The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-07
YALE DEFEATED PRINCETON.


 Fine Game of Basket Ball at the Gym nasium Last Night
 The Yale university basket ball team l last night defeated the Princeton Fig | CTS in the Yale gymnasium by the score 1 of 26 to 20. This victory gives the Yale l team quite lead in the race for the championship and the prospects for | winning are very bright. There is still ! q prospect of Yale being tied by Prince ton, but no chance of losing the cham pionship unless the team should per | chance lose in playing off this prospec' tive tie. Yale has thus far won five and lost two, while Princeton has won 1 three and lost the same number. Yale | has still one game to play and that with Harvard, while Princeton hal still to meet the Harvard and Columbia | hves. The game between Princeton and | Harvard will be played tonight i'll | Cambridge. Should Princeton win both games with Harvard and Columbia, and Yale lose to Harvard the two teams will then have the chance to fight for the championship.
 Last nights game was one of the most interesting from a spectators s standpoint ever played in the gymna- | sium The teams were quite evenly matched so far as the men were con cerned, but it must be conceded that l familiarity with the floor assisted the Yale team to some extent. The play | ing during both halves was fast and at times there was an inclination by play CTS of both teams to be rough and many l fOl1IG a1I1a1 in n ! this respect the greater number were called against Princeton, and Yale must attribute five of her points to goals from fouls all thrown by Cotton. Some of the playing in the first half was list | less, but there was a sprlnkling of team work, which added to the interest. | One play, which was especially good, l was where after a series of passes | around the floor the ball was passed to | Hyatt, one of Yales forwards. and he threw the bail backward over his head and secured a goal. This half ended with the score F to in Yale's favor. This was a good lead to start the | second half with, and several goals 1 were thrown in quick succession by the 1 sons of Eli until it seemed that the re- mainder of the game would be a walk over. This was a mistake, however, l because the Princeton team took a 1 splendid brace and threw three goals 1 with a rapidity that was somewhat | startling. The closeness of the score | seemed to cause the Yale men to real 1 ize that their best efforts must be used if a victory was to be secured From that time on the Yale team played fast CT and better ball than they have at any previous time this season, and | fairly ran the Tigers off their feet. l It was gratifying to followers of the l Yale team to notice the improvement made since the game with Harvard in 1 the gymnasium several weeks ago. i There is still room for improvement ! and one noticeable feature is the fail- ure to hold the ball when passed to l them. A number of such fumbles were l costly ast night and in a closely con- l tested game might cause a defeat This | feature can easily be eliminated as it 1 is only matter of being little more careful
 1 Tn the second half last night Wright son, one of the forwards on the Prince 1 ton team, lad the thumb on his right hand strained and retired from the game, being succeeded by Carter.
 The line up and score was;
 { Yale Princeton
 Forward
 ! Hyatt Wrightson
 Forward.
 Cotton, Carter, Lansdon
 Center.
 ] Weymouth Whitehouse
 Guard,
 | Lockwood captain, Mccoy
 Guard.
 Morehead Roper
 Goals throWn--By Welmouth 1, Col ton 1, Hyatt 3, Morehead 2, Wrightson l. Langdon 1, Carter 1, Whitehouse 3. Folus thrown-By Colton 5, by Wright son 9 Final score-Yale 26, Princeton 20. Of1cials-Velte of Trinity, referee; Peckham of Stamford high school um- pire. Time of game-Two twenty min
 The Princeton team was accompanied 1 by Trainer Jim" Robinson and As l sistant Keeler. The former met quite a number of Yale men with whom he was associated while in charge of the Yale athletics. He expects to have an exceptionally good baseball team at | Princeton this year.