DAVIDSON TO COACH 1927 BASEBALL TEAM

Mr. Claude B. Davidson, President of the Greater Boston Twilight League, has been reengaged to coach the Freshman baseball team this year, according to an announcement made last night after a meeting of the Baseball Advisory Committee. It was also announced that Mr. William J. Stewart has been selected to handle the second University nine.

Davidson has been closely connected with baseball for several years as a player, manager, coach, and organizer. He played at Volkman School and Brown University, and his professional experience includes service with the Philadelphia and Washington American League clubs. He gave up organized baseball while at the height of his career to enter business. He organized the twilight league in Greater Boston, and has been its president for two years.

Last year he coached the Harvard Freshman team, which won 12 out of 16 games, but lost to Yale and Princeton. Handicapped by a weakness of battery candidates, the team made a record which reflects considerable credit upon Davidson's coaching ability. He has also been the manager of a semi- professional team in Bristol, Connecticut, for the past two summers.

Stewart, who is best known to Harvard men as an official at the Arena hockey games, is also a former major league ball player. He pitched for the Chicago Americans and for minor league teams in Louisville and Syracuse. Last summer he managed the Allentown, Pa., team. He coached Boston University in 1921 and Muhlenburg College last year.

The engagement of these two men, following close upon the announcement that Fred F. Mitchell, ex-manager of the Boston Braves, will drill the battery candidates, seems to indicate that a determined effort is being made to strengthen the baseball coaching department. The University, Second, and Freshman teams will all have directors of proven ability and wide experience both as players and coaches. The waning baseball prestige of the University should thus be in a large measure revived