Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04
YALE BULLDOG PUTS
Up A GAME FINISH
Harvard Routed in Exciting
Ten-Inning Struggle,
5 OF.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

opeCiai bIsPatch 10 L ne Star.
NEW YORK. July a-New York was
again the scene of a notable victory toy
the Yale varsity base ball nine, Harvard
being beaten IN q ten timing game II
the Polo Grounds by a score OF TO q
Not long ago at American League Park
Yale defeated Princeton In tho third
game OF the series. and then. ~ today.
the blue-stockinged players made their
crowning effort In the last inning, break.
ing tie and winning by q strong ana
determined finish. The game with Har-
ward today also was the rubber OF a
series Of three. and It WIS the first time
Yale has vanquished the Crimson on the
diamond in New York since 1893
Having gone eleven years without be-
ing able to accomplish the overthrow OF
the Cambridge foe on neutral grounds.
the sweets Of victory were all the sweeter
for the Yalensians and partaken OF with
additional relish because Harvard had
thrown off the yoke OF defeat by Yale
quently. II was with exuberance unbound
ed that the Yale men after the game
rushed or the field and hoisted Eddie
Van Week the leading luminary OF to-
days contest to their shoulders and car
ried him off the field and wrung the
hand and slapped the back OF Capt. MUIR
ply.
1t was Van Weeks last game for Yale.
and through the years Of toll against
Harvard he never played as tellingly as
ne DID today. Yale would not have won
without him. He started in to pitch.
bat did not have much Of a curve and
speed dispenser. and gave up that po-
sition to go to right field. He made four
once because he was too dangerous a
man to be allowed to hit the BAH Be
sides he batted in a run In the sixth
inning and bore in one in the tenth In
the eighth he made couple of difficult
running catches. 1t was with an aureole
around his head that young Mr. Van
Week bowed himself out of the college
sporting arena
Full Of Interest.
The inevitable waste OF time between
innings and between plays that go with
college battles did not prevent this par
ticular one from being the most inter-
esting college game played here I'm sew
erai years. There was the extra inning
for one thing. and Il was close all tho
way Harvard was two runs ahead ar
one time, but the tallies came hard for
both sides until the tenth inning. when
the Harvard fielding wavered and crack
was the only time when the fielding was
moi AZ steady as could be: steady. II not
fast. $50
Yale played the Same cooa. sure rama
.nat was seen against the Tigers as :
team and as individuals. never iosinr
their grip on themselves or events ~
they arose.
Careful preparation was evident IN THEIR
play and with the individual factor to
see that such preparation WAS not u,ast-
ed. Harvard did fully as we'll IN RI.
moral as well as the manual Qualities
untli the tenth inning and then gaye
way under the pressure.
Merit Some Pitcher.
The Harvard men out-hit Yala hue
were absolutely unable to bunch hits
after Van Week resigned the pitching
berth for fields better suited 70 his ab,i-
ity. Harvard made one hit ana only one
nut In every inning In which Merit
pitched. Merits pitching with men on
bases was strong. and his support always
dependable. Hartford, the Harvard left-
hander. was Knocked out of the hoy in
the sixth inning. and Hicks. who took
MS ms pace; deserved q better fate. He
ana though . couple Of wild pitches by
MIN were costly, errors by his mates
created the situation that made them SO.
AS batting game the frolic was more
games, though the hitting was scattered.
except in two innings. However there
was not a little clean and heavy hitting.
Aronson and Van Week were the stoutest
men with the club. The catching of Cur
rfer and Phflbin was conspicuously good.
barring case of slow thinking by Cur
rier in the tenth inning. when several OF
the Harvard players were ratified
Douoie headers by the professionals in
both New York and Brooklyn had a de-
cided effect on the attendance. There
were about 6OOO persons on hand. nearly
every one OF them Harvard or Yale
partisan. There were plenty OF each to
see that the cheering and song accom-
paniments did not lag Capt Burr of the
foot ball eleven presided over the Har-
ward cheering and never fumbled the
pigskin or missed a punt Harvard had
a band In the foreground. too. and in
music and noise the Crimson quite held
lis own. The Yale undertaken chant
about mo hope for Harvard" and Har.
wards sonorous down with Yale" col.
iided half way between camps and with
h0nors even.
Nothing Doing at Start.
The second eNtra-inning game between
Harvard and Yale this season was nut in
motion with Philbin soaring a fly to
Aronson. The second batter. FEELS. got
on, the Whyfor being a base on balls. but
Murphy was thrown out neatly by Silnons
and Jefferson flied to Briggs. Harvard
bit the dust. one. two. three in the first.
Mallory making clinking catch OF a dy
from Harvey.
The hits began to pop In the second
inning. Van Week hit safely over third
and went on to second on Dana's error.
That was his permanent lodging place,
and CurTier skipped back and plucked
Mallory's foul or the screen, and Briggs
absorbed Sweeney's foul. In the same
inning infield hits by Aronson, Dana and
Briggs filled the bases with red Jerseys.
and with only one out. Was Yale feasedr
Not a Tease. Hartford whacked to JEFF
ferson, who tossed Aronson out at the
plate, and Van Week threw Mclaughlin
out.
Philbin uncoupled q two-bagger to right
In Yale's half Of the third, but the hit
was unattended and Philbin was left on
the midnook. Harvard did better. LAM
gan sent two-bagger to right Then
Van Week went to right field and Mer-
rit to the mound. Harvey sacrificed Cur
rier foated fly to Fels. and Simons
secured right field with a three-bagger
and sent Lanigan home Harvard's next
and last run came In the fifth inning Nc
Laughlfn hit hard over Van Weeks head.
The ball jumped into the bleachers for a
home run. Merit rallied instantly. and
there was nothing more Of consequence in
the inning.
Three Hits in a Row.
~ G.,A