Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-22
SPIDER BASEBALL SQUAD
IS ROUNDING into FORM
DobSon Has Eliminated Players
Until Twenty Are Left
I'm Fold.
NUMBER OF TwIKLERs NEEDED
Richmond College Must DeveIope
Pitchers Before Leaving on south
ern Trip-Will Play First Real
Game Of Season With Lafayette.

| The Richmond College baseball
squad has nut In 81 good week. and in
rounding into improved form. The
twenty men. and before starting on the
Southern trip ii will be cut to q total
of fifteen men. Dobson Is planning TO
max. his decision very slowly because
! the men are closely mntched, and the
| finai wedding is rather difficult.
! The first important game IL but ten
days off. ON April ! the Spiders NEE,
! Lafayette AZ Broad street Park. This
team makes a trip TO Virginia and the
Cnrolinas every spring, aud in spite OF
the handicaps 81 generally manages TO
present a strong front and cops most
OF the games played With teams in this
section,
/ Examinations hay. cut the super
( f'uous material. one important change
I has also been made In the tentative
/ lineup Logan, who had been playing
first base, and Ancarrow, who, for the
past $50 years has been holding dow II
the second station. were exchanged by
Coach DObson, ANA the variation seems
to work well. Both men look better In
their new positions. y system OF sig =
nails has been laid out to the squad
also, and quite some work has been
play. Coach Dobson recognizes the
vast Importance OF this kind of play.
and lac is laying stress upon II In the
practice exercises. This practice will
be continued during the present week
and the squad will also he given some
more training in base running and
sliding
Field IL Fast One.
The field has been gotten into very
good shape by this time. and one play
ing Held is in excellent condition. The
diamond now In use is said to be one
Of the fastest. IL not the best. in the
state. Work IL proceeding rapidly
upon the second playing ncld, and
within the next ten days II will he
completed and ready for other work
As soon as the exams are over. the
intorclass league wi.i also start prac-
tice preliminary 70 starting off the
league games. This year a long and
heavl schedule will be laid out for the
class teams. and i, Is not improbable
/, that there Will be regular league
game every afternoon from the start
until the latter part Of May, when the
final examinations begin.
Coach Dobson Is trying hard TO get
three dependable pitchers to take with
him on the long Southern trip, which
will start on April s. Cox and Robin
son have the call for the frst two OF
the three bcrths. and the other one
viii be fought out between Burton,
W lCkcV ana W ECKER mas never
pitched before. and his work is purely
experimental, in the hope of develop
Ing him into slnbmnn.
The catchers are pretty we'll punched,
with Blankenship In the lead, follow ed
by Tate and Craven. AnCarrow looks
like fixture at first. Logan or Wiley
Will take care of the center sack. Mac
Pitt VIII occupy the short hcld. and the
hot corner will be held down by Lig-
wam or Wiley. Pitt has been Ill during
the past week, hut il expected out to-
day
In the outield none of tn. candidates
have yet established themselves, with
the probable exception of ONeil The
other two berths will be let out be-
tween Roden. Sisson and Crossley. with
the possible addition OF Cox and
Wicker. who have both had outfeld
experience.
Coach Dobson is anXiously awaiting
the outcome OF Harry Carter's exams,
for If he succeeds in passing them, ne
viii be eligible to play. This boy was
stationed with the Highland Park team
last summer. and did some enviable
work while with them. With his all
around experience, he will make Il good
addition TO the team IL he makes his
scholastic work sufficiently TO play.