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Show MUPvMTJBINGS LULLED NOW. Sophorlflc Effect on Idea That Yale Is a Dead One. Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. May 12. The Intorcol-lcglato Intorcol-lcglato baseball situation seems to change each week almost as rapidly as a kaleidoscope. ka-leidoscope. In the beginning of the season sea-son Cornell easily assumed tho position of favorite, but fell from her high estate when she met Princeton. The Ornngo and Black nourished for a tlmo and then went down ln defeat before Brown at Providence The Yale team, on the other hand, started so poorly as to occasion much concern at New Haven, but Its showing ln tho last four games entitles the Blue to a place ot promlnenco for the nrcscnt nt IcasL The Harvard combination, com-bination, which has neither been indifferently indiffer-ently good, nor Indifferently bad. remains the same. - Her defeat by Dartmouth, 3 to 1, was not a great surprise. Nor wvmld it have been n great surprise had the crimson won It is recognized at Cambridge Cam-bridge that Harvard's chances for tho Intercollegiate championship banner this years are very poor The most remarkable development of the last two weeks Is tho way Yale nine has picked up. Apparently the lecture the men got from the captain and conch after the Southern trip has borne fruit. In tho very first game after returning to New Hnvon from tho South, the Blue defeated Fordam, 11 to 5, This she followed up with a conquest over Manhattan. 17 to 0. and over Columbia, 15 to 5. The fact that Yalo was