The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-19
PRINCETON NOT IN
IT WITH HARVARD
IN FINAL CONTEST
Mahan and His Mates Eclipse
Chaplin and His Support
Both Waste Time.
JESSE HOYT OF NEW YORK
NEW CAPTAIN OF TIGERS
rs WILLIAM n. HANNA.

Harvard beat Princeton at the
Grounds yesterday afternoon In a base
bal, game which thoroughly disproved
the libel that Americans always are IN
a hurry. The score was 8 to 3. Only
nine innings were played. but two hours
and forty-hve minutes were required
20, the playing-consumed. anyway.
They began at . o'clock and finished
some time before we went TO press.
The game was more ornamental than
useful-Harvard already having taken
the series by beating Princeton twice
and not very ornamental. The Grim
son played a good. strong game and ex-
celled in every way the Tigers, for
whom a victory would nave meant
honors largely empty. vacant and hol-
low. The only department In which the
Tigers excelled was In siowness. Their
hrst pitcher, Chaplin, took time by the
forelock and fought II out on that line,
II II did take all day. He wavered ana
was taken out in the sixth lining, but
although he was wild. his wildness was
due more to inexperience than to losing
his grip.
Chaplin didn't pitch a bad game by
any means. Errors opened the way to
q lot Of Harvard's scoring. Either
walks or errors would put a squad OF
Arterialreds on the bases and then along
would come UGH furiosos OF the mallet
as Frye, Gannett or Hardwick to bat
them In. The batting of these three
bore heavily on the result. Coupled
with numerous and costly imperfections
In the Princeton defence 1t doomed the
Orangesandblscks to a one sided drub-
bling.
Douglas OF the Nassau folks was the
only one who twirled an effective baton
against the Harvard pitchers. He rasped
Whitney for one three Dagger and Ned
Mahon for another. Whitney was go
ing alcng well and pitching in work.
manlike style until the sixth inning,
when following a triple he gave two
bases on balls. He was relieved by
Mahan. and the nearest approach to An
exciting stage the game had came to a
close when Reed. with a ~legerdemain
scoop of Kelleher's smoking eraser. set
In motion Q double play. Abbott. Reed
and Nash all helded nicely and Mahan
held the Tigers safe with his speed and
aplomb.
Mahan is a speed boy both AT finxine
and at running. but The third of the
famous football trio. Charles Brickley,
was not anything like as useful to the
Cambridge cause as Hardwick. athlet.
extraordinary or Mahan. The man with
the wizard toe shines far more brightly
with the pigskin than with the horseshoe,
He misjudged two balls TO his field
though the sun was a severe handicap
on him. and thrice mad ribbons OF the
contiguous ether.
4 querulous Tiger on the coaching
lines was set down for barking-Tigers
bark by poetic license-to the umpire 70
sect EN- up" Percy Haughton. o
the baseball coach and the worlds pre-.
mier football coach. wearing the regular
Crimson spangles, mingled with the spec
tators without being recognized. After
having detected early the disparity In
ability between the two teams. he saw
that he could spare himself from the
bench. Disparity was due partly TO de-
fective Princeton tactics. The Tigers
elected to try the squeeze at one time.
although three runs behind. and trying
the double steal with only one out a,
that tuncture also looked like warped
and wabbly judgment. However, thu
skin was of their backs.
II was the curtain for a poor season
for Princeton, generally a Tue on
the diamond. Last night the Tigers
elected their captain for next year. II
is Jesse Hoyt OF New York city. Hoy,
was a pinch hitter yesterday. Part OF
the present season he was incapacitated
by Illness. He plays the outfeld. The
score