New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-10
GIANTS DEFEAT YALE
IN LAST PRACTICE
Find Plenty to Keep Them
Busy, Too, as College
Men Show Speed.
REGULARS GO FULL GAME
Shivering Fans Have Blood
Stirred by Some Sizzling
Plays and CONCEALED by
Some Bad Ones

standing ON the Threshold OF another
baseball season and Keyed up for tho
start Of the 1915 Eennant race. the Giants
ensoyed final practice at the expense NJ,
the Yale team in the shadow of Cougars
Blu0 yesterday. The gaping stands at
the Pco Grounds. where 5000 fans"
reared last october. when the Red Sox
were fighting their way to a hard earned
worlds championship. and where an
ether 25.p2 no doubt. will gather this
afternoon TO greet The Giants i'm their
FIRST engagement with the Boston Braves
were sparsely populated.
Il was cold. the well known showers Of
Auril seemed to have given way to the
equally VOL known breezes of March
Then. too. the Phillies and Superbas were
prcinr OFT the baseball lid in that special
opening over in Brooklyn so that even
the National League champions had 10
content themselves with playing second
for the day at least
Two games We're served up to the shiv-
ering fans. some OF whom turned out to
give q welcome TO the Giants on their
return from the long training trip ana
some others who wanted to see the Yale
team in action. The New York colts
first beat the men from New Haven in d
Gye-inning struggle by score Of . TO !.
and then the real Giants played a fun
nine innings and defeated the same Yale
men by score of > to .
There was action and plenty OF II. and
the college players did not suffer in COM
parison with their more experienced op-
poneHts The errOrs-a goOdly number
were about equally distributed. while
there was little TO choose I'm the hitting.
Amends were made. however. for some
OF the loose fielding by d number OF brill
liant and striking plays, so that the only
thing needed was a little steam heat to
make the contest we'll worth watching.
Dcmarce pitched for the New York colts
and held his opponents to one lone hit.
made by Schoheld. Scot, the Blue pitcher,
Did almost as well. as he allowed only
three hits. one Of which was a sizzling
tWo-bagger by Jim Thorpe. Cooper,
whom McGraw has said looks like the
best outfield prospect since Iris" Speaker
forced his way into the big leagues, also
made a safe drive. while little Groh sol
the oIher.
Red" Ames was in the box for the
Giants when the regulars took the field
and went three innings. in which time the
college men made three hits and one run.
ScLupp. one of McGraw's left-handers.
and the strike-out king in the minors last
wear then took up the work. He was
found for two hits. which. with an error
lut after that the Yale players were as
putty I'm his hands.
Gle was on the mound for the Blue
forces and for FIVE innings he proved as
puzzling as a Walter Johnson or Joe
Wood. He had speed and sharp break
.ng curve that give promise OF placing
him In tho front rank OF college pitchers
before the season is over. Two hits were
an the Giants made in the first 1--WE
- mes, but a base on balls and an error
Jed 10 to one run, while two-bagger by
Fletcher and a wild throw to the plate
bv Blossom accounted for another.
After that the Giants DID better work
with the stick. so that two hits In the
sixth inning and an overthrow at second
b. Hunter the catcher, paved the way
for two runs. while three safe drives IN
The seventh by Shafer. Doyle and Merkle
accounted for one more, which brought
the total up 10 five.
Yale scored one run in the third inning
on two hits and an error, and another IN
the fourth. on a wild throw BY Shafer ana
safe drives from the bat Of 5choheld and
Hunter.
The outstanding fielding feature was an
amazing stop by Reilly, the Yale third
baseman. Snodgrass sent Sizzling
grounder toward left field. and Reilly
throwing himself fun length upon the
ground. stopped the ball with his gloved
hand and. rolling over. touched Big
CHIEF Meyers. who was racing from sec
ond 70 third. At least. the umpire sa1o
no did. and that settled IL, although the
Chief objected stIenuously.
Midbrook also stood out, with SIX put
outs in centre field. Two OF the catches