Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-10
YALE TAKES TIGER
SERIES AFTER II
RED-HOT INNINGS
This Was First Time in Is
Years Blue Had Won in
Straight Games.
CONTEST BRISTLED WITH
SENSATIONAL PLAYING
Eli Has Now Undisputed Right
to Claim intercollegiate
Championship.


For the first time IN eighteen years
Yale has defeated Princeton In both
games Of the championship series.
The Ellis captured the second game AZ
Tigertown yesterday. After the score
had been tied three times on hair
raising plays Yale succeeded in land
ing the victory at TO IN the twelfth
inning.
Never has baseball been more COM
pieteiy filled from beginning 10 end
with every sensational play IN the
list. from home-runs IN tight places 20
the best Of fielding The Tigers
played well. but their pitchers were
not strong enough TO hold down the
Blue batters at critical times
Princeton's play IN the field was Ear
nearer the championship type than
any that Yale showed and was
marred in the course of the whole
twelve innings only once. but that
misplay entered largely into their de-
feat
For nearly three hours the 5000
Princeton alumni and undergradu-
ates who stayed over for the gains
kept up continual roar of "locomo-
tives" and cheers
''Old Nassau" was resorted to in the
ninth inning. when Yale had taken
one-run lead In its half and two pinch
hitters had failed to do anything
toward sending a Tiger over the
plate. 1t found a man ready in Gill.
who doubled to left field and later
scored on Burdette's error Excite
ment reached such a pitch that "old
grads" who were former cheer leaders
rushed to the front of the sands and
called for cheers till they we're too
hoarse to be heard. The Yale contin-
gent was not large. but II performed
marvels of cheering.
Neither team offered much IN the
way OF high-class pitching. For the
time he was in Gle carried away ali
the twirling honors. and the Els
pounded Rogers for the winning run
Copeland was the first of the Tigers
array on the mound. After one good
inning he was found for two singles
and filled the bases by passing q
third man. Then Wood was rushed
into his place. A fast double play
by WoSthington, who caught Pun
pelly at second and threw Cornish
out at first, let Yale out with only
one run.
Wood was invincible until this
eighth and ninth inning, Yale scoring
one run in each frame. and then
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rest of the game.
Brown got bad start with
single and home run against him IN
the opening inning. but for six
stanzas he held the Tigers under con-
troll until he was found for second
home run in the eighth. Gle war
called upon in the ninth to save the
day.
Princeton took a sensational start
in the opening frame. when Pendle-
ton singled and Rboads followed with
home run drive over the running
track in left field. Copeland's bad
inning let the Blue men push Riddeii
over the plate on two successive hits,
walk and an inf1eld out. Wood
worked along smoothly until Captain
Worthington made Princeton's only
error of the game, which allowed
Reilly, who had walked, to cross the
plate and tie the score.
For two innings neither team could
break the tie. but in the eighth two
singles, a sacrifice and a stolen base
| let Middlebrook score.
| To start the fun for Princeton.
PendIeton led off in its half OF
that frame with a home run 10
the right field stands. Wood gave
Cornish base on balls and let Gle
score him on a clean single in the
ninth frame, but Gill landed on Gle
for double in his half of the period,
and Blossom sent him to third, where
he fumbled Pendleton's hot grounder
He again tied the score for the Tigers
when Burdette missed Reilly's low
throw home on Worthington's
grounder.
Rogers prevented further scoring
until the fatal twelfth. when Middle
brook singled, stole second and third,
and scored on Blossoms infield out.
after Gill had tried for a double BY
throwing to first rather than home.
The Tigers put men on second and
third in their half. but they could not
get beyond these points. The score: