The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-06-30
IT WAS A CRIMSON VICTORY
YALE NINE VANQULSRED IN Il SEN
S4TIONAL CONTEST.

Grand Rally, but Harvard Won by Virtue
of Possessing a Stronger Team.
Harvard defeated Yale at Yale field
yesterday afternoon by a score of 10 to
s before 5000 persons. The scene was
one of the most brilliant ever witnessed
at game in this city. The contest was
fought within an almost perfect circle
of human beings. From the bleachers
on either side there stretched rows OF
private equipages and in front of them
hundreds of spectators sat upon the
ground. The grand stand was crowded,
while the bleachers were bought up by
the various classes nearly a month
ago.
Six bands We're in attendance and one
of them was going all the time. Yale
made an appearance just as the big
class of "a was marching round the
diamond headed by the Wheeler &
Wilson band of Bridgeport. A tornado
of cheers broke forth and swept over
the field and re-echoed in the distance
Harvard had taken a warming up
was clear for the boys of blue. They
worked out for few minutes and then
after Captain Keator had had a short
talk with Harvard's captain 1t was an
nounced that any fair batted ball that
went into the human circle about the
field should be counted home run.
Umpire Campbell, who was furnished
by Nick Young, the National league
magnate. tucked the new ground rule
into a safe corner of his memory and
Immediately called the teams to the
field. AS the Harvard men stood up
from the bench to sort of shake the
kinks out of their muscles the crimson
cheer rolled from a hundred voices.
This was answered by the Second Regi-
ment band striking up Here's to Good
Old Yale" and by a volume of "Rah,
Rah, Rahs" from thousand throats.
The game was on. Yale was in the
field and for a moment there was
hush in the cheering. Pitcher Fincke
went through his first contortions and
from them issued a ball which lightning
would have had to chase hard to catch.
Rand was at the bat and after quietly
| musing over the attitudes of Yale's
twirler finally took base on balls. He
reached second on long fly to center
and went to third on a passed ball.
| Beale flied out to Wallace. Scannell
drew base on balls and while endeav-
oring to steal second was caught be-
| tween the bases. but not put out until
Rand scored the first run of the game.
| Yale was quickly retired. Keator
went out on a ground ball to Chandler
at short, Hazen swiped the air thrice
and all that Letton could do was to
| knock baby grounder to second. The
Harvard men were playing together in
good form. Paine was steady and
showed great speed.
| The second inning witnessed the first
sad disaster to strike Yale. Burgess
| started the ball rolling by placing a
neat hit between second and first Dean
got hit and went to first, and Chandler
flied out to Greenway. Paine hit a
scorcher at Letton and then the Yale
infeld, with one exception, suffered an
attack of rattles Fincke failed to cover
first and Paine was safe. Finckc muff-
ed the ball when it was finally thrown
to him. Two men were on bases, Bur-
CESS having already crossed the plate,
and they quickly made for home.
Fincke threw to Goodwin and he muffe
and two more runs came in. Rand
hit a fly off toward center and Keator
after a hard run muffed l.. Harvard
was retired on a fly by Houghton to
Goodwin.
In Yale's half of the second Gr"enway
smashed the first ball pitched into the
crowd in center and came home. Pan
demonium broke loose for a moment
and Yale stock went up. But the next
three men could do nothing with Paine,
for they all struck out. Harvard failed
to score in the third and so did Yale.
In the fourth Harvard again commenc-
ed to circle the bases. Bases on balls,
aided by timely hits and by ragged
playing by Yale netted the Cambridge
| men four more runs. For old Eli Let
ton hit safely to left and Greenway fol-
lowed with a terrific hit also to left
which was fielded on the skirts of the
crowd but not before he got home
Reed died a first and then Mr. Fresh
man Camp made a pretty two bagger
but before any more runs could be
made the side was retired. Score
Harvard, 8; Yale, 3.
| In the fifth no Harvard man crossed
the plate, but Yale netted two runs on
hits by Letton and Greenway, In five
innings Fincke had given a base on
| balls four different times to the first
man up. His pitching had been erratic,
but in the sixth he shook out a few
more contortions and retired Harvard
on four pitched balls. This is unusual
Each man flied out and only three went
to the bat. Yale did not score either
in this inning, but in her half of the
seventh she tied the score.
At this point the scene went almost
beyond description. Every Yale enthu-
siast stood up and spread his lungs to
their utmost. All the bands played and
| myriads of flags were waved. The
spectators crowded upon the field and it
was fully five minutes before play
could be resumed.
The scoring was done as follows:
Keator hit safely Hazen flied out to
left, Letton and Greenway got bases
on balls, Reed flew out to left and
Keator scored on passed ball, the first
Scannell had. Then with two out and
two men on bases Camp hit prettily to
center and Letton and Greenway came
in. Yale was finally retired by sullivan
striking out. He had been put in Wal
lace's place in the sixth. Yale's hopes
were now at their highest, but they
were born only TO be shattered
In the eighth Mr.. Fincke went back
to his old practice of giving the first
man up a base on balls. He even went