Base-Ball at Yale.

Harvard men will be interested in the work in base-ball that is now being done at Yale. The Evening Post has the following. "Now that foot-ball excitement has subsided, athletic enthusiasts are turning attention to next season's base-ball nine. The showing of the 1885 team was a sore disappointment to the college. While it may be said that the material now in college out of which the nine must be chosen is not regarded promising, yet it is believed that a better record than that of last year's team will be made when Yale again faces her rivals. The names of the candidates who want to wear the blue against the college nines were presented to captain Stewart some time ago, and to-day the men went into training in the house newly built for winter practice. The building is 75x40 feet, has a wood floor, plenty of room for batting and throwing, and is heated. Of last year's team there are now in training seven men: Stewart, '86, captain and first base; Bremner, '86, catcher; Sheppard, '87, left field; Marsh, '86 S., centre field; Hiskox, '86 S., short stop; Stagg, '88, third base, and Willet, '89, pitcher. O'Dell, '86, pitcher of the final game with Harvard in 1884, is still suffering with a lame arm. It is not thought he will be able to play. Brigham, '87, of the winning '84 nine, will occupy his old position in left field. J. F. Cross, Hudson, O., a graduate of Western Reserve, and now in the Theological School, will try for short stop. He has played in the West, is quick, active, and well built. F. S. Kellogg, '87 S., caught on '88's Freshman nine last spring, is light, plucky, and regarded a fair man. H. F. Noyes, '89, has made a good record on the Andover nine, of which he was captain, is a good fielder and thrower. He will try for short stop; F. L. Sperry, special student, another Western Reserve man, will try for right field or short stop; J. C. Dann, '89, gives promise as a pitcher, J. O. Heyworth, '88, pitcher of his class nine, is working for a similar place on the university; A. C. Lux, '88, by all odds the most promising catcher in college, has been compelled to leave on account of his father's death, and what might have been a first-class battery has been broken up.

Others in training are Wallace, '88; Shelton, '89, and Thomas, '88, all for catcher."