New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-22
HARVARD MAKES
CLEAN SWEEP
OF ELI SERIES
Crimson Takes Game by
d to | COunt-Inheld
Errors Cost Runs.

Cambridge, Mass, June 2l.-Har-
wards commencement holiday crowd
thronged Soldiers Field this afternoon
20 see the Crimson win a second game
over Yale and 20 take its final cham
pionship series with a clean sweep.
There was no such hair-raising finish
ms at New Haven the day before. the
Crimson winning. TO l, always having
the game IN hand.
Yale got its lone run midway through
the game, and for a moment, as in the
eighth inning on Tuesday, was happy
in tie score. Once again, however,
Harvard had an immediate punch to
drre itself ahead, and before the game
was fully six innings old had secured
its full complement OF runs, and then
pushed through for an easy finish.
The game for six innings was a
pitchers battle between Carl Harrison,
n youngster brought up as a finger by
Fred Mitchell this year, and Watrous,
the Yale left-hander, who pitched last
years game on Soldiers Field.
Last season Harrison, whose home
/ is in Cincinnati. was one Of the fresh
men infelders, hut Mitchell has spent
the entire season with him, and to-
day was his first appearance on Sol
diers Field 10 start, or even finish
game.
The youngster went the distance,
Yale's four hits being scattered
through five innings and had it not
/ been for a wild throw past Nash BY
Beal in the fifth Harrison would have
had a shutout TO his. credit
He used his head. and had a well
developed drop ball and a splitter"
we'll under control.
Watrous got through the game with
four hits, but one of these. a double
by Tuesdays hero, Percy, started
things for Harvard's tieing run in the
fifth. In the sixth, with men on third
and second bases. Beal, who drove
home the tieing run at New Haven
yesterday, dashed a clean centreteld
single and sent Harvard's last two
runs dancing across the plate.
Each of the infield errors cost run.
and each pitcher threw wild TO base
in n vain attempt to catch runner
mapping. Otherwise the game was
well played Two fast double plays, IN
which Bothfeld and Abbot figured;
turned Yale back in innings which had
been opened with base hits.
Harvard received a gift Of run at
idge started with a single and was ad-
vanced by Nash. who sacrificed, the
Harvard outfelder swinging clear
around to third base while Armstrong
was fielding the ball to Bush.
Abbot also was passed. and then,
after Harte had famed, the Crimson
runners worked in run on r double
steal, Johnson dropping Munson's
throw, but getting the ball over to
Armstrong in time TO head off Abbot.
Yale had only one man on base for
four innings, Bush getting a hit in the
second. hut only TO be caught Off first
when Shepley's liner travelled straight
to Bothfeld.
In the fifth a run came quickly, Beal
giving two bases 70 Shepley by throw
ing past Nash, Armstrong sacrificing
and Shepley counting on Early's boost
out 10 Fripp. Harvard then tied the
score in its half Of the inning, Percy's
left field double being the starter,
Fripp bunting and Bothfeld flying to
centre. after which Percy raced home.
Harvard's two runs in the sixth were
made on Coolidge's hit. Nash's sacri-
fee. a pass 10 Abbot, who went 10 sec
ond on Harte's fy 10 Johnson, and then
a singing hit 10 centre b. Beal.