Approximately 40 candidates for the University baseball team are working out regularly in the Briggs Cage under Coach Mitchell. Although it is still early to make many predictions, five lettermen have reported for practice and are expected to form the backbone of this year's Varsity nine. they are F. H. Gleason '34, E. F. Loughlin '34, Captain J. P. McCaffrey '33, Hamilton Thacher '33, and John Ware '34.

Promising material from the Junior Varsity is in abundance. Among the most outstanding are S. S. Adams '33, G. D. Fremd '34, P. W. Hines '34, R. D. Kiernan '34, F. P. Locke '33, J. M. Lockwood '34, T. A. Lupion '34, J. F. McJennett '33, W. J. McTigue '33, and Phineas Tube ocC. From last year's Freshman team come J. A. Fitzpairick '35, D. H. Gleason '35, Robert Haley '35, C. S. Sargent '35, Huntington Thom '35 and W. D. Vesey '35.

For over three weeks the battery candidates for the Varsity and Freshman squads have been working daily under Coach Mitchell; and the latter will continue under him until Coach Rufus Bond '19 now the first-year basketball mentor, takes up his new duties with them at the close of the basketball season on Saturday, March 11.