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Vou. IX. No. 30. NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1900. Copyright, 1900, by Yale Alumni Weekly. Price 10 CeEnts. YALE BASEBALL. A Few Criticisms—The Nine Develops Team Play. The Southern. trip of the Yale Nine of six games, which closed with the second game with Georgetown at Washington, Tuesday, April 17, resulted in even divi- sion of losings and winnings—three each way. The objects of this annual trip are primarily to give the team practice; to get the men working well together, and to give them confidence. These things were more satisfactorily done than the scores of the games would seem to in- dicate. When the Nine left New Ha- ven it was merely an aggregation of ball players. Each man looked out for himself and there was very little team work and less head work shown. The playing of the six games scheduled, against stronger teams than have been met on this trip in previous years, amalgamated the units, and the result is a team, of which the infield plays very smoothly together and with the out- field beginning to get in good shape. All the men show snap and dash, and it would appear to be, at this writing, a Nine in which team play can be highly developed. The batting of the Nine on the trip was remarkable in the amount of heavy hitting done—six home runs, six triples and as many two-base hits. It is, notice- able, also, that the hitting was very in- consistent, and not well bunched when men were on bases. There are great possibilities in batting. In no way did the Easter trip benefit the men more than in fielding practice. The infield now plays a strong, sharp, game; accepts many difficult chances, and is capable of making brilliant plays, as illustrated by the triple in the game with Boston. Sharpe, at first, is learn- ing his position more thoroughly every day and is covering much ground. Both Brown and Captain Camp have played all through the season a very fast game, but Quinby, at second, is erratic in throwing and, while pretty sure of what he gets his hands on, does not cover ground enough. The weakness of the infield, in particular, is in catching pop flies and uncertainty and hesitation as to who should take them. These faults were responsible for the loss of the sec- ond Georgetown game. In the last two games the outfield developed some speed, but it is still slow in starting, and has only just begun to work together. The men do not cover neatly enough ground, and are not ac- curate in throwing. The base running of the men is much better than before the trip. Garvan and Robertson, though having good. control and speed, were hit hard and often in almost every game. It is worthy of note, that notwithstanding this they were effective up to six inn- ings, and the falling off of power after that may possibly be explained by the fact that the wear and tear of travel in sleeping cars, with necessarily bad hours, made it impossible for them to stand the strain of an entire game. Robertson did the best work and at times showed remarkable control. Both Sullivan and Cunha were steady be- hind the bat, the latter’s throwing to bases being unusually accurate and swift. Wale 8; University of Virginia 7, -Yale played the fifth game of the Southern trip with the University of Virginia Nine at Charlottesville, Vaz, and. won. by the score of 8 to 7. Not an error was made on the Yale side. Garvan pitched for six innings and did his best work of the trip, keeping hits scattered until the sixth inning, when he weakened greatly and was replaced by Robertson. The Yale batting was er- ratic, as in the other games. Lyon and Quinby made home runs. The score: YALE. AB. 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Stolen bases — Camp, Barnwell (3), Quinby (2), Nalle. Dou- ble play—Camp, Sharpe. Time—Two hours and twenty minutes. Umpire— Mr. Shibley. Yale 5; Georgetown 6. The second game with Georgetown, and the last one of the trip, was played at Washington, Tuesday, April 17, and went to Georgetown, as did the first one five days before. It should have been Yale’s game however, for by a remarka- ble burst of batting in the second and third innnings five runs were scored and a good lead obtained. Brown made a home run in the second, Quinby did the same in the third; Sullivan made a single and Guernsey two. After this, Blewett replaced White in the box for George- town, and allowed only two hits during the remaining six innings. Robertson pitched for Yale and was hit freely though not at all hard. Georgetown played a steady, up-hill game to the end, adding a run in the fifth, one in the seventh and two in the eighth. The Yale outfield did some very fast work, particularly Barnwell, at center field. Compared with the exhibition of the day before, the infield play was poor, Camp making two errors, and Quinby and Sharpe one each, all costly. | The score: YALE, AB. R. IB. PO. A. E. Onmiey 2b ees ie Sees ger seaee ate Barnwell, cis ea Tt PS 62} Cate See te ix 4 Pe Sava, Co oo OAT ae Beg Dawe 4 ee 4 § 2) 0 F°6 Guerusey: 1f2 of, 4: OV 2 oO 6 SD rial tec fala 9 5 Magemate aeetie cre 4° 6 OS GT EVOR fh ors a Be oh Ropertaon. p: 2-2. 