New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-12
THE GIANTS HAD TO HUSTLE
,pOVN.5 EXCELLENT SHOWING AGAINST
THE PROFESSIONALS.

THE FINAL. SCORE WAS TO 7-BETTER WORK
THAN THAT BY EITHER YALE OR TIE
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Tho Brown University baseball team made is
,,earance at Manhattan Field yesterday in game
AGAINST the New-York League team. and the irlenH5
~ the college may feel highly elated at the result
The college boys kept the professionals busy from
Start TO finish 1t was sill: too cold and bleak for
outdoor sport and mere handful OF spectators
witnessed the contest.
Tho game was close and exciting. and 1t was par
,icularly well played. far as the coIeGians from
providence were concerned. The young men fdced
their professional opponents with degree OF con-
fdence and a display OF nerve not generally seen
IN amateur teams. They showed vim and snap in
,bejr work from the start. and the score Of 70 I
IN favor of New-York shows. in a measure. that
Brown has n good ball team this year. This Is a
much better showing than that made by either the
University Of Pennsylvania or Princeton and 1t
entitl,, Brown equal chance with Yale in the
college series for the loving cup offered by the
Network club to the college team making the pest
showing against the Giants. NaleS score was 10
: Yale using two pitchers. while Brown used Only
one Messrs Ta.cott Mckee and Day are the COM
mi,tee to decide which team is entitled to the cup.
but it is not believed that any of the committee
was present Yesterday. If they nobody saw
them Yale has one mole chance to bette: her rec
ord against the Giants
II was announced yesterday that Sexton would
mitch for Brown but. according to the Brown graz
mates who were present Sexton has not been In
college in nearly two years. and he is al present
I'm Michigan. There grumblng in COnse-
Gucnce. for with Sexton pitching Browns chances
for making a good showing were particularly bright
White. however. is cear-headei young p!icher
with good speed and curves, and he Will make Il
GOOD record this year donaldson, the regular sec
0nl-baseman. sick ana his place was nlled ny
SummersgilL The latters work was poor, DOth III
the field and al the bat
dunno the catcher is a spry little long-hared
fellow who played with the POLYTECHNIC Institute
iesu and he is the amateur champion hand-bau
The Brown Outfiei work good. Cooke. fuItz
aad Willard all making difficult running catches.
The coll age boys throw great deal of energy
into their play, and they dashed into the profess
SIGNALS with supreme Indifference TO the superior
weight and toughness Of their rivals. Ana they
talk ike real ball-players said one spectator when
The Brown coacher yelled. Make ii be good" and
anotber remarked Amt nobody out?'
The showing made by the Giants in the games
with Yale and Brown is not flattertng to the pen
naut chances of the team and the Kind OF work
done In these two games will not win many League
battles OF course. professionals Will not overwork
themselves in early spring games. Something,
about time for the Giants to bestir themselves ana
settle down 10 bal-playing, for the Championship
season is only a week off. Davis made 4 splendid
running catch and he batted well. but his general
field work poor Murphy did the best all
around work on the team. and Davis Will make a
grievous blunder if he does not play the little Yale
man regularly. Where Murphy should be played IS
apparent to many. and it might be advisable to
make the change before il is too late. knausS
pitched the first three innings Clark the second
three and German finished the game None OF
them did anything remarkable The score: