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_ The Belknap prize in Natural Histor
is divided between Orville Hicko
Schell, Harrisburg, Pa. and Frank Pell
Underhill, Norwalk, Conn., with honor-
able mention of Henry Franklin Mer-
riam, Summit, N. J. and George Ben-
jamin White, Cooperstown, N. Y.
DOWNS PRIZES, DIVINITY SCHOOL.
Senior class—(1) Loring Bertie Chase,
B.A., Marlboro, N. H. Amherst 1897;
(2) Arthur Ward Bailey, B.A., Wollas-
ton, Mass., Williams, 1896.
Junior class—(1) Jay Thomas Stock-
ing, B.A. Amherst 1895, Canton, N. Y.;
(2) James Francis Gregory, B.A. Am-
herst 1898, Bordentown, N. J.
HONORS IN MEDICAL SCHOOL, I900.
The Degree of Doctor of Medicine,
cum laude, awarded for unusual merit in
the examinations and work of the four
years’ course, Nathan: Leroy Griffin,
New London, N. H.; William John
Maroney, Springfield, Mass.; Herman
Canfield Pitts, New York City.
The Campbell Gold medal, awarded for
the highest rank in the examinations of
the four years’ course, Herman Canfield
Pitts, New York City.
The Keese prize, awarded for the
most meritorious thesis, Charles Oscar
Purinton, Ph.B., New Harford, Conn.,
with honorable mention of Carle Wil-
liam Henze, New Haven, Conn. 3
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TWO GAMES FOR HARVARD.
Yale Could Not Bat Stillman at New
Hiaven or New York.
A great rally by Harvard in pitching
and in fielding, coupled with some falling
off in Yale’s batting, reversed the appear-
ance of things after the Cambridge game
in the Yale-Harvard baseball series of
1900. Yale batted Stillman out of the
box in five innings at Cambridge, and
quickly disposed of the second man,
Kernan. The hitting in that game was
very remarkable in college baseball.
Yale hit safely eighteen times, with a
tctal of twenty-five, and fairly demoral-
ized Harvard. At the New MHaven
game, Stillman, the Freshman pitcher,
appeared again in the box for Harvard
with apparently much better form. Yale
dic practically nothing with him. The
came at New Haven was one of very
clean fielding but of very little hitting.
On the other hand, the final game in
New York was one of exciting situa-
tions. Harvard won again by superior
batting. Yale’s fielding even improved
on the work in New Haven and was
of the very highest order. :
Harvard particularly appreciated the
victory after the first bad defeat. The
fine recovery of the Nine is generaliv
attributed to the excellent leadership of
Captain Reid, who is a superb ball
player and an unyielding fighter. The
feeling showed by the two universities
toward each other during the series was
all that could possibly be desired. Har-
vard particularly appreciated the conces-
sion which Yale made at New Haven in
allowing Captain Reid a base runner
from the plate, which is quite without
precedent, and was put by Harvard in
the form of their wish and not their
claim or their right. Mr. Reid would
probably have been unable to play with-
out this privilege.
A single disagreeable incident marred
the New York game when Wendell of
Trarvyard® ran WHto “Camp Gf Yale at
second base, when the latter had his arm
raised to throw to first and complete a
double play. It looked for all the world
like most deliberate and uncalled for
interference and was very roundly
hissed. Mr. Wendell went out of his
base line just enough to fairly block
Camp, who had stepped a little off the
second bag to give him a clear field
to first. It has been learned, however,
that Mr. Wendell had done this same
thing in practice games at Harvard two
or three times, going to one side or the
other in order to get out of the way
and always getting exactly in the way.
_In one practice game at Cambridge, he
was struck squarely in the head by a
ball thrown hard by Fincke of Harvard,
who was trying to double at first. As
the incident was entirely inconsistent
with the kind of baseball which the
Harvard Nine had been playing, Yale
has been quite ready to believe it an
accident.
Yale, 15; Harvard, 5.
The crowd at the Cambridge game,
June 21, was the largest ever seen at a
baseball game at Soldiers Field. It
was variously estimated at from ten to
twelve thousand people. Such a degree
of enthusiasm at Harvard was never
seen before. While the teams were tak-
ing their preliminary practice, the scene
reminded one much of a Commencement
game at New Haven. Almost the entire
undergraduate body, supplemented by
numerous graduates and headed by a
band, marched around the field. All
wore on their straw hats high crimson
band-boxes with a white “H” on the
front.
At the head of this procession were
Evert Jansen Wendell and W. A. M.
Burden, 1900, last Autumn’s football
captain and First Marshal of his class.
After a circuit of the field all were
seated behind first base. Meanwhile the
remainder of the huge stands had been
CALVIN N. KENDALL
Given the degree of M.A. by Yale.
filling up. In the big stand back of the
catcher there were fully as many ladies
as men. In the section back of third
base, was seated the Yale contingent,
composed of a few undergraduates and a
large number of Boston alumni. Natur-
ally they were unable to cope with the
Harvard thousands in the volume of
their cheers, but throughout the game
they kept up a constant volley of cheers
and songs, ranging all the way from
“Here’s to-Good Old Yale” to “Omega
Lambda Chi” and the long cheer.
INDIVIDUAL WORK.
Yale appeared to rather poor advan-
tage in the preliminary practice, while
Harvard's play was sharp and snappy.
Robertson was in. the box for Yale, and
although feeling rather indisposed,
pitched one of the best games of his
life. Hirsh, who caught, broke a liga-
ment in the middle finger of his right
hand about the middle of the game, but
after having it bound to its two neigh-
boring fingers with electric tape, he
pluckily resumed catching and continued
without an error for the rest of the
game. Cook, Quinby and Hirsh seemed
unable to do anything but hit the ball
safely. Quinby nearly caused the Har-
vard nine to retire from the field.
When Kernan came in to pitch, Quinby
was on second and carelessly shouted
to Kernan, “Gracious -old man, I’d hate
to be in your shoes.” At this Captain
Reid protested strongly, and after a
consultation with Coach Nichols came
over to the Yale bench and announced
that if such a thing happened again he
would remove his nine from the field.
Cook did the heaviest batting, making
a home run, a triple and a single. His
home run, coming in the fifth when the
score was close, started Yale’s great
batting streak. Hirsh, in the same in-
ning, knocked another clean home run
but, unluckily, the umpire thought he
did not touch third base and so he was
out. Quinby’s record of four hits speaks
for itself. This is the first time this year
that a Yale man has reached that
number. The rest of the men also
batted hard at critical times. Captain
Camp, although not credited with a hit
brought in several runs by sacrifice hits
and long flies. |
Only once did Yale show any tendency
to play anything but the cleanest and
sharpest kind of baseball. This poor
streak occurred in the third inning and
took the form of two well-connected
wild throws, which allowed Harvard
three runs as a pure gift.. Guernsey’s
stop of Reid in the seventh was Yale’s
best piece of fielding. The ball was a
hard grounder close to third base and
the crack of the bat and the smack of
the glove were almost simultaneous.
Devens in the fourth inning made a sen-
sational catch off Camp’s bat of a short
fly back of third base. The ball seemed
to be dropping safe when Devens by
a magnificent dive reached and held it
with his right hand while lying flat on
his stomach.
YALE’S RUSH AT THE START.
Quinby started the merry work for
Yale by hitting the first ball pitched for
a clean single over Coolidge’s head.
After Camp had advanced him to second,
Cook drove the ball to right field for
three bases. Sullivan was given a base
on balls and Guernsey, Hirsh and Barn-
well followed up with singles, giving
Yale a lead of four runs.
In the first two innings Harvard was
unable to reach first while Yale in-
creased her score by one rtin in the
second inning. In the third, after
George had gone out to Cook, Camp
fumbled Clark’s grounder and Stillman
singled. Kendall hit an easy ball to
Robertson and then followed Yale’s
wild throwing streak, leaving Harvard
but two runs behind. They added
another in the fourth on a couple of
singles, a hit batter and a base on _ balls.
With the score of five to four in Yale’s
favor, Cook opened the fifth with a clean
home run under the ropes in left field.
Sullivan walked, and, after Guernsey
had gone out to Stillman, Hirsh drove
another ball under the ropes in right
field but his home run was not allowed.
