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Show YALE WILL HAVE GOOD BALL CLUB Team Expected to Be a Trifle Better Than Has Been the Average iu Recent Years. Xi:W HAVEN", Conn.. March 1. Captain Cap-tain It. ' B. Koyd of the Vale baseball nine lias a snuad strong in quality and larse in number, assuring a team perhaps a trlllo belter t'nan The Yale average in recent campaigns. Half a dozen players of the lasi two or three seasons, who have bean in military service, are possibilities, possi-bilities, although tliey have not yet returned re-turned to college. L'ncena inty still prevails over the return re-turn of Tliorp.fi Murphy, son of the late-Mike late-Mike Murpliv. an unusually clever second baseman find a member of the freshma.n nine in IDlfi. Murphy has been in aviation avia-tion service. H he returnp to college in March, as is expected, he will go to second sec-ond base, while Tom Sawyer, the former Exeter keystone fielder, who played last season on the Yale varsity without an error, er-ror, will be moved a'.onj to shortstop. The team suffered a loss In the graduation grad-uation of Ktdie Talcott. the most brilliant bril-liant Yale pitcher of recent seasons, but Coxe. a burlv left-hander, and IloMnson. a riht-hanrter. who were the alternate pitchers of the freshman learn last year, are excel t'ooally promlsine men. Behind Be-hind the bat Cal Holmes, varsity catcher Ht vear, has a formidable rival n Shee-hau. Shee-hau. 'bc fo-mer Ardover backstop. The pa'r will divide Yale's catching. "Haser. who wss first ba. email of the T'niverfitv of Virginia nine last year. Is the !e,vlb,7 cs.ndic'.ue for this position on the Yrtl1 team. He also formerly playei at Andover. 'Because of the suspension of tbe ore -year eligibility rule. Hasrer is enabled to pass from the Virginia to the Yale nine without loss of playing time. ' Kay Gee. the diminutive third baseman base-man of Inst vear's nine, is favorite in the. competition for this position, although al-though pr.inn, a utility player, will be tlven a trial Cininin Eovd will, return to center iicM. Vie is a former Arriover star ;)nd a brilliant ad-around player, although his batting last season was fir below- his former standard. Eddie Phev-lin, Phev-lin, captain of the freshmen last year. I 1 I I Is sure cf an out!it?iel position, jud?ed by ; his con e:s tent forr,i. fie is a. cousin ol i Tom ShiivMn, Vs'.e's v.,o$t brilliant' n li -' arc:nd athlete ox fir'tetri ye;ii s a;o. ' Falicrty, captain of Andover team two years ago, is a no her candidate of ' eMcep'tiOn.il a:rcn?th for The ou'.fie".'!. : RoVtrt Hoklen, Contor fie'd-'r of tile Yai varsity in 1915. will procah'y return to i college before the hepuming' of the season sea-son and rejoin the baseball candidates. Shipyards Out of Luck. Thf shipyards will lose r'enty of play- ' ers new that the ;v is ovc r. Sn::lh Joins Giar.ts. I Georce Smith, lorir.cr Columbia pitchor, has signed with the Giants a sain. |