The University Courier.
27
Rumors say Stagg will catch for the University of Chicago base ball team this season.
All who are interested in Athletics and Amusements, realize the benefits to be derived from a systemetized discussion and presentation of questions pertaining to the same, as well as to keep in tone with the advancement of these factors in other colleges. In this department, from week to week, will be presented the advancement of Athletics and Amusements in our own, as well as other colleges; and, working hand in hand with the Athletic Association we will endeavor to place the accounts of Athletics and Amusements upon a systematic and permanent basis.
With the ending of the football season, after which rapidly followed the holidays, the final examination and the arrangeing of studies for the new term work, Athletics in our University have existed in name only; but in a few more weeks the baseball season will be here and very few men will be in physical condition for it. Were we to heed the precedents of eastern colleges, our gymnasium, small as it is, would daily be filled with men in training for the coming ball team. There cannot be too much stress placed upon hard work and conscientious training as requisites for admission to membership in our future teams.
Success has not always attended us in former years, but, with the co-operation of every University student, we can succeed in bringing baseball to the standard set by K. U.'s representatives in other times of field contests. Many men who, with practice, would develop into splendid players, do not try for the team, either thinking they cannot afford the time or are too modest to appreciate their own qualities. This neither brings forth the best material nor shows the true University spirit. The spring team promises to be a strong one, and thirty or forty men will try for positions on the team. The management of the team is in the hands of Professor Adams, who is thoroughly conversant with baseball, and men will be chosen according to ability, and not according to favor.
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