New-York tribune., 1905-06-18
YALE'S BASEBALL VICTORY
SCORES OYER PRINCETON.
Big Cr0zod Sees Game MARKED by
Nany Thrilling Plays.

A wild demonstration followed the victory OF
Yale over Princeton by score of to at the
Polo Grounds yesterday. The Yale followers
poured down on the field and surrounding the
victorious players, expressed their feelings in
the usual undergraduate way. In the face of the
unrestrained joy of Yale, the Princeton followers
made their way out of the grounds quickly
and quietly a possible. The adherents of the
Orange and Black had been lovally enthusiastic
and hopefully encouraging until the last Prince
ton man had been retired. but then disappoint
Inent came and colors dropped and the Blue
everywhere.
crowd numbering some eighteen thousand
persons watched the game. Each team had
q victory. and on the outcome depended in part
the intercollegiate baseball championship. That
Yale won invests the coming series with Har-
ward with even greater interest.
The game interesting from end to end and
marked by many brilliant plays and slashing
hitting. Yale won through better ail-round work.
both in the field and the bat Byram. Prince
tons great efthander. his best. He
was fairly knocked out of the box in the second
inning and retired in favor of Doyle With
ByraIli out the Princeton fielders seemed 10 lose
confidence and six glaring misplays added not
aezlirtie TO their eventual downfall The Yale
team played championship bail from the start
Jackson pitched an effective game and mis- sup
port was of the best. and the had their eve
the ball when it came to batting Kinney's
home run in the second inning was sashing
drive that brought the crowd to its feet He
drove in two before him and practically
the game then and there Doyle who took
Byram's place in the box had a hopeless task
before him, and while he did fair work the Yale
batters had little trouble in finding him and
added Two more runs before the game closed.
1t was ideal day for the game. The sun
shone hot from cloudless sky, but the air was
tempered by a cool breeze which made for the
comfort of the big crowd. 1t a typical col
lege gathering with color everywhere. The
undergraduates from both Yale and Princeton
were on hand in goodly numbers to lend their
encouragement the teams, and they worked
almost hard the players during the prog
ress of the game There were cheering and cheer
ing and singing and singing, 2nd the sharp,
rafting locomotive" of Princeton always found
an answer in the 'Boca Boola' the long
'rahs' of Yale.
The grandstand was a bower OF color. The
fakIrs had made the most of the occasion,
usual, and the blue of Yale and the orange and
black of Princeton could be had in all shades
and styles. All seemed anxious to pos
sess a distinguishing mark 10 show their SYM
pa thies. and result there was profusion
of color which made the scene pretty one,
women and the sombre clothes OF the men.
Once the cheering sections began to fill there
was noise enough satisfy the most enthu-
sia astic partisan of either Yale or Princeton. The
hearts of the onlookers seemed to be in every
cheer and every song. and opportunity, be-
fore the game after it once began, was lost to
make their presence felt.
Although Princeton was slight favorite IN
the opinion of many experts before the game be-
gan the Yale men asked odds, what
wagering was done among the sportinsly in
clined was mostly al even money.
The cheering broke out in earnest when the
players took the field for preliminary practice.
Then hush settled the big Enclosure as
the first Yale man faced Byram and the umpire
called "Play!
Barnes the first up for Yale, set his sup
porters wild with enthusiasm when he made
short hit TO right feld> which, combined with
Bard's tumble allowed him to reach second.
O'Brien then sent safe fly back of second
base Cook by quick throw to Mclean
caught Barnes. but the ppt-out O'Brien
reached third Kinney then made the third con-
secutive hit by pounding the ball over second
base on which 'Erien scored and Kinney TOOK
second on the throw n Although Cote could
not beat out slow liner to Wells, it nevertheless
erabled Kinney to reach third. Huiscamp's
drive was iuggled by Reid long enough allow
Kinney to cross the plate, and the Tiger rooters
sroaned 1t was plainly evident that Byram
was not in form and, in fact the whole team
seemed to have a bad of rattles, and there
was more reas for gloom when Bowman the
ne-t halter up received base balls Camp
then sent out a pretty hit TO centre field, but
Helms fine throw to the plate caught Huiscamp
Princeton tied the score. however, in their
half of the inning, and tagging spirits rallied
Reid the first batter up, Knocked high fly to
-parnes which the latter caught cleverly. Helm
cot 70 first on O'Brien's low throw TO first Wells
fo,,oyed with a two bagger TO right field and
rse,yn crossed the plate. Wells took third on
passed ball and scored on Jackson's Wild pitch.
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