New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-20
YALE WINS BASEBALL
SERIES FROM HARVARD .
fantures Second Game at Cam
bridge by Some Clean,
Hard Hitting,
CRIMSON LEADS AT START
naptain Merritt Drives in Win
ming Tally for the Blue and
Later Clinches Game
with a Home Run.
,Bv Telegraph 70 Inc Tribune

cambridge, Mass. June BIN a game
that IN no way suggested the awful fasco
IN Yale Field Yesterday the Yale baseball
team defeated Harvard her to-day by a
score Of to .. and 50 captured the series.
The day vas perfect, and huge Harvard
commencement crowd had visions Of VIC
enry VI 10 the seventh inning and a third
ssna IN New York on saturday
The Vale batters. however fell on Bartolf.
.bo has been specially saved for this game,
and pounded out enough runs to win Ivy
clean hard hitting.
Iartveu was in the hoN for Yale. and ne
allowed Harvard only seven hits. three II
which were punched in the fourth inning
FOR the only runs the Crimson made. Tie
kent tho opposing batters lifting the ball
INTO the air and was steady every minute,
not giving them a base on balls.
For seven innings Bartolf held Yale 10
two singles and 1t was after one OF these
that an error ~ Wingatc, the Harvard
fborfstop. allowed the only Yale man 10
reach third base. In the seventh and ninth
innings. however. Vale got after Bartot
with vengeance In tho former, with che
man out. two singles we're followed by a
triple and two more hits. The product II
this vss three runs in the ninth inning,
after hit by McGhie. Captain Merritt
rounded out a home run to left field which
nut the game still further beyond Har-
wards reach.
The Yale leader had q great day TO fin
ish his college career. for It was his single
IN tire seventh inning that brought IN what
proved 10 b. the winning run. His drlv'
IN. the ninth was one Of the longest ever
seen on Soldiers Field.
both teams were i'm far better form than
yesterday 81 New Haven, the three errors
made being inconsequential, while there
were many brilliant bits of fielding.
The Harvard litters had their eyes on
the ball. but swung under 81 continually. so
that sixteen retired on files. Gross, the
left fielder, and Hartwell were the only
Tale men who did not make hits off Bar
tolfs delivery. McGhie leading with two
singles and 2 triple that sent in two runs
10 Tie the score in the seventh inning.
Before Yale tied the score, Harvard lost
the services Of its veteran catcher, Reeves
"
a foul tip Young finished the game and
did well, the change not hsndicappinz Har-
yard
Bsrtolfs work for the first two-thirds Of
the game vas as good as It was STEADY.
He used a nice change OF pace, and MS
halls broke nicely over the inside corner.
After the seventh inning. however, he
weakened or else the Vale men solved MS
delivery.
Yale went out in order for the first three
innings. and Harvard did not get man
10 first until Gibson singled in the third,
only 10 be left on second. in the fourth
2 Cornish opened with a clean hit for Yale
took second on Gross sacrifice, and third
when wingate lost a bounder from Reilly
The last named stole second, but Babson
made a beautiful catch Of BENEFITS foul
on which Gross had more than an even
chance to score, but did not even draw 4
throw Then Riddell popped Up fly for
Reynolds
In Harvard's half two runs came over
after Babson had fouled to Burdett. Potter
singled TO left and got an extra base on
Gross's error. Clark brought the Harvard
captain home with q hit. and scored him
self when Reeves doubled.
At the start Of the seventh Wingate
made q. brilliant catch OF Reilly's fly far
back OF second, and then Yale's fusillade OF
hits began. Bennett and Riddle singled In
quick succession, and both raced home
when NcGhie laced the hall just out OF
Potter's reach and landed on third base.
Captain Merritt then hit past Wingate,
scoring McGhie. Burdett also got HIT
hut Bsrtolf ran Hartwell out and then
esde fast play on a hard smash from
6sTnish
In Harvards eighth Wingate opened with
stvo-bagger and went 10 third on Wiggles-
vorths sacrifice. Babson failed 20 do bet
Ter than lift his fourth fly near the plate
and then Hsrtwell struck out Bob Potter.
,, In the ninth McGhie drove single 10
short right field for Yale, and Captain
Merritt hammered the ball among the
automobiles In deep left field for the cir
cult