Baseball Notes.

Preparations are going on at a rapid rate for Thursday's game with Yale. The sale of tickets has been something unprecedented for any baseball games. In spite of the large additions to the grandstands, the seats are largely taken, and it is fully expected that all will be sold by Thursday morning.

The diamond has again been improved. Once more sod has been removed and loam packed firmly in its place, until there is a broad path some fifteen or twenty feet wide running from first base all the way around to third base. There is hardly any possibility of bad bounds on balls to the infield.

The nine practiced as usual yesterday, but not so long as usual. They devoted most of their time to batting, and had three professional pitchers to pitch against them.

They will continue the same work today, and will bat this morning in addition to the regular afternoon practice.

Mr. Clarence Smith, who has been coaching the nine all the spring, and who deserves the gratitude of the University for his unflagging interest, has just made out a list of some twenty questions, which he has propounded to the nine. They deal with all sorts of matters as to quick plays, sacrifice hits and the like and is in fact a sort of an examination paper, and is said to be very valuable and interesting.