Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-12
Yale and Princeton Graduates
Stumble Through Seven ln-
nings of Near-Baseban.
TIGERS LEAD, 7-6, BUT
SCORE DOESN'T MATTER
Signs of Relief Are Heard by
Spectators When Contest
Comes TO an End.

Comes 10 an Ind.
A Princeton tiger. with its claws
clipped and its tail kinked stumbled
across the path of Yale bulldog thar
had lost its teeth IN South Orange
yesterday afternoon. The result Of
the meeting must be mentioned in
whispers.
The occasion was the animal meet
ing Of the Essex County Alumni Of
the two universities on the baseball
diamond. The game should have
been played two weeks ago, but rain
interviewed. Unfortunately. it failed
to rain yesterday. and few hundred
inonensive persons suffered thereby
during seven innings Of the weirdest
misinterpretation that the national
game has been handed since the grad
yates met last, two years ago.
Princeton won, 7-6, or, Il you pre-
fer, Yale lost, 81. Both teams were
equally culpable.
The peculiar part is that Princeton.
the New Jersey institution, with
graduates sprinkled all over suburban
Essex, couldn't put a fun team in the
field. Eight men were all Nassau
could muster, and TO I'll the gap.
Swenarton, who came up to play for
Yale, was loaned to the Princeto-
mans for service in centre field
Though he played on the Princeton
team he played for Yale.
Both teams wore uniforms. That
is, they didn't play In their street
clothes. A few Of the culprits wore
their old varsity suits. The rest were
attired in any old thing that hap
pened to be lying around the field
clubs clubhouse. Ellicott, who
sinned at shortstop for Yale, had
silk tennis shirt, white duck naval
reserve hat and a pair of football
pants that had served to cushion one
Of the benches in the clubhouse since
two years ago, when they were used
by another le-Princeton alumni
player. Hunting. who was on sec
outfit he had picked up somewhere.
The least said about the rest of the
decorations the better.
Yale had an honest-to-goodness
twirler, Eddie Van Week, OF Short
Hills, who performs these days in the
Metropolitan Amateur League. and
who was a varsity pitcher few
years ago Receiving his offerings
was Pop Hirsh, of Montclair, who
wrote Yale's "Boola Boola" song
Performing a service like that for
ones alma mater naturally covers
multitude of ones sins on the base
ball diamond. A few other persons
who had seen baseball played once
or twice before were also in the Eli
lineup. For instance, there was
Howard Jones. whole salary as head
coach of the football team tops that
OF ex-President Taft as a member Of
the law school faculty. He played
third base almost as though he were
taking part in a regular game.
On the Princeton side Butts" I'm
derhill, of East Orange, ten years ago
great outfelder. pitcher and half
back, shone with particular brilliancy.
He was on first base. made three Of
his teams runs, hit safely thrice in as
many times up and failed TO boot any
Of the fifteen chances he had in the
field. Larry Dowd, the football player
and gymnast of Princeton and
Newark Academy, caught with
green NIT for the Tiger
alumni At least he caught when
he wasn't making passed balls.
wild filings and other such things. He
also caught one of Van Weeks bend
ers on the nose in the third and
knocked a single off the club house
roof with IL. Before the Yale outfielders
decided what to do with the bali
Dowd, who had been tearing around
the bases the way he used TO 60 down
the football field after receiving a
forward pass, was nesting on the
home pan and Mecabe. his battery
mate, and Underhill had come in be-
fore him.
Russell Colgate. Yale's hrst-sacker
and brother of State Senator Austen
Colgate, also completed the circuit.
He didn't intend TO do anything of the
sort, but the guardians of the Prince
ton pastures played pitch and toss
with a fly he sent out TO left in the
seventh, and Colgate just couldn't
] nelp coming uOLne- 1plSdte d4so t16-
ured with Van Week in the only
play in the game which approaches
real baseball. This was in the fourth
session, when Carter was nipped
mapping of first.
Somehow or other the most welcome
news that could have been brought
TO the spectators was delayed to the
last minute. This was the announces
ment that the game would only con-
tinue for seven innings. The seventh
| inning had been half played before
the news was broken. The delay was
caused by the fact that none of the
players could muster UP courage
enough to face the grandstand and
speak up. Pop" Hirsh finally saved
the day, however.
That's about all there was to it. but
cheer up-there won't be another
alumni game for another year. These
figures were discerned through the
smoke of battle.
YALE: PRINCETON