New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-14
Blue Nine Plays So Well
That One Run Is the
Margin of Defeat.
HARD HITTERS NO
TERROR TO PIE WAY
Holds New York Men to Five
Hits in Seven Innings and
Shows Rare Skill In Box.
Bv HAYWOOD BROUN.

Billy SUNDAY says that the colleges
leave reverence out OF their curricula.
which may explain why Yale tore at
the Giants yesterday as II the profess
SIGNALS had been so many Harvard
men.
The students OF Johnny McGraw pre-
vailed over Artie Hadley's pupils. but
the margin Of victory was only TO !
in seven innings. II was the closest
game which Yale has played against
the Giants since Dutch Carter downcd
the big leaguers way back in the dim
DAYS before Matty came TO the Polo
Grounds. 8,
The closcness Of the contest need
not alarm local rooters unnecessarily,
for McGraw's freshman team won
from Yale's substitutes by 20 0.
Yale hit Poll Perritt not very hard
and Bill Ritter hardly at all, but Pie
WAY was Just as effective In curtaillng
the activities of the Giants, allowing
onlv Eve hits. Way was not in the
least frightened when facing hitters
such as Doyle, Merkle, Burns, Snod-
grass. Fletcher and Meyers. Even the
forbidding figure Of Jim Thorpe failed
20 terrifv, but then he was probably
ignorant OF Jim's record as a pie raid
or. Just the same jim got only crust.
Yale's efficiency was not concentrat-
Cd entirely in the box. Captain Mid
dlebrook. the centre fielder, made two
astounding catches in deep territory.
Mcrkle and Thorpe suffered thereby
The Giants scored twice in the first IN
ming. Snodgrass walked and came
home on Larry Doyle's triple TO right.
Iobert lined to Legore, and when
Fletcher hit to Way Doyle was run
down between third and home. Fletcher
reached second during the progress OF
the play and scored easily enough
when Fred Merkle doubled.
In the fourth Yale had fine .oppor-
4unitv 10 tie the score. II was in this
inning that the college men made their
fret and only run. and they might
Lave nroduced more if Poll Perritt
had not hardened his heart and &C
tolerated his pitching. Poll was hit
safely three times in succession. Le-
gore doubled and Easton ran for HIM.
Reilly's single sent Easton TO third,
and when Vaughn beat out an infeld
tan he scored and Reilly reached sec
ond. Bush moved the runners up with
q sacrifice, which was handled by Mer-
kle and Doyle. 49,, >.
Bv this time Perritt had begun to
feel a profound respect for higher
education. He bent the ball now ana
found these crooked lines 70 be surer
and shorter route to given point IN
the catcher's mitt than his previous
straight segments had been. hunter
struck out, and Way also swung III
vain. IL.
Much NAV q man gather at college
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students do not seem to learn how 10
hit curves. Ritter. using tremendous
speed. had little difficulty IN dispos-
inc Of his opponents in the last three
innings. He struck out six men.
As soon as the first game ended the
second team Of Giants took the helo'
This is the nine which won seventeen
Games and lost only one while barn
stornoing in the South. Harvard Ed
die Grant, the captain Of the young
Giants, went to his position Iouoly
,yhistling Cup the Street" or some
other unneutral ditty Of his alma ma
ter. al always did hate Yale man,
he said Let's get after them.
Wav had done a days work by Lhls
time and there were several otnet
changes in the Yale combination when
seemed 70 be not for the best. More
over, the young Giants are prooaDIy
plavinc better baseball right now than
their elders.
Walsh. the Yale pitcher, was not HIT
hard, but he was an uncertain fielder,
and his support was wabbly. Stroud
and Palmero found the collegians no
very stubborn foemen. Stroud famed
seven batters in four innings and Pal
nero struck out six in three In the
sixth the Cuban famed the side with
eleven pitched balls.
Rhett. the Yale third baseman, wore
big trimmed spectacles at the bat and
IN the field. Possibly they helped him
to see the ball shoot by.
George Burns played his first full
game since his injury and favored his
Injured leg only a little.
The scores follow;