4°a"9° 4" 2 6 AOA 25, has cere SO" SB Be Bg GEORGETOWN. AB. R. IB. PO. A. E. NOPE, Ss. 0 eee: R22 eon 6 POWs Clo, ae 5 la dees Somer ee 3 igen 5 Walsh, fission s. 4:56 HEE Si etowe Vata, 20. lk eG he ee oe Cranston. 6. Gocco Se ee Ee 8 Blewett, 2b., p. 2.2... 2D Oe 6 aPeR One TB? ee Ga abd, alt We ad eg §. Sriutin; 30 4 eas AoE Oe ee MHEG as cicis ines ae 45:05 8.54 O00 BUrank, rl 0-0 Go 6.6 BOE CL ee ae Oe P23 475 6 758 Wale 02300000 0—5 Georgetown: . 6-1 1-0 .3°6-h 2 6-5 Summary: Earned runs—/Yale 4, Georgetown 4. Home runs—Quinby, Brown, Moran. Stolen bases—Barnwell, Sullivan, Moran, Derien. Double play —Robertson, Sullivan, Sharpe. Base on balls--Off Robertson 3. Struck out -—-By Robertson 2; by White 1; by Blewett 2. Passed balls — Sullivan. Time—Two hours and fifteen minutes. Umpire—Mr. Snyder. Yale 4; Holy Cross 3. It took thirteen innings to decide the game with the veteran Holy Cross Nine at Yale Field Saturday afternoon, April 21, and the audience of 1,500 that had seen the score tied in the ninth and had sat through four extra innings with- out a run being made, settled them- selves for the fourteenth as the last Yale man, Sharpe, came to bat. With two strikes called on him he got a ball that suited him and drove it far enough to make three bases, thus scoring Brown, who had made first on a pretty single, and winning the game, four runs to three. Yale did not make a run until the eighth inning, when Quinby singled over second, and by a sacrifice of Barn- well went to third. Camp singled and stole second, when by their only unstead- iness during the whole game, the Holy Cross men made two errors, allowing Quinby and Camp to cross the plate. Yale tied the score in the last half of the ninth inning, when Waddell, who had singled, stole second and was brought in by Cunha’s two-base liner between short and second, Cunha having gone to bat in place of Garvan. Holy Cross’s runs were made by timely batting, clever and very fast base-running, and errors by Garvan, Sullivan and Brown. The game showed Yale in a favorable light, for a green team, and there was much to praise during the long, hard fought contest. Both Garvan and Robertson did splendid work in the box and as a rule were well supported at critical moments, the errors with two exceptions being excusable. Both in the field and at the bat the Nine improved with every inning in the sharpness of their play, and fought steadily to a successful issue one of the most stub- born games held at the Field for many years, which is in itself not the léast encouraging feature of the baseball situa- tion at Yale to-day. The batting of the Yale Nine, however, was below what it should have been, and, as in other games when hits were needed, they did not come. Holy Cross had the same Nine, in every position, as last year, when they beat Yale by the score of 7to6. At that time Yale had the game well in hand up to the eighth inning, when the visitors, by bunching hits, scored three runs and won the match. The Holy Cross team this year is a bet- ter one than that which beat Yale last year—stronger at the bat, in the box and in the field. The score: | @ YALE, AR. RO TB. PO: A. E. EVID Y QB. oan ee Cite ae ee a a Barnwe tio... a te 3 GO Camp se vee. Set 2 2. 8 <3 SHllivat: Go yes wee SO Be 3° T Guernsey; 1h te 77 So 072 0 Oo Brown, 3b. 44.4303) Te RG el ale dae Lyons, tf). ee *.0 6 1° O 0 Waddell. rio a ote to - 0 Of SHathe. 30,507 ose iY Ott 2s O° 36 Garvan, te ee Sie 2.2 2 Cunha oo 8 0 <0 0 Robertson, p25 i2:004 2 ut O46 6¥ 7 0:72 0 LO. 3.4 ae AS 24 84-40 25 «(6 *Cunha batted for Garvan in the ninth. HOLY CROSS. AB. R. IB. PO. A. E. Dyer. Ss, 720.245 a G2 FF 4°") Linnehan, 2be- 2.379. 3. BPS 36 1 McTigue, Fh. : 3s ule ee 20 (0:57 Carney, tf. “and>p. 2. 76 ae S050 tee a er ee yous, 5 .O OO Reiuiye ft. 3, ee. 4° O-@- FO 0 CONNER O18 oa ae ee hy OO Grttr, p and ie... ee ae eC Réfiney, ef. 3 cL eee Oo oo bhentiat: GA 4 OG > 2. Y EOtAL ec a 45° 3° 36f2r 24 Winning run scored with two out in thirteenth. ; tS GAO LE L213 021-0020 71-4 000000 0O—3 Yate .s 2: Pe Ge. Summary: Earned runs—yYale 2. Two-base hit—Robertson. Three-base hit— Sharpe. Sacrifice hits — Brown, Barnwell, Sullivan, Brennan, Linnehan (2), Connor, O’Rielly. First base on errors—Yale 2; Holy Cross 3. Left on bases—Yale 12; Holy Cross 9. Stolen bases—Camp (2), Quinby, Sullivan, Barnwell, Waddell, Dyer, Fox, Carney. Bases on balls—Off Garvan 1; off Grif- fin 2. Wild pitch—By Griffin (2). Passed ball—Brennan. Struck out—By Garvan, O’Rielly, Linnehan, Mc-Tigue, Griffin; by Robertson, Brennan, Fox; by Griffin, Barnwell, Guernsey, Lyon, Waddell, Garvan, Brown. Base hits— Off Garvan 5; off -Robertson 3; off Grifin 9; off Carney 2. Time—Two hours forty minutes. Umpire— Gruber. Yale, 1903, 8; P. ©. A. 5. The Yale Freshman Nine defeated the Park City Athletic Association Nine at Bridgeport, Saturday, April 21, in a well played game, earning three of their runs. The fielding was particularly snappy. The score: . YALE, 1903. AB. R. IB. PO. A. E. Blount, Hee. 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