Preliminary work for next spring's baseball nine will begin with battery practice in the baseball cage on Soldiers Field at 3.30 this afternoon. The work for the present will be confined to men who have been candidates heretofore, and there will be no general calling out of candidates until after the midyear examinations. The men who will begin work today are: I. T. Cutter '03, P. N. Coburn '03, H. S. Hutchinson '04, R. R. Alexander '04, B. K. Stephenson '06, R. E. Hammond '03, J. A. Tuckerman '05.