'
 Iardwick take care of center field
 A number of new men will comps'
 for the left field position, the nor promising being Nash, Curtis and Nil holland
 The Harvard 1914 team will be hard hitting organization judgini from the averages of the men las year especially in the championshi games Nest of last years freshmen who are trying for positions this yea were good batters so that the tean
 should in no way suffer from the ad dition of these men to the ranks. At Princeton seven members of tn 1913 nine are eligible fer position
 this spring. They are Wall, catcher Wood and Copeland, pitchers; Car tain Rhcais, first base; CHI, secon'
 base Green and Laird outhelders \ Wood and Copeland were the malnsta of the pitching stan last season. Fron
 last years freshman nine Lamberton Oeye ard Link are expected to d.