Yale's innovation of fall practice for the baseball team has been attended with excellent results in the opinion of Coach William Lander, who has been handling the possible candidates for the nine, who are not just now engaged in football, basketball or other sports. He has had between 30 and 40 men at work on the field when the weather would permit playing, against one another in picked teams, with the players at work in different positions or in different combinations.

This process of training of course gives no idea as to the capabilities of the candidates in team work, but it does give Lander a chance to size up their individual values and weaknesses, and helps materially in finding out how much material he will have in the spring. He has discovered some good men who have not been out before as university candidates and says that the team will start out in 1917 with better chances for development than it had a year ago. He expects to have 50 men then, all with a good chance to make the university team.

Strong Pitching Staff Likely.

Yale will have Garfield, Comerford, Fuller, Brainerd and Carey as a pitching staff, with Munson, Mudge, Dann and Stanley as catchers, all with some experience. The rest of the squad of veterans includes Captain Legore, now busy with football, Snell, Bush, Crotty, Kinney, Rhett, Dollard, Lyman, Gilmore, O'Connor and Gage, as infielders, and Conway, Early, Holden, Shepley, Armstrong, Lynch, Page, Gaillard, Thomas and Sheehan as outfielders.

Yale's New Course to be Tried.

Yale will try out its new rowing course over the Housatonic tomorrow if weather permits. The shells are already at the temporary boathouse and two university crows, the first sophomore and the first freshman have had a short row in them. The work was for the purpose of making the crews familiar with the course. No attempts at speed were made, these being reserved for tomorrow when there will be a number of trials between different crews over the two-mile course, which will be used for the races in the spring.

The annual series of Trowbridge Art Lectures have begun at Yale for this year. The series will consist of 11 lectures, each to be presented by an acknowledged authority on his special subject. The series of lectures has been established for many years and has been the means of enabling Yale students to acquire familiarity with the great works of art and the principal periods of art history. The lectures this year are so arranged as to cover the entire history of art.

Convention at Hotel Astor.

The annual convention of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association will be held at the Hotel Astor, New York City, on Thursday, December 28, at 10.30 A. M. There will be sessions, as usual, morning, afternoon and evening. Among the speakers will be Major Palmer E. Pierce, U. S. A., the first president, and Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, formerly vice-president of the Association.

The organization is on record in its by-laws as opposed to proselyting. An attempt will be made to find an answer to this question at the evening meeting, which will be given up to a general discussion of the topic, led by the principals of several prominent secondary schools, among which are Phillips Exeter, Andover, Mercersburg and the University School of Cleveland.

In addition to the usual reports of committees, a preliminary report may be expected from the committee appointed at the last meeting to investigate the effects of intercollegiate competition. The committee appointed a year ago to recommend changes in the constitution will also report.

At the Hotel Astor Wednesday evening, December 27, at 8 o'clock, there will be a meeting of the executive committee, which is made up of the president, the secretary, the district representatives and one member from each local league or conference of colleges whose membership consists of at least six colleges, four or more of them being members of this Association.

Princeton's Triangle Play Chosen.

The final selection of the cast and choruses for the Princeton Triangle play, "Safety First," has been made. At the same time the announcement was made public concerning the personnel of the orchestra and business staff. The business manager is at the present time occuranging the schedule for the Christmas trip, which, although not quite so extensive as last year's, will include a number of Eastern and Middle Western cities. The play this year is to contain a number of unusual novelties, is quite original, and bids fair to be even more successful than usual.

H. De C. Williams, 1917, has been elected captain of the brown swimming team for this season. Practice is now being held twice a week under the direction of N. V. S. Mumford, captain in 1910 who will continue the coaching until after the football season, when Coach Huggins will again take charge. With a nucleus of seven of last year's team and many promising swimmers among the freshmen, the prospects are much brighter than in several years.

One hundred Stanford University men undergraduates for the most part, have volunteered for service in France will the American Ambulance Corps, 48 signed up definitely, the other 52 having yet to obtain the consent of their parents. Expenses are to be paid by: group of wealthy San Franciscans. The terms of service will be six months 0 more.

9,392 at U. of P. This Year.

The registration figures of the University of Pennsylvania, just publisher show a gross enrolment of 9,392, representing a gain of 911 over the enrolment of 1915-16. This does not mean that the is the total of undergraduates, for the undergraduate body is composed of 54 Arts and Sciences men, 830 in Town Scientific, and 1,375 Wharton student only. Out of this number totalling of754, the material for athletic teams secured.

For the first time in the history of a college the students in Arts and Science number more than 500 with a net goes of 54. The Wharton School shows a heaviest increase, the roster of 1,375 being 290 more than last year.