COACHES TO STAY OFF BENCH IN YALE BASEBALL GAMES

Harvard and Yale will play their annual baseball series this June without their respective coaches on the bench according to an announcement made by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, last night.

It is understood that the Yale Athletic authorities made the proposal to Bingham and that after consultation with Fred Mitchell, Crimson baseball coach, he decided to accept the invitation. So far Yale has been the only one of Harvard's opponents to make the above move and unless any other negotiations are made with the other colleges that the Crimson is to meet Mitchell will occupy his seat on the bench for those games.

The proposal comes as a direct result of the move being carried on by Dr. Charles W. Kennedy, Director of Athletics at Princeton, to give the game back to the players. Princeton last year had a similar agreement with Yale and several of its other opponents. At the meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in New York at the beginning of the year Yale made the proposal to its opponents in the Eastern Intercollegiate League to play their games under the foregoing provision. Pennsylvania and Columbia accepted, but the remaining three colleges have as yet taken no action.

The move to play the game without coaches on, the bench this year recalls the Harvard-Yale baseball series of 1914 when the Crimson and the Blue played under those conditions. The rule was an innovation that year, but it did not last because the following season the teams reverted back to the old system. Harvard had a great team that year captained by D. P. Wingate '14 and having H. R. Hardwick '15 and E. W. Mahan '16 on its roster. Yale's captain was J. T. Blossom, shortstop, and he piloted the Elis to victory in two of the three games of the series.