The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
Chances Good for Victory of
Ellis Against Princeton in
This Afternoons
Game.
BOTH TEAMS IN FINE FETTLE
First of Final Series of Contests Be-
tween Rivals of Years Standing,
Tad Jones and Eddie
Dillon.

Interest in the baseball game be-
tween Yale and Princeton this after
noon is at a higher pitch than has
existed before any first game of a SER
les for the past decade. The defeat Of
Brown by the score of to 0 on .he
part Of Yale did great deal to raise
confidence in the Ellis and the falling
Of Princeton before Penn. State
showed that the Orange and the Black
even as late in the season as this, is
not invincible.
The results of these two games has
caused the sale OF seats to run up
higher than ever before by at least
5000 Last night 5000 seats had been
sold and there was an increasing dc-
mand Every seat in the covered
stand is gone and most of the seats
in the bleachers. The sale of the
covered stand seats has given rise to
further demand for automobile
spaces and there are only ten of .hese
left. Several cars which will have
these specially good places to over
evening and arrived here early this
morning. Among the most prominent
was Frederick Vanderbilt, '76, who
has been one of the most generous
donors to Shelf. Other persons whose
care will be back Of center field are
c. f. Van Week of Montclair, the
father Of the Yale pitcher, Eddie"
Van Week; Howard Swan of New
York, John Mitchell of Norwich, r.
c. Lincoln of Hartford. IT, c. Platt
of New Britain, e. .R. Spencer Of
Guilford, T. J, Camp of New York,
d. B. Thompson of New York, C. S.
Johnston of New York.
The Yale team through the Brown
game has shown its hitting possibil-
ties, and the men are not afraid to
meet Heyniger, the great Princeton
twirler. Yesterday they had a final
batting practice, and kept up the
speed set Wednesday This morning
the team will go to the Country club
and remain there until luncheon time,
after which they will go directly to
the field.
Outside the apparent closoness, the
contest will be interesting because Of
the fact that 1t is one of a last series
of games in which Tad Jones, the
Yale captain, and his old rival, Eddie
Dillon, the Princeton second baseman,
will meet. To be defeated by any
team, Jones would deplore But to
have a team of which he is captain
defeated by team on which Dillon is
always an important factor, would be
a fate too terrible to realize. The
rivalry between Dillon and Jones be-
gan when they were at AndoYer and
Exeter. Both played football there
and both were quafterbaeks, Dillon at
Andover and Jones at Exeter. Fhey
never met as first string quarterbacks
in prep, school days, for in Jones
final year at Exeter, the only year lie
was the first string quarterback, Dill
Ion declined to play on Andover for
some Partially on his team. But It
was different in baseball Jones was
captain at Exeter and Dillon played
on the Andover nine. On several oc-
casions they met and the meetings
were not always harmonious
After finishing the preparatory
school courses Dillon went TO Prince
ton and Jones came to Yale Both
soon manifested their ability as quar-
terbacks and were seen to be of ALI
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