Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14

We must not write an article
Or tell what we may think,
We must not talk in magazines
Or dip our quilts in ink:
We must not with the editor
Be seen. or we shall spoil,
For only those are amateur
Who do no kind of toll.
Harvard and Yale will meet to settle
the base ball issue June is at New
Haven. June II at Cambridge, and IN
case of a tie. June 20 in Boston.
The base ball contests between these
two old rivals last year were of the
very closest character. Yale won the
college championship by Keeling. of
something like seventeen games straight.
and defeated Princeton in ten innings
at New Haven. to 3: then played
six-inning unfinished game at Prince
ton. to 0, and followed it with another
game at Princeton. which was not de-
cided until twelve innings had been
played. Yale then winning, to 4. But
In the Yale-Harvard series. Yale won
the first game. 2 to 0. at New Haven:
Harvard the second. in fourteen in
nings. at Cambridge. to 2. and Yale
the deciding game In New York s to
8. This year conditions are considerably
altered. Harvard has had an early rec
ord of far higher standard of play
than last season. while Yale has been
playing a game of decidedly in-and-out
character.
The first four batters in the lineup of
the Harvard nine have certainly done re-
markablv good work with the stick
Nash. Wingate. Clark and Ayers are hit
ting. the ball hard and making it I'M
comfortable for any pitcher. In fact
II is the batting of Harvard this year
that is winning it its way to the top.
1t seems extraordinary that coaches of
college mines do not realize this and
spend more time on the batting. Wher-
winning nine, and vet coaches allow
their men to slump in batting In mid
season. and instead of abandoning all
fielding and concentrating on this weak
ness. they go on allowing the damage to
become more and more serious. Lack of
confidence results. and what is promised
to be a championship nine goes dropping
down the list with startling rapidity.
Penn and Harvard have headed the list
this year in work with the stick. but it
has been of two different types. Penn
has some hard hitters. but all of them
can hit the ball. and when a squeeze play
is needed their bunting Is perfect Har-
ward hits them out harder and is not as
expert in the bunting game. Both meth
DDS are. however. of the same principle.
namely. that college nine should win
its games largely with its batting: that
there is no remarkable difference in two
college mines as the game goes in the
fielding. day out and day in. so that the
chances of victory rest largely on the
ability to hit. 1t was that which distin-
Ruished Yale's nine last year throughout
and at the end 1t slid off somewhat. This
year it has had some sporadic f1urries of
hitting but for the most part has been
extremely weak IN that end of the game,
reneatedly in contests having the oppor-
tunty to bring two runs home with hit
with no one out or one out. and still
leaving men marooned on the bags.
Mahan did the pitching for Harvard
against Princeton. and kept 1t down In
the Cambridge game to five hits, and 1t
looks as If he will be difficult man for
Yale. He has given few passes.
1t was the taiI-end of Princeton's bat
ting list that did the effective work with
Bolton. Wall and Deyo punching their
hits and obtaining Princeton's only run
Vale. as already stated. has been far from
reliable with the bat during the season,
and while occasionally there have been
brilliant streaks of fielding there have
also been some shocking errors. Yet the
nine, with one or two exceptions, Is of
the same makeup as the aggregation that
ran OF such consistent string of vic
tories last year and. therefore. there Is
the ever-springing hope in the breasts of
its supporters that 1t may come back.
Yale put UP a splendid game in the Penn
contest at New Haven. but even then II
was not enough to defeat Pennsylvania s
squeeze play. which in the twelfth inning
brought victory.
Yale has developed en- additional pitch
er in Way, who has filed in the gar
well. Gle has pitched one or two ex-
cellent games, notably Penn and Holy
Cross. but was hit hard at Cornell and
, at fatal moment in the Princeton game
at New Haven. and neither he nor Brown
has seemed up to the standard of las,
season. On the whole, then. it looks as
II Harvard should enter the contest as
favorite.
One of the most interesting tenni!
matches that ever was played in thi.
Crescent Athletic Club in 1902 The Amer
lean team finally won, but the contes
between Larned and Doherty was full o.
thrills. The day before, previous to tn,
rain. Larned had taken two sets from
Doherty. On the next day the dry cour
and the sunshine apparently brought bacl
Doherty's skill and confidence. With tive
sets at love against him. the Englishmar
PLAYED as though the match were just be
ginning. Larned struggled valiantly, bu
seemed always to be forced and neve
able to catch up. The score went tire,
all and then the Engiishman took tn.
next three games with lightning rapid
ity. In the next set Doherty got gam,
ahead and then each player won his serv
ice until the end. giving the Englishmal
the set at 6-f. although in the last gam
I.arned. fighting desperately. STAYED o.
defeat until the scorer had actually Gale,