Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-15

New Haven, May 14.-Yale seems to have baseball nine after all, judg- ing from the last few games at the field and the two games In the past week have shown that as a whole the team is getting into mid-season form not championship form, however, by
 any means, yet. In the Pennsylvania game Saturday, which the visitors won
 in the twelfth inning. to Q, the fastest and cleanest game on the field this year was played. Yale had two chances of scoring and in both the final punch that would have brought in the run
 was lacking. In the eighth, with two Yale men on base and one out. ale
 was retired, Gile being struck out and
 Falsey flying out to the field In the
 tenth inning Cornish reached thlrd,
 the first and only Yale man to reach
 that base and here again with only one
 out Sayre held the Yale batters to
 easily handled hits. In the twelfth.
 Haley hit safely 'over second. Then
 Irwin followed with bunt, Gile hit
 him with the ball as he was making
 first and while Pumpelly was recover
 ing the ball Irwin took second and
 Haley went in to third. After Gile
 struck out Minds, Williams laid down
 short bunt and on the squeeze play
 Haley came in with the winning run.
 In the Yale half the men flied out in succession.
 In the game with Dartmouth, We'd
 
 in defensive work and the fielding was
 almost perfect, excepting a foul muffed
 by Reilly at short. but the batting was
 poor and the base running was not heady. Falsey, who leads Yale's bat ting order, struck out three times and John Reilly. who has had the fattest batting average of them all didn't make a hit. The score of 2-1 was not encouraging under the conditions. but all along through the nine innings Al e-Tz N1- hi would have broken up the game for the visitors And the indications are that Yale will develop this little bit more before many more games go by. 1t is found probable by the Alumni Weekly, judging from the present state of affairs, that Yale will have not a single veteran oarsman in the varsity four mile race against Harvard in June. This unprecedented situation, | it goes on to say. has its most regret I table side, inasmuch as few Yale ath- l themselves or decided important Ques- tons with such fine spirit as Capt. Denegre of this years crew Gradu- | ates everywhere appreciate his efforts | to put Yale rowing back on. a solid | bottom and trust that he will be able ! to continue as the crew leader and captain, although his condition may not permit him to catch up in his place in the regular boat. Many of | Denegre's friends are expecting to see | him again in the first eight.
 | Another event in the annual regatta | at New London is endorsed. by the ! Alumni Weekly. The system under | the new coaches work this year has 1 been largely after the "two-varsity- eight plan, whereby a. second boat is maintained to balance as far as pos | sfble the first eight and serve, just | as the second team in football, for | the first squad to try themselves out l on. It is to this second eight that | Captain Denegre has been reduced but the result of the spring regatta ! Friday afternoon, showed that the margin between the boats is small | Indeed And it is to give this second eight, which needs for its greatest ef- | ficiency to be kept until the Harvard