The sun., 1919-04-23
YALE TEAM GIVES
GIANTS A TUSSLE
Big Lcaguers Beat Collegians
by 4 to 3+LudicrOus
Play by Chase.

According to time honored custom
Yale's baseball team yesterday offered
themselves as n sacrifice at the Polo
Grounds TO make a Giant holiday. TO
tho surprise OF the small but critical
assemblage who anticipated II slaugh-
ter OF the collesians, possibly tempered
with mercy on the part OF the c9lecians.
the sons OF ELI came so near to beating
the Polo Ground heroes that the former
Champions were worried at the close.
The nnal score was to 3 in favor Of
the Giants, and 1t required some skilful
manpuvring in the eighth inning for
the big leaguers TO get the winning run
over the plate.
The general expectation that the coll
legians would indulge in side splitting
errors and that the Giants would race
tho bases until they were exhausted was
not realized. On the contrary the
amateurish feature of the programme
was furnished by the Giants and, most
astonishing OF ALL tho usually wide
awake Chase was the central figure In
one OF the most amusing blundcrs ever
seen on "A ball field. The fact that the
faux pas Melted the Yalensilns two
runs, putting them in the lead, was one
of the painful sidelights OF ludicrous
! incident
Bonehead Play In seventh.
The laugh provoking affair took place
+. In the seventh inning at time when the
! Giants were ahead by to I. Sawyer.
the first man up. reached first on an ex-
cusable tumble by Fletcher. but the run
ner was forced at second by Fredericks's
grounder TO Chase, the play being
from Chase to Fletcher Doyle. who
covered FIRST. took throw from Fletcher,
but too late to complete a double play.
When nnNle ualled hack IN his pOsi-
ton back OF second he carried the ball
concealed under his arm. and when
| steele sauntered 10 tho pitching slab
| Fredericks walked on first base and took
| long lead.
Doyle quickly shot the ball at Chase.
! but the first sacker evidently had not
| comprehended the signal and was away
| from the bag al the time the ball shot
| past him and rolled to the Giant dugout.
| All might have been well had 1t not
been that Giant rookie whose identity
was not disclosed, ran out and hurled
! the ball to Chase. thus making it =
| blocked ball. F'redericks under the fran
! tic coaching OF his teammates finally
! caught the drift of proceedings and
| hoofed It to the home plate before the
ball reached tho pitchers hands
Following this play Holden and Lynch
hit doubles and brought in another run
An Interesting Contest.
| Aside from this episode the game was
! quite interesting. Frank Cox OF Ashe-
VILE, n. G., a tall chap wearing goggles
a la Lee Meadows. but pitching with his
| left arm, held the Giants down tight IN
the matter of hits and with better sup
! port would have won.
! The run the Giants got in the first in
| ming was due to an ineXcusable mum by
! Lynch. After Burns had stolen second
! and third he got home on a throw 10
| third by Fredericks, which Gage did not
| seem to expect.
/ The run in the nth resulted from hits
| by McCarty and Thorpe and 4 sacrifice
! fly by Young
! In the seventh Burnss single and
/ Steele's double gave run. and in the
| eighth DOyle's pass Sickiugs single and
| 8 force out gave the winning run.
The collegians got their run IN the
! hfth on Sswyer's single. Freder .cl<s'
! sacrifice and HoldenS single.
| Jim Thorpe started the game as UNI
! pire. but was succeeded by AlcGraw ID
the third inning. The score