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Latest Issue of “1 Men’s Notes De scribes Baseball Here Fifty Years Ago. The latest issue of the “P Men’s Notes, taking the view that its read ers would be interested in athletics at Indiana fifty years ago and in some thing about the men who played, has articles by six men who were on the University's first baseball team. Eight of the men who were on the first baseball squad, according to the Notes, are still living. Mr. M. A. Mc Donald, who is known as “the father of baseball at Indiana,” tells in a most interesting manner how the game of baseball was started, giving a graphic description of each of the players and telling of some of the incidents which happened. The ball was said to be very much heavier and the men had only the crudest of equipment. Each batter fashioned and furnished his own bat, while the catcher protected himself by wearing high top boots and stuffing his trousers with straw. Mr. A. P. Twineham has contributed an article on the evolution of athletics, in which he showed the growth at In diana. Dr. H. H. Sutton is the author of an article entitled “In the Early Sev enties,” while W. D. Bynum, J. Shan non Nave, and John H. Bothwell also contributed shorter articles on the ear ly baseball teams. Reports of the whereabouts and the doings of a hundred and six of the “I” men take up the last three pages of the Notes. Faculty, students, alumni and friends of California University have raised $7,000 of the $8,000 necessary to send a unit to the French Ambu lance Corps. Each unit will consist of twenty-one men. Coeds at the State College of Wash ington have organized a rifle team. Honor at Michigan. The students of the University of Michigan have adopted the honor system of examinations, and put them into effect at their mid-terms.
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Bloomington Indiana Daily Student
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 12, 1917
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