Freshman Nine.

The candidates for the freshman nine are doing regular work in the cage every day now catching grounders, sliding bases, and starting. The best men for first base are Lighthall, Rogers, Caswell, Stevenson; for second base, Dreyfus, Phelan, and Dodge; for third base Lawton, P. W. Whittemore, and Worman; for short stop, Mills, Cassatt, J. K. Whittemore, Adams, and Wilder; for the outfield, Bent, Bacon, Bigelow, Floyd, and Winslow. Two of the pitchers are working under Keefe, the others under Downer. The best men are W. T. Smith, Reed, Webb, Coonley, and G. L. Smith. The good catchers are Bacon, Eddy, Walker, Boyden and McAdams.

The pitchers as a rule are too light and lack speed. The catchers are good backstops, but as far as the work in the cage shows are poor throwers. The men as a whole lack snap and put very little heart into their work. They do not go in as if they realized that two important games with Yale and perhaps one with Princeton are to be played which can be won only by faithful and hard work. There is a tendency to shirk the sliding and running especially. About 18 men will be kept practising during the Easter vacation, and all the others will be dropped in the next few weeks. The nine will go out doors as soon as the weather permits.

A provision schedule has been made out including games with Exeter, Andover, Groton, Brown '95, M. I. T. '94, St. Marks, and the schools of the Interscholastic League. The first game will be played April 4 or 7, probably with the Browne and Nichols team. The Yale games will probably be played May 14 in Cambridge and May 28 in New Haven.

W. B. Odiorne, the manager has appointed several collectors who have begun work so far with very little success. It is to be hoped that the freshman class will give their nine the financial support necessary to allow the management to arrange games that will give the team the practice needed to give it a fair hope of success with Yale.