Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-06
YALE NOTES.

1 Events and HappenIngs On and or the Campus-The Ball Teams-The Yacht Club.
 l The football team did not go to Middle town Saturday as was expected.
 The New York Times says that the two po- l 1itica1 battalions at Yale are about even in
 number. Evidently the writer knows very little about the politics of Yale or else he
 made an (un)intentional blunder.
 At meeting of the senior class on Saturday
 morning Frank R. Shipman was elected class l orator, Charles E. Cushing class poet and ] Edward H. Chandler statistician. The class seemed to be well agreed from the first, as only one ballot was taken for orator, two l men having been nominated There was only one nominated for each of the other l honors and therefore they were elected by ac- ] clamation.
 The base ball team suffered defeat at the l hands of the Hartford nine Saturday after noon, the score being 12 to 1. This is the first game played by the nine this year and of course an opinion of the strength of the team cannot yet be formed, as not much practice has been had. However, we believe that there is strength enough to retain the pennant of last year and so help to make the triple victory again complete.
 The fall races of the Yale Yacht club took place on Saturday. The Stranger, Merrill 'S6 captain, was the winner in the first class.
 The Hylas, Crane 85 captain, took the prize in the second class and the Yale, J. B. Keogh '95 captain, was the handsome winner in the third class. The course was down the har- bor, around the breakwater and back again to Long wharf.
 The senior geological excursion called forth goodly number of men, though not as many as the one week before Pine and West l Rocks were visited and the remarks of Pro- lessor Dana were very interesting. The greater portion found it difficult to keep up with the professor and laughingly styled the excursion "A long run for the sake of violent exercise"
 The valuable collection of Japanese curios- ities which was bequeathed to the college by the late Prof. s. Wells Williams has been carefully arranged in cases, and placed in the
 mineralogical room in Peabody. The speci- mems are rare ones and well worth the inspec- | tion of any who are interested in such things. The 'S7 vs. '8S base ball game at the park on Saturday was much better than the aver l age ophomore-freshman game, as it was not
 so much interrupted by rushing. '87 gained three runs in the first inning and soon after
 ran up the number to five. '88, however, took | a tremendous brace and soon the score stood l even. Darkness began to settle over the | ground during the 9th inning and the score was run up to by both sides. Neither nine l gained any more runs and at the end of the l 7th inning the game was called on account of ] the darkness and the usual rush prepared
 for. '87 formed outside of the gate and
 waited for '88. The representatives of '88,
 though few, were plucky and with the engin-
 eering of the juniors gained the sic .1k and | held it all the way into town tc the great dis
 comfture of the sophomores, as such
 8 thing has not happened before for
 several years. The freshmen pitcher and
 first baseman deserve mention as playing
 their positions finely. Stagg, the pitcher,
 with remarkable coolness amidst the yslls of
 the sophomores, pitched such curves that '87
 could do scarcely anything at the bat. There
 is nothing that will excite so much class feeling as 8 little rough and tumble rush
 and '68 seems to be very plucky in such
 actings. There is good material there to l bring us victories in base ball in the few | years while 'S9 will be with us.
 The Hathorn water, 2. dozen in a case, a