New Britain herald., 1914-04-06
YALE EXPECTS TO
 CLEAN UP SOUTH
Starts "Wednesday With Biz M-
 c,tus of Veterans on SQlad.

New Haven, April 6.--The Yale varsity baseball team will leave New Haven on Wednesday afternoon for she annual southern trip during the Easter recess. The team will return to New Haven April 16. The sched- lle; Of games to be played on the trip Is as follows: April 9, Norfolk Base ball club, at Norfolk; April 10, Mt. ft. Joseph,s college. at Norfolk; April II, University of Virginia, at Nor- folk; April IS, University of Virginia, Ut Charlottesville; April IA, Catholic university, at Norfolk. The opening game of the season in New Haven will be played with Columbia on April 22.
 It will be noted that this schedule omits the University of Georgetown, which team Yale has for many years met during the Easter vacation. The schedule was arranged this year SC that the men would not do so much travelling as in former years and also in the hope that the team will find better weather conditions at Norfolk than anywhere else. 1, Thus far the team has scarcely been out of the cage. Two weeks ago the players only got onto the diamond for two days. and last week they also lost about half of the week for two days, and this week they also lost about half of the week on account of bad weather. Coach Quinby expects to use the trip to Norfolk as the first real outdoor practice of the season, and hopes while there to get the team in condition for the opening games here in New Haven
 Captain Blossom has selected twen- ty players for the southern trip. The list is as follows: w. Hunter, Shear, Nudge, Gile. Brown, R. Stevens, Way, Handy, Hovel, Swinart, Cornish, Harpham, Loman, Blossom, Goodel, Reilly, Falsey. Hanes, Vaughn, l.. Mid- dlebrook. Heed Coach Quinby will take with him Walter Mace as trainer.
 Yale has not had such a team of veterans on the diamond in years. Of last years team only Ridell, at first base; Scofield, at left field, and Bur dette, behind the bat, have been lost. As Hunter, who was Burdettes rival for catcher last season, is still in col lege and as many considered Hunter better man at backstop last season than Burdette was, this loss cannot be termed serious one. sRidell. at first base, and Scofield in the outfield will, of course. be missed. And at present there are no men in sight to take their places. All the other po- sitions on the field, however, are filled by veterans.
 Swihart, captain of the basketball team, is just at present the leading candidate for first base. Hoover. of last years freshman team. is making a fight for this position, but has not been selected for the southern trip. Just before the scarlet fever epidemic broke out at. Yale, Pumpelly was brought in from the outfield and nut on the first base. He was doing good work at this position, and may finallx land in this place. Just at present Pumpelly is in his home at Oweeo. N. r., but there seems to be good chance that he will recover from the mild attack of scarlet fever, from which he suffered, in time to join the team in New York, on April 8. First base seems to lie between Pumpelly and Swihart, with the chances prob ably in favor, of Pumpelly, owing to his experience on the team last sea-. son.
 Cornish, who played second base last year, is again a candidate for this position and will undoubtedly be first choice at the opening of the season at least. He will probably have rival this year in Harpham, who was making good at this position last sea- son when he injured his knee and had to give up the game
 At third base, John Reilly is, of course, the one only candidate. He is as good a man as Yale has had at third in long time, and the same Is true of Captain Blossom at short stop.