The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-14
CHARGES OF DISL.OYALTY.

Yale Undergraduates Scored by the
Alumni Weekly.
The undergo duate body of Yale
comes in for very harsh criticism and
the chargs of disl5yalty to the universe
tvs traditions in an editorial of the
Alumni Weekly, which has just appear
ed. The editor states that the great
feature of the baseball season, which
closed with The final game with Harvard
in New York, and the worst feature of
1t was the Standardization of the coll
lege."
Continuing 1t is said that There were
conditions which made it easy for this
insubordinate spirit to show itself but
that did not excuse 1t, nor did it excuse
the right minded men for not suppress
ing It, At Yale the captain Is king; at
Yale the common creed has always been
that the king can do no wrong That
creed was attacked and in part over
thrown this past season. The best judy
ment of the captain, backed by advice
from the best baseball experts and con-
CURED in by the baseball men of the
college, was declared unsound, was i'm
peached in common conversation and
through public criticism; and was fin
ally made the occasion of what was
practically open revolt at a champions
ship game on the Yale diamond"
THE demonstration of June 2 (when
Cunha was cheered as he succeeded Sui
Ivan as catcher in the sixth inning)
was a disgrace to the university, The
number of men who Joined in that dem
onstration for one player against anoth-
er, was not majority or nearly ma
jority, of the students of Yale, but it
was enough TO show that the unity of
Yale was broken, If the spirit had been
as it has been in the days of Yale's best
efforts. and as It must be in the future,
that demons ration would have been
impossible. Some men excuse it on the
ground that public criticism had been
so bitter. and wild, and general that it
was not strange that many had been
misls d. But in other days writer's could
say what they would, outsiders could
attack in any way they pleased or with
any weapons which they elected to use,
and Yale sill stood with firm ranks
behind her leaders and followed with
confidence
1T was against human nature to be-
lieve that a team, with a knowledge of
that feeling behind them, could come
up to their best. This is not said in
excavation Of the team, nor do it's
members call it a reason for its de-
feats. But it is fact that Yale's fail
ure in baseball this year lies at the door
of each member Of the college who did
not do everything in his power to stay
the hands Of the captain and to encour-
age his players.
AS Is practically invariably the case
events proved the wisdom of the de-
cisons of those who knew all about the
merits of the different players. The
player against whom so much criticism
was launched made his base every time
he came to the lat in the Harvard
game, and did the longest hitting of the
to the last the man in whom
coach ard captain had absolute conf
dence, and the one whom all the play
ers were best sa' isfiad to see taking the
ball or coming to the plate in close
quarters. The other side of the picture
we do not care to dwell on. The college
has in our opinion. already learned its
lesson.
Tire lesson of the baseball season of
1900 must be taken to heart, if Yale Is
to regain the place she ought to occupy
in Intercollegiate athletics"