BASEBALL

Instead of the extensive Southern trip of last year announcement has been made by the baseball management that during the Easter vacation the baseball squad will spend the first week at Andover, Mass., playing practice games with the Andover Academy team. After playing a series in the interval between April 5 and 11 the team will return to Hanover for the rest of the vacation.

Since the middle of February, when fifty men reported, the baseball men have been working steadily along in the cramped quarters of the cage and waiting anxiously the breakup of the snow covering the campus. Until the squad leaves for Andover the thirty-six men now out will be kept on the squad. Coach Keady is encouraged with the outlook, and hopes for an even better showing than the surprising results obtained by the team last year.

The great problem this year seems to be in the development of a battery, as the infield and outfield will be well taken care of by a fast fielding and hard hitting bunch of players. The position of catcher, however, is being accounted for much better than was expected with the disqualification of Leonard, last year's regular. Three strong men are now putting up a high class competition which assures a good result. The fear of a weak pitching staff is also rapidly disappearing, and while prospects are not as bright as they might be, in Mitchell '10, a veteran, Ganley '11, pitcher on last year's freshman team, and two promising Freshmen, Ekstrom and Frothing ham, a reliable if not brilliant pitching staff is possible.

The men now on the squad are: Pitchers — Mitchell '09, Hammond '09, Finn 10, West '10, Ganley '11, Needham '11, Davis 'l2, Ekstrom '12, Frothmgham 'l2, Gammons '12, B. A. Hoban '12; catchers — Chadbourne '10, Kinney '10 , McLaughlin '11, Elcock 12, Steen '12; infielders — Schildmiller 09. Brady '10, Norton '10, Conroy '11, Eaton ' 11, Richardson '11, Jenkins '11, Knapp '12, Orr '12; outfielders — Langdell '10,Coggins '11, Cooper '11, Post '10, Emerson '11, Chase '12.