New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27
Undergraduates and Alumni a
Unit in Restoring Team to
Contending Position.
CAPTAIN AGAIN SUPREME
Inspired by Methods That Won
Glory in Other Years, Stu
dent Body Is Furnishing
Winning Material.

thrown off what some nave been pledSeo
10 call the lethargy Of inactivity of the
last decade. and has come out almost en-
masse TO support the nine and those VINO
are working so hard TO put baseball at
Yale In the place il occupied in the old
days
1t is a long. long time since the Blue
could boast Of team so we'll grounded
in the fundamentals Of the game. so well
balanced and withal fast and agrees
sive. Frank Quinby who accepted the
task as head coach year ago, has build
ed well. II results up to this time can
be derended on. John J. McGraw and
other good critics have not hesitated to
say that only accidents will rob the team
OF the honors Of the season
Only two games have been lost to date,
one TO the Giants and one TO Pennsyl-
vania on the Southern training trip, while
"A number Of sterling victories have been
won. including three over the New Haven
team OF the Eastern Association. 1t Is
almost impossible to pick a flaw In the
team as II now takes the field.
Gle. Buster" Brown and Scott make
up the nucleus of remarkably strong
pitching staff. Burdett ranks among the
good catchers of the college world. The
linheld. made UP Of Riddel Cornish, Cap
tain Blossom and Reilly, would do credit
10 many a professional team. while the
outfelders, Pumpelly. Middlebrook and
Schofleld, cover acres of ground and bat
with the best.
Apart from the team itself. the most
significant thing about this baseball re-
vival at New Haven is the fact that men
who played fifteen and twenty years ago
championship days at Yale-are again
taking an active interest.
The "old grads" are back in the hsr-
ness. this time as advisers, and their re-
turn means that Yale baseball. after four
teen more or less lean years, has gone
back to the stern old school which Gre
ated IT, Whether the Blue wins or loses
while the transition period is on. every
player who earns his "Y" under the pres
ent regime will bear the brand of the old
Yale fighting machine.
The captain again is king. Undergrad
yates and alumni are solidly behind HIM
Yale has a permanent and paid coach,
81. loo cage has been built, and the I'M
dergraduates have. or will have, plenty
Of diamonds on which TO play.
II there is any one particular theory In
effect at Yale to-day it spells Work
The player who prefers a weekend whirl
TO the daily grind may take It. but he
takes his playing toys with him and goes
for all time. There is no appeal. Tho
man who is chosen 10 lead the baseball
team is dictator. What was good enough
in 1898 is considered plenty good enough
for 1913. and to the "old grad" coming
back to New Haven this renewal of the
traditional spirit is hailed with delight
Students Are Aggressive.
Yale Field begins TO look like a great
city's playground, when every piece of
turf large enough for diamond is occu-
pied by bunch Of perspiring players
equally intent upon clicking" each other
as are opponents in a worlds series.
There Is an aggressiveness among the
players which has not been noticed in
years. A major league player no longer
holds the captains hand and directs the
members Of the team like so many mani
kins. The players are being taught the
game TO think for themselves and to
fight n out to tho last inning.
Every player picked for the varsity
squad has TO work TO stay there. It is
sths Same with the freshmen, and in adj
;dition to these two groups there may be
seen daily at practice teams from the
,eophomore. Junior and senior classes in
academic. and tho junior and senior
classes IN Sheffield, together with a Sec
ond freshman team-six additional feed
lers for the varsity. Each group Will
series, the members OF the winning team
Ireosiving their numerals and individual
banners or cups.
Then, in addition to the regular league
series of games. each Of these teams has
Its opportunity against the varsity and
freshman from time TO time. All this Of
ifords q spirit OF keen rivalry and compe-
ltion- As players in the game show the
.uecessary spirit and ability they are ad-
AAnced to the second and varsity and
rkiven every chance to forge ahead.
Those on the varsity and second who
roo not keep pace with their rivals for
position are relegated TO the class teams.
Players Of Intercollegiate fame and stall
lwart figures 10 the major leagues have
Icome out OF this school In the past. and
ftueIe 1b nO EcdSOH why ~ tdlllOt pIOuuCt
more In the future. Yale began 10 make
baseball history as early as 1876 and for
twenty years there was nothing but blue
on the college baseball map. Avery. 10,
was Yale's first really remarkable pitcher,
and later came tho great Hutchinson. 70,
who subsequently was National League
star at Chicago under Arson.
Carter Was Q Marvel.
In the early sos the first Carter bobbed
up on the baseball field at New Haven.
II Carter had turned his attention to pro-
fessional baseball the world by now would
have heard much more about him. for
Carter, the first is the only Yale pitcher
who ever shut out Harvard without hit.
Carter chose 10 rest his athletic honors
,inon this distinction. and is now a clergy