The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-09
COLLEGE ALUMNI PLAY BALL
PRINCETON BEATS YALE BY A
SCORE OF 8 70 4.


dents OF Essex County, n. 1.-THE Old
Boys Put Up . Good Game OF Hail.
With a background Of college uproar,
college pranks and much jocular pre-
liminary advertising, the Yale and Princeton
alumni of Essex county, New Jersey, put
up a game Of baseball on the Orange oval,
Grove street yesterday afternoon, that was
worthy Of the best teams Of the respective
universities and that no professional nine
going need have been ashamed Of.
The game was only for seven innings by
agreement, and Princeton won by score of
a to 4, but up to the fourth inning, when
Yale broke the then uninterrupted goose egg
monotony by getting all her four runs at
cnce, it was nip and tuck and the hottest
kind of work on both sides, with hardly
an error and never run on either side.
Here are the conditions and qualifca-
tons demanded by the recruiting force Of
the Yale alumni team, as set forth in Yale's
printed announcement Of the impending
game:
First-A knowledge Of the general appear
snce of baseball
Second-The ability to dstin suish between
sbaseball bat and golf club.
Third Agility to get out OF the way OF
q line drive.
Fourth-Suflcent nerve to tell the umpire
how the game should be played.
Fifth Ability to run at least as far as first
base on three Dagger, and on a home run
hit to reach second base.
Now the 900 or 1 500 who went to see
that game yesterday and had read this
and lot of other cheefully deprecatory
literature of like nature that was cir
culated in advance Of the event among the
thousands in the Oranges who have got
kh and kin connection with Yale and
Harvard might have got the impression
that they were booked TO see lot Of horse
play and very little OF ball play.
But that is just where they were mis-
taken. On each OF the two mines there
were three crack players who had shone
on the university teams. There was, for
instance, A. N. Hirsch, "Boola" Hirsoh
the famous Yale University pitcher, who
acted as captain and pitcher for the Yale
alumni nine. Then on the Yale team
besides Hhsch there were Joe Quimby,
shortstop, and Frank Quimoy, cltcaer
btoh of whom had -done time on the Yale
University nine. The other Yale players
we're Brewer Eddy. who is pastor Of Con-
gregatonal church In Orange and who
made as spry and sure third base as WAS
ever seen on any field; Bass Brigham,
center field; Russell Colgate, first base;
p P. Smith, LETT field; Austen Colgate,
right field and Goodman, second base.
Princeton, on the other hand, had among
her elect the great and only Underhill
j. H. Harriso n, sometimes known as Beef"
Harrison and 4, D. ~. HbstGhings al & them
baseball academy. Underhill was cap
tain of the alumni nine and played second
base; Hutchings played third base, and
Beef" Harrison was pitcher, and a very
experts rt s to hit The others Of the Princeton
G. H. Cheney center field; F. Smith.
catcher; Fred Ludlow. left field; A. Free
man, right field, and Brown, first tase.
There was some little preliminary bicker-
ing. in the matter Of umpires. and the police
had to be called in twice before Eddie
Burgess of Harvard, who was down on
the program as the real bona fde boss
umpire got the feld. all to himself. The
standing are these: r. F.. Amin was the
umpire selected by Princeton, and be was
promptly at his post OF duty dressed in his
best suit of clothes, with q fine shiny. high
OF skirt-really beautiful garnent-a new
but not gaudy pair Of scarlet gloves and as
fine cane as ever an umpire carried in his
hand. Yale went first to the bat. and Umpire
done it noble.
Three Yale strikers went out in one. two,
three order on strikes just as fast as Beef
Harrison could get the balls in for Umpire
pire Amin was disentangled from the mass
OF Yale population that was on top OF him
for several minutes and was being trundled
on the grounds with the collar of his fine
irockk coat hunched away up the back Of
trundling him had his grip, it was explained
that the friends Of Yale had thought they
detected tendency to bias in favor Of
Princeton in Umpire Annins decisions.
But Yale had a reserve umpire of its |
Heald was not so overwhelming in the |
matter of clothes a. was Umpire Amin, |
but he went straight to his fate without
a murmur, receiving sympathetic hand
as he me rched fearlessly to the front. When !
the Princeton riot following Umpire Heald's
first decision was subdued. and Umpire
Head was disentangled from the wreclage
was decided to fall back permanently on
Boss Umpire Eddie Burgess and begin
the game all over again. Boss Umpire
burgess wore green double breasted
wastcoat and coat and trousers Of q
not once during the game did he lose the
light Of his cigar or weaken by so much
as a hair over any turnult his decisions
stlrfed up.
Back by the scorers stand Princeton.
out Of consideration for the feelings Of
Yale, had a black coffin on trestlee and
bearing floral tribute tied in vide ribbons
OF Yale blue 1t was inscribed on both
sides June Sd. 1905. Princeton. Is; Yale, O."
1t was a delicate reminder Of the result
of the last Yale-Princeton game and was
80 highly appreciated by the Yale rooters
that they made a rush for 1t just as half
dozen lunches of frecrackers were sput-
ttering and swapping in its, interior. where
the, remains were supposed to be. Coffin
and trestles were borne to the ground and
the trestles were BADLY smashed. Loving
Princetonian hands restored them however,
and put the coffin hack on them, with the
noral tribute on the coffin. When the
game was over in favor of Princeton, pail
bearers wearing black and yellow mourning
bore the mortuary receptacle about the
grounds chanting, yale, Yale you can't
play ball; what the deuce do we care, what
the deucs do we care while the Yale billy
goat mascot, decorated with broad blue
ribbons, and the Prinoeten stuffed tiger
mascot brought UP the rear Of the process
sion.
But there had been some high art ball
playing before all this came about, and the
thousands OF Yaleits and Princetonian
rooters on the benches were waving flags