New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23
Crowd Of $4,000 Sees Stir.
ring Battle on Diamond
Commencement Day.
MAHAN AND WAY
BOTH PITCH WELL
Crimson Uses Sacrifice with
Success, While Blue Vainly
Tries to Steal Bases.
ny Telegraph to The Tribune J


New Haven, June pa commence
ment day crowd of more than fifteen
thousand persons saw Harvard defeat
Yale by a score Of 4 to 2 on Yale Field
this afternoon.
1t was a perfect day, warm and
cloudless, with just breath of breeze
to stir the flags on the tops of the
stands. The reunion classes reached
the field an hour before game time, and
there was the blare of a score Of bands,
with cheering and singing. The instant
the battle began, however, there was
absolute quiet IN the stands.
The game was one of the most brill
liant in the long series Of diamond duels
between the Crimson and the Blue.
There were sharp fielding, splendid
pitching and hits that made up in
timeliness for their lack of frequency.
Eddie Mahan, for Harvard, had, per-
haps, shade on Way from a pitching
standpoint, but il was almost stand
off.
HarvRrd's defence frightened when
ever the Blue attack threatened. Harte's
throwing was a great factor in this
defensive play, his pegs cutting down
all the Yale runners except Captain
Middlebrook. The victory was the first
Harvard has scored on Yale Field in
four years. Way pitched against the
Crimson here last year and held them
helpless.
Both teams were unsteady at the
start, and FIVE of the six runs were
scored in the first two innings. After
this furry, however, both mines settle
down in grim earnest, and the game
was fought on nearly even terms. HGr-
wards method of attack was to sacri-
fee the runner TO second and third.
The Crimson went about the sacrificing
in a wOrkmanlike manner, and would
have done more harm save for fawless
handling of hunts by Way and Hunter.
Yale employed base stealing instead
Of sacrificing, but Hartes throwing
nullifed this method Of attack, to
which Yale stuck, however, to the end.
This system was particularly disas-
trCus in the seventh inning, when Reil-
ly singled and was out stealing, and
Vaughn followed with a triple on which
he was caught at the plate in a des-
perate effort to stretch the drive.
Way, who has pitched all Yale's big
games, was as fresh at the end as
when he started, while the smiling
Mahan seemed to get better as the bat
tie went on. Way had fine support
from Hunter. The Blue catcher was a
tireless and cheerful worker, threw
faultlessly. caught several towering
fouls, and had a perfect day at the bat.
In the fourth he took Reeds foul fly
almost at the grandstanG and caught
Brickley at second when the football
star tried TO go up a station on the out.
Brickley worried Yale considerably
by making two hits. Besides that he
made a fine catch Of long foul drive
by Vaughn in the sixth. The most
spectacular play Of the day was a won
dorful running catch Of a foul by
Vaughn. The Yale right fielder gath
cred in the ball after a tremendous
run, plunging headlong into the re-
union cohorts as he made the play
Bush was charged with a costly error
Of judgment, supplemented by wild
throw, in the opening frame, but after
that he helded faultlessly. He made a
beautiful one-handed catch of lie Cores
wide throw in the fourth. Middlebrook
had only one put out to-day and made
two wide returns TO the plate on hits
TO his bailiwick. He scored Yale's first
run, though, and made spectacular
steal Of third in the fifth.
A balk by Way in the ninth ad-
vanced lIardwick n base, and might
have resulted in another Crimson run
but for finely executed play by Hunt
or and lie Gore. who retired Brickley at
second, while Hardwick was held at
third on an attempted delayed steal
1t looked as though Hardwick was re.
miss on the play, and Brickley, busting
himself of, looked reproaehfully s,his