Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-18

To-M Orrow's s sGame-What the Chances
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 News-General News.
 The University G1ee and Banjo club give a concert at Northampton tonight.
 Entries for the intercollegiate games close tomorrow.
 Move on, fence so says the corporation.
 The base ball management would do we'll to arrange another game with Holy Cross. They would give the nine a good game and the one played Thursday was satisfactory to no one. They would draw we'll another time. The freshmen played a spirited prac- tice game at the Field yesterday. Tomorrow they play Harvard '91 at Cambridge.
 Tomorrow comes the struggle that will either raise or blast Yale's hopes for the base ball pennant. That the contest will be close and exciting and that an immense crowd will witness it, weather permitting, may be set down as certain. The defenders of the blue will not yield without hard fight and what their chances are for to-morrow's game is a frequent question. The COURIER has main tained ,and still does so, that Yale can win if she plays the ball she is capable of playing, but the chances now seem considerably against her and the hardest kind of work will be required to gain a victory. The re- suits of some of the practice games have reasonably sent Yale stock down while Har- yard is way up mainly through the remark able work of Bates, her pitcher. But little evidence of the result can be drawn from these practice games, notably from the one with Holy Cross. The nine is weak tain with it. In the games with Princeton they batted well, ontbatting the men who in the first game at Cambridge out batted Harvard. But in other games the batting has been very light, for instance in the games with Amherst, Williams and Holy Cross Hunt struck out twice in the game with the last named team on drop ball, the most effective that Bates has In the field the nine is probably up to the average of Yale hines. The outfeld is shamefully weak on grounders and is too prone to drop a fly occasionally we'll. The infeld is now playing good ball. Mcbride at first is cov- eriDg the base brilliantly as a rule, while Stewart in his old position at second is field ing strongly and his presence seems to have a asteadying influence on the men. He will be of great service on the coach nine Short could not be in better hands than McConkey' s while Moves is covering third in a most cred 1table fashion, making some great stops and throwing we'll to first, although getting the ball rather low at times. Behind To be sure Stagg is not quite as effective as he was last year, but he is nevertheless pitching finely He has done wonderful work for Yale, winning many victories for her. At critical moments he seems in his element, and is still tower of strength on the team. To him the undergraduate faith is pinned, and as Saturday is one of-.those critical times when he comes up smiling good work may be expected of him. Of the Harvard nine little can be said. Her career thus far has been an uniformly victorious one: She is very strong in the infeld, hits hard, and Bates in the box has suddenly come forth as phenomenon. He has so far proved very effective, and will doubtless se- riously trouble the Yale batsmen. It will be 8 good fight and well worth seeing. The COURIER wishes each member of the Yale team the best of good fortune and happy victory tomorrow.