Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-18
VIRGINIA PLAYS NEWARK
UNIVERSITY TO PRACTICE
WITH INT. PROFESSIONALS
Squad Numbers Forty piuycrs-Thur-
NM Probable Fixture mt First.
Other Grid Stars for Nine.

Especial 10 The Timcs-Dispatch.l
CHARLOTTESVILLE VA. March II.
-~Nirginia's revised baseball schedule
includes five games with the Newark
club Of the international League. Man
aR"r Tom NecdlaIn and his Bengals
will reach charlottcsvillc Tuesday night
and begin spring training the follow
ing afternoon. On Thursday afternoon
the Tigers will play their first cxhi-
hilton game with the college team.
Following tho contest with Staunton
Military Academy two days later. the
Virginia team Will. weather permitting,
following week.
me college season proper opens on
Lambeth Field on Thursday. March 80.
when Amherst comes for two games.
The Massachusetts nine has come South
FOR four or i've years past to start
the collegiate season. and are big ia
%vori,cs here. They usually grab one
OF the contests.
Tn" week beginning Apri! VIII give
the Orange and Blue team an oppor-
iun!t% for two more games with New
ark. These viii be staEcd on Monday
ana Wednesday. as Princeton is due
for her annual game with Virginia on
Friday. and Lchigh drops in the fol-
lowing day.
The big Easter Monday game this
year Will he with Cornell. The Ith-
atans also VIII remain over for a sec
Qua game on Tuesday. on Wednesday
syracuse meets Virginia on the exc
OF the teams departure that night for
It's southern trip. which includes two
I contests with Tho f'nir.rr,,y 80 TO-
eia. at Athens, and two games with
III" University OF North Carolina. tho
iirst ~ Greensboro on Saturday. and
the second on Emerson Field. at Chap
Il Hill. on Monday.
fastening home from Dixie land.
Virginia VIII encounter the Harvard
nine on Lambeth Field on TUESDAY
After mat but three home games re-
na!n-North Carolina on the 2lst and
ihe UNIVERSITY OF Georgia on April %
anu y Ihen comes the annual
Horthern trip. which calls for one
game each with Princeton and IIar-
ward and two with Yale at New Haven
where the nine breaks training.
ihc forty-odd candidates for Vir-
finia's team have not. TO date. had
me outdoor practice usually obtained
IN former years. owing TO the rainy
weather. ON Monday Of this week. for
the ilrsi time This season. the PLAYERS
worked out on the Lambeth Field dia-
mond. with the mercury lowering
above 40 degrees. Next day a furry
ol snow and some rain kept the men
IN the gymnasium. but Wednesday af-
~ternoon, despite the wet grounds. the
players cngaScd In a lively batting
practice. Thursday and Friday ideal
weather conditions prevailed. and the
mon put in some rood licks. For the
frs, time this year the ,wirlers lin
ocrcd up in real fashion.
nHterfni Sppenrs 10 re Eoo5
Nhile IL is rather early yet to nick
me team that will represent the
orange and Blue this season. IL looks
Just now as If the inhcld for the OPEN
inn sa"res VII! be composed as fol-
lows: Allen Thurman, first base: Nor
ton, second base: Pritchett, shortston
ana charlie White, third ase. There
are four backstop candidates. Nick"
GwathmeE and Eawzc, of last wears
squad; Darwin. of the University Of
tennessee' and Russell. who comes
from Andovcr. Prospects are bright
10 land n steady. receiver from this
quartet. Late in the season last sprinr
Charlie White was given a chance 70
perform behind the bat. but It is quite
PROBABLE that he Will be kept at the
not corner this spring.
Captain Ed. Smith will no doubt bo,s
down his old position in center field.
Leading candidates for the two va
cancies in the outer garden are Ma
nood. formerly of Fishburne Military
academy. who showed up we'll on the
nrst-ycar team last spring; Taylor.
from Southwestern University: Cronly.
from the Episcopal High School: Mo-
ran from the Miller School: 'Dick"
Gwathmey, of last years squad: Roth
well. from William and Mary College.
II Holland, from the Eastern shore
of Virginia.
a likely looking candidate for box
honors is Walker Leach, who made
quite a record at the University OF
Tennessee two years ago. and who is
eligible this year. as is Ed. Gwathmey.
who formerly pitched for Richmond
College. Two football players have
joined the pitching squad-Carrington.
quarterback, and Kinsoiving. half
back. Martin and Groseclose are show
ing Improvement, and will no doubt be
given a chance to show their worth
at an early date. Mccall and Rixey
continued on Second PaEe.)