The Williams Nine.

The Williams Weekly says the prospects for the Williams baseball team "never looked brighter than they do this year." The in-field has only lost one man, Duryea, from last year, and this position will be easily filled from the number of those who are trying for the nine. The following men are at present in training: Brown, Clarke and Wilson from '89; Brown, Campbell, Corliss. Durand and Perry, '90; Arthur, Cox, Holhster, Hotchkiss, Luce, Thompson, '91; and Armstrong, Campbell, Davies, McKean, Mapes, Roberts, Woodward, '92. Among these. Hotchkiss, Luce, and Campbell, '92, will be readily recognized as old Andover men. The men are now doing gymnasium work; but as soon as possible they will practice on the field, and a second nine will be selected to play against the first. Casey of the Philadelphias will again train the team this year, and will be in Williamstown from the middle of February until the middle of March. The team will take a Southern trip, but arrangements have not yet been made for it. The proposition to join a league with University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Trinity, Lafayette and Columbia was refused, on the ground that the distance from the other colleges is too great.