New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24
BRICKLEY BLASTS
HOPES OF YALE
FOR LAST time
Scores Winning Run for
Harvard at End of Well
Fought Game.
SPECTACULAR RALLY
THRILLS BIG CROWD
Watrous and Whitney Show Well
in the Box, but Latter Is
Best in the Pinciles.
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Cambridge, Mass, June 23.-If ts.,.
is any consolation in defeat the Y,l.
baseball team has it tonight. 70, :.
the ninth inning Of what proved -.
deciding Harvard-Yale game to.S,,
Charley Brickley put in his anal H.,
as the blaster Of athletic hone. q.
Yale. Brickley, who in the two g,n.. ~.
with Yale has laced out six hi, !,
seven times at bat, came TO the scratch
to-day on the diamond as he has Ss,s
so often in football.
Yale was leading Harvard al 2nt
with two out in the ninth inning WIZ.
Brickley drove Harte around 10 =.
plate from first base with the ties,
run with a scorching two-base hit "a
centre field, and a moment later. Wa.
Minnie Frye, also playing his last pam.
for Harvard, as pinch hitter, slashes
single over John Reilly's head
Brickley raced home with the mn
which not only won the game and Ia
series with the New Haven team. bu,
also won for Harvard the distinction
of being champion Of the triangul,,
league, which only this year has bssn
formed, with Harvard, Yale and Prince.
ton as members.
The Crimson beat the Tigers tire.
games in a row, and now has taken two
games from Yale. The teams will NEE,
again in Brooklyn on Saturday. whes
Ned Mahan and Pie Way will probably
face each other again IN the box. b.,
so far as the championship is con.
cerned, that is put away, and by tks
Harvard nine. led by Tack Hardwics
and coached for the last few weeks By
the Crimson's most successful OF foot.
ball coaches. Percy Haughton.
The biggest crowd that ever gathered
about Soldiers Field watched the BATHS
to-day. The Crimson graduates had
little to enthuse over, however, until
the very finish, but this, indeed, Va,
well worth the waiting. Yale almos, q.
the outset of the game secured a 2 ub
lead, when Bush drove a liner out 70
deep left field and into the crowd for,
home run, scoring Vaughn ahead q
him, while Harvard, up 70 tho final i'm.
ing, had gathered its only point in Ii.
fifth. when. with two out, Abbots
double to right field was followed By
Coolidge's single TO centre. ALTHOUGH
there were few runs, it was q hgt,
every inch of the way.
Whitney, pitching for Harvard, was
always in trouble, but managed time
after time to pull himself together and
to throw a damper on Yale's hopes for
bigger lead. Yale's left-hander,
Watrous, was more effective than
Whitney, except when il came down to
the pinch, although he Harvard box.
man ice had the bases filled with
Yale men, and each time was able to
coax the hitter to lift fly to the out.
field.
Harvard once had the bases illsd.
too, this in the second inning, ba.
Reilly made one-hand jumping catch
of Abbott's liner. which would have
meant two good runs and a tie score
for Harvard.
The finish was one OF the most spec
tacular ever seen on the field-almos.
as spectacular, in fact, as was The
wind-up of the Harvard Yale match two
years ago, when Hardwick tied up the
1913 series with his home run in Ii,
fourteenth inning.
IN the nlntn Gannett, Harvards NV
batter, hit weakly to Watrous, but
Harte waited patiently. and was re-
warGed with q base on balls. Hard.
wick then flied to Reilly, and il seemtd
all off for Harvard, but Brckley drOv.
fierce two-bagger on the first BAL
pitched, and only the fastest Of wofs
by the Yale outfeld saved triple u
not home run. Frye, formerly
pitcher, but now the regular centre
fielder, although cut Of the real ru,'
ming with a lame ankle, was put IN
hit for Reed. For few moments .
looked as if Watrous intended to pass
him, but with three balls Frye laced
hot one to left field and along the fosl
line. Easton made a gallant effort =
get the ball, and almost reached i, G
fell'headlong on the turf. while Brisi'
ley crossed the plate.
The score follows: