TO CALL OUT BATTERY MEN AFTER MID-YEARS

The Baseball Graduate Advisory Committee has decided to have all pitchers and catchers start work in the cage immediately after the close of the mid-year examination period, according to announcements made last night. Candidates for the other positions on the team will not be called out until about the first of March.

Coach Fred Mitchell, business manager of the Boston Braves, will be in charge of the battery men for his second successive year. He was coach during the fall practice session and will continue the work he started then. Mitchell was also head coach of the baseball team in 1916 when he developed a substitute infielder into a pitcher who was good enough to defeat Yale in the first game he had ever pitched. Coach Mitchell will have excellent material to work with this year with the return of Philip Spalding '25, J. E. Toulmin '25 and E. L. Gehrke ocC., all letter men. In addition several of last year's championship Freshman nine are ready to try for a place on the University team next spring.

This year's coaching staff is composed of E. W. Mahan '16, head coach, Fred Mitchell, battery coach. Fred Lake, Second team coach, and Claude Davidson, coach of the 1928 ball tossers. The committee has not yet decided when the candidates for the first year team are to be summoned for practice.