Robertson’s wild throw to first in Har-
vard’s half allowed Reid to make a
circuit of the bases. In the sixth, Barn-
well walked and Robertson and Quinby
followed with singles, filling the bases.
Then Stillman was sent to centerfield
and Kernan placed in the box. But
a miserable error by Coolidge and an
exceedingly dumb play by Clarke in-
creased Yale’s score to ten runs. After
this Harvard did not come near scoring,
while Yale scored five more in the
seventh as a result of five hits and
three bases on balls.
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Summary: Home run—Cook. Three-
base hits—Cook, Hirsh. Two-base hit
—-Sullivan. Sacrifice hit—Camp. Stolen
bases—Sullivan 3, Quinby, Guernsey.
Struck out—Sharpe 2, Robertson, Cool-
idge, Wendell, Devens, Stillman, George,
Clarke, Kendall. Base on balls—By
Robertson 4; by Stillman 3; by Kernan
4. Base hits off Stillman 10; off Kernan
5; off McDonald 3. Hit by pitcher—
Clarke, Devens. Passed ball—Reid.
Left on bases—Yale 7; Harvard 8. Time
3 aie 30 minutes. Umpire—W. W.
mith.
Harvard, 3; Yale 0,
After the magnificent show of batting
strength at Cambridge, the preceding
Thursday, Yale was shut out in the
second game, Tuesday, June 26. For
eight innings neither side scored nor, in-
deed, came near scoring, Harvard get-
ting but one man as far as second. Both
pitchers were in fine form and were
sharply backed by their teams. In
Yale’s half of the eighth, Sullivan, the
first man up, drove a hot liner over
Coolidge’s head and by fast and bold
running made three bases on it. Guern-
sey struck out and then Hirsh came to
the bat and made a play which has
been criticised most unreasonably.
With two balls and a strike called on
him, he signalled Sullivan to come in,
meaning himself to bunt the ball. It
happened to be an out drop curve so
wide that Hirsh could not reach it and
it landed in Reid’s glove in plenty of
time to tag Sullivan out before he
crossed the plate. Hirsh went out on
a long fly to left field a moment later.
The much criticised play is a simple
one and an old one. Case, the Yale
captain of Ninety-Four, used it success-
fully with a man each on second and
third in a tie game with Princeton, and
practically won his game on it. Murphy
was on second and Rustin on _ third,
Case was at the bat and gave the signal
he would bunt. On the raise of the
Princeton pitcher’s arm both men
started. Rustin was in so soon from
third that he was almost mixed up with
the hit, while Murphy who had taken a
big lead from second, and was hardly
half a base length behind him, reached
home safely. Case, who was batting,
was put out at first, but the price was
low for two runs. They gave Yale the
upper hand on the foe, and it was much
easier afterwards to tighten it into a
winning grip. To get the start, is the
thing, and Sullivan’s run would have
given it. The Nine had been told, be-
fore they went on the field, to work a
good trick, when they had the chance.
Those were the only general coaching
orders in the point. The batsman, who
takes the initatiwg~s, such a case, had
every reason to belfeve that he could
meet the ball and send it somewhere on
the ground. Anywhere would have
done, and to push a ball somewhere on
the ground, inside the diamond, is easy
with almost any kind of a ball. Hirsh
very likely would have gone out himself,
as he is not a skillful bunter, but Sulli-
van would have been safe. As it was a
: JOSEPH PORTER
Given the degree of M.A. by Yale.
good trick had failed. The hazard al-
ways present in keen baseball threw Yale
that time. She will take others just
like it and clear them to victory.
Among the many criticisms, visited on
this play, none is more interesting than
the contention that the play was an
indefensible risk, because there was
only one man out. The batter cannot
pick his ball under these circumstances,
and so the chance of locating it just
right to the foot—which calls for the
fine art of bunting—is all against him.
He will probably get out, while the run
comes in. If there were two out be-
fore him, how wise, the whole perform-
ance would appear as he was thrown out
at first.
In Harvard’s half of the eighth inning,
Clark and Stillman singled and on a wild
pitch moved up a base. Coolidge’s two-
