Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-31
VIRGINIA TW|RLERs
PREPARE FOR SEASON
Batterymen Work Out in the Gym
nasium, and Show Much Promise.
Two More Candidates Report.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF SCHEDULE
Team Plays North Carolina, Georgia
and Northern Colleges, but Fail to
|. Meets Any OF the State Teams.
Season Opens March IS.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE VA, January
30.-Two promising twirlers Will join
the Virginia baseball squad ut the close
of the basketball season, according to
report. and Judging from their past per-
formances no member OF last years
pitching stan has anything on either OF
them.
The players in question are Luck, left
guard. and Strickling. center. on tho
basketball quint. Both OF these men
had considerable diamond experience
before entering Virginia, and. II re-
ports are true. should find no trouble
whatever In making the varsity nine.
Luck came to Virginia from Wander
bilt University, where he spent two ses-
sions preparing himself for course in
engineering. He made his letter in both
baseball and basketball at the Tennes-
see institution. In his last year at
Nashville he defeated such strong ball
clubs as the University OF Michigan.
Tennessee and Alabama-among the
the biggest contests on the Commodore
scheduie that season. He Is right
handler. and is fast on the bases He
Is rated as one Of the guards in South
ern basketball circles. He Is n brotber
of John Luck. who received his Ph. n.
degree mt the university few wears
ago.
Strickland. the giant centre, halls
r.. After
ing his letter In basketball last season
he joined the battery candidates at
work in the cage of the Fayerweather
gymnasium, and made a fine impression
upon Pop" Lannigan.
Strickland made his debut on,tne dia.
mond at Marshall College, West Vir
GINA Some of the victories he gained
home State "
Twenty CandI6afS,
me squad OF twenty battery candi-
oates. who have been working out daily
~ ' ne iratSerweather gymnasium since
In their limbering up process under
the eye of I.nnnigan. Lannigan is de-
s surh'n nS, 10 have the candidates in
be able to profit by outdoor work when
IN, me hrst good weather comes along
1. mere nave heen many sunshiny days in
January, but the ground has been too
camp 10 allow the men to get out on
Lambeth Field. If the good weather
nut Doors os by ,h TIE men should get
me. Inc players are anxious to get n
jump OF at least two or three week
on the Nationals squad.
Flanagan, the former Jenereo,
School twirler who made his letter in
foo:hail during the past season. Is dis
playing form. He is rarely absent from
practice. tie was used very little last
season. lie oftciated in a ten-inninr
game against Cornell. which the Itha-
cans captured IN the extra frame The
youngster fields his position we'll
Following is Virginia's revised schcd-
ule Tor the season.:
March 13-Washington
March 17-WashinRton.
March 2O--Washington.
March 24-Washington
March 26--Amherst
March 21--Amherst.
April 2-Princeton.
April 3--Yale
April 5-Fordham
April 6-Cornell
April Cornell
April S--WillIams
April 9.'-Trinity, ut Durham. NJ c.
Anril lo-North Carolina at Durham.
y. G. ""''''
April 12-North Carolina. at Green's
boro. y. G.
A.oriI Michigan !pending)
April lI-Catholic University.
April l9-North Carolina
April 21-Georgia.
April 22--GeorGia.
April 26--Trinty
April 2S-Princeton. at Princeton
ADril o9--Harvard. at Cambridge.
April 3o-Rrown. at Providence. r..
May Yale, at New Haven.