New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-02
HARVARD'S SWEET REVENGE
YALE LAID LOW At BASEBALL.
IIIE CRIMSON WINS THE THIRD GAME ANT
THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
SHESCOREs sIxRUNs To HER RIVAL's FOUR

IHE SfAOND BALL PlTCHED FOR HOME H',N
IL 900 TO 5000 PEOPLE SEE MAGNIFI.
CENT INTERCOLLEGIATE CONTEST AT
THE POLO GRoUNDs-AToNEMENT
FOR THE DEFEAT OF THE CAM.
BRIDGE CREW AT NEW.
LONDON on FRIDAY.
The story of the intercollegiate baseball game
is told in few words. Harvard had the Cap
tain and Yale had the crowd. Everybody went
TO the Polo Grounds yesterday expecting to wit
ness another brilliant victory for the blue. Nat
urally then, those there were. for the most
part people who were willing to sec what they
expected to see. Harvard boys attended from a
sense Of duty. with fear in their hearts and
hope none too close at hand Ii is not easy to
stir up enthusiasm in the face Of odds al
betting such three to one. Not even coll
lege man yell with that measure of enthusi-
asm. that buoyancy and that robust stentorian
tone which is the sure expression of a collegians
confidence. whcl confidence is lacking. lie yells,
hut thc athlete for whose comfort the yell is
given knows that it means consolation in de-
feat. and not the assurance of victory.
The great American heart goes out to Yale.
naughty and noisy and superlatively self-assured
as Yale ever is. because her boys always seem to
mean to get there Whether they play at foot
or row a boat, they always do it with certain
sublime belief in themselves, which, animatng the
vast crowd Of coegians that always focks
around the players, soon gives color an spirit
to the atmosphere The bearing Of a Yale nan
always implies that there can be no doubt under
heaven of his team coming out ahead. sug-
gestion of doubt does not arouse his anger, but
his amused pity. He looks and acts as il he
thought that the person who expresses the doubt
must necessarily be out Of his head. This is the
spirit that makes the Yale shout so tremend-
ously full of confidence. 1t is the spirit that IN
toxicatcs, that carries the crowd with 1t; that
covers the adversary with modification and nils
him with dlsmay And the amazing, indeed the
paralyzng thing about il is that il is just as vocif-
erous and Just as dauntless when the score card
reads i'll as when it reads well
This spirit pIeases an American crowd immensely.
II is accepted a type Of the National spirit ana
despite the fact that there is general feeling
among the unpreipdced public that Yale wins 100
often, and that il does her good 10 get a sound
drubbng once in a while, it nevertheless operates
to lales advantage in every contest. 1t was
with Yale yesterday in great force The New
Haven boys, fresh from the victory of their row.
ing crew, attended at the Polo Grounds in
mighty company. They were reinforced by
hundreds of Princeton chaps. whose sympathies
and lunas were wholly enlisted in fales favor.
They were we'll grouped among the grandstands,
so as 20 seem 10 he in full possession OF tho
crowd and their shouts went up like the shouts
Of men against whom force could prevail
The Harvard team had calculated upon this
situation. They knew the quality OF the men
tlry were about To meet. They knew that their
strength did not lie in the grandstand. but In
their own superb. muscle. They knew that they
must see no sight and hear no sound that arose
behind the string that incloscd the diamond
They knew that they must play as II their hino
men and the nine opposed 10 them We're tie oiiy
persons within the range of their VISION OF '"''
Icarinr. They went to the bat with this de-
tcrmination and before half OF the nrst Hinnis
WAS over. witt. magnificent home run score"
for tboir nrodt and epcouraq cement il had become
in every man of them crystallzed prihcip'"
The crandstand the crowd the noise, was ho'"i"'
The, downing of Yale was everyt hng.
There have been bigger crowds at 'ne iv,. NV
Grounds than the one assembled to witness '''i'
strife of college gladators. but none u,0,
quickly or more deeply interested Falr races '''s
bonnets and pretty gowns were sprinfieo '"'ou v.
:, ike flowers in a hot-house. The synpatmes
Of the girls were more generous and 'oi i''-
nersonah than those of the men. lhey, w
rho nroportion of at least five to one wave~ amy
wore Yale coors. but they had 10 admire pi",S'
whosever nluck il was. Their secret sympa'"s
went out for the team that seemed 70 DIP pi"s-
ing at disadvantage, that appeared 10 De 'he un-
der dog in the fight, and IL frequently go' '"c
ho,,.r Of them and manifested itself in screams
Of delight when Mason's wiry httn h2ure oasne'
around the diamond, or Highlands with DEVIL
dering suddenncss nterposed his colossal form
ooainst q hall that some Yale batter had sent
| confidently fying into the field. The granc
Glands and the gaueres were filed and an enor-
r,ous crowd found seats in the uncoVere"
| stands Hundreds more upheld the ropes, anu
10 IL was not the most numerous assemniage
over contained within the fences Of the foio
Cround il was entirely respectable IN point OK
numbers and in all other respects priillahe.
No time was lost in calling the game. Yale
,,,nt ir,o the field receiving a mighty greeting
~ ,h. wav In their greatest variety and high
est intensity the Yale cries went forth incy
said far more plainly than could have been eN'
pressed in words taken from the dictlonary'
Stand by the record made at New-London on
Friday No doubt the cry was well unders'oou'
and by nobody better than the saucy little cheruo
who went forth with crimson IL on MS oreas'
.rd a hat in his hand. This was Mason. the
Harvard catcher stocky, nervy, quick little fei-
low. with as much American grit compressed into
his body as ever body could hold. Mason -
not pretty TO look at He is NOT puii' On '"e
lines ~ AN Adons There is nothing regular aooue
obout him except his wits He has not been
4, GOOD luck recently. He had the side Of his
head split open not long ago, his knee knocked
ont of Joint and blister lifted in the palm Of his
hand about the size of hens egg lie was
pretty we'll gummed up with sticking plaster and
he wore a limp as obvious as the proud letter
on his shirt front. But all that was nothing 70
Mason aow The sticking plaster was badge
of honor and the blister and the limp only cau~
ton and an inspiration He took the bat in his
hands and he looked at Carter with plain and
hearty challenge.
Carter WAS the Yale pitcher. long lean and