VAT eo AT TREES
THE BASEBALL SEASON.
The baseball season has been as surpris-
ing as it has been disappointing. Every
series has been lost, and yet at times
the Nine has played ball of a quality
superior to that of many a nine which
has won every important series. The
Captain of the Nine has been of the first
quality of athletic leadership. He has
not only known the game well and
played it well, but he has had the per-
sonal qualities of manliness and courtesy
to add to his hold upon his men and
upon the College. While falling off a
little in his play the middle of the season,
as did several of the men, he closed with
a brilliant record in the last two games
of the Harvard series.
He has had rather an unusual set of
men to deal with. They have been of
the best and of a _ kind one _ likes
to see representing Yale. They have
been recognized for a long while as hav-
ing a lot of baseball in them and now
and again have shown it. A faster in-
field is seldom seen. But it was hard
to keep them nervously and physically up
to the pitch. Camp was practically with-
out any assistance in coaching for the first
part of the season. When Mr. Keator,
who thought it impossible for him to do
any coaching work of any consequence
this year, finally came up from New
York for the month of June, at very con-
siderable-personal sacrifice, things began
to look up decidedly. The Captain was
properly relieved and assisted, and under
a single, consistent system the play of
the men improved. What appears to
have been a slight over-training at the
very end was the only drawback to
perfectly successful work.
But these things made the disappoint-
ment of losing the two series all the
keener. The Princeton game, so nearly
won, was lost, under most trying cir-
cumstances. It ought not to have been
lost, even under those circumstances, and
even though those circumstances must
never be repeated in any intercollegiate
baseball in which Yale takes part: The
Nine and all of Yale gave full credit
to Princeton for her rally and Yale’s
players each took upon himself the re-
sponsibility of defeat. There was never
better spirit in a nine.
In that game at Princeton, Yale had
entirely smashed the criticism that the
players did not dare to hit, by all but
knocking Hillebrand out of the box.
Then followed the phenomenal hitting of
the Cambridge game, and all Yale’s
spirits went up. The same Nine against
the same pitcher did nothing at New
Haven and could not do all they wanted
to at New York. They had not become
the masters at batting that Yale’s nines
must hereafter become at any cost.
The story of the Harvard series is told
elsewhere. The last game was of the
hot, exciting kind which Yale men used
to love and not fear. It is highly
hypercritical to condemn the Nine or
any part of it for the losing of it, but
the Yale sentiment of to-day is,—and
nowhere so strong as among these players
themselves—that such a game in the fu-
ture must not be lost, but that the men
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must come up to the scratch, as did Cap-
tain Camp, and do their very best when
their best is needed. If the work of
others had corresponded to their Cap-
tain’s, there would have been no third
game and hardly a question of a contest
in the second.
THE WORST FEATURE.
But the great feature of the season
and the worst .feature of it, and the one
which every Yale man can aid in making |
absolutely impossible in the future, was
the insubordination of the College. The
term is used deliberately. There were
conditions which made it easy for this
insuboridnate spirit to show itself, but
that did not excuse it, nor did it excuse
the right-minded men for not suppress-
ing it.
Yale the common creed has always been
that the king can do no wrong. ‘That
creed was attacked and in part over-
thrown this. past season. The best
judgment of the Captain, backed by ad-
vice from the best of baseball experts
and concurred in by the baseball men of
College, was declared unsound, was im-
peached in common conversation and
through public criticism as _ dictated
by the most damnable motives, and was
finally made the occasion of what was
practically open revolt at a championship
game on the Yale diamond.
The demonstration of June 2 was a
disgrace to the University. The number
of men who joined in that demonstration
for one player against another was not
a majority or nearly a majority, of the
students of Yale, but it was enough to
show that the unity of Yale was broken.
If the spirit had been as it has been in
the days of Yale’s best efforts, and as it
must be in the future, that demonstration
would have been impossible. Some men
excuse it on the ground that public
criticism had been so bitter and wild and
general, that it was not strange that
many had been misled. But in other
days writers could say what they would,
outsiders could attack in any way they
pleased or with any weapon's which they
elected to use, and Yale still stood with
firm ranks behind her leaders and fol-
lowed with confidence.
It has already been said in this paper
that it was against human nature to
believe that a team, with a knowledge
- of that feeling behind them, could come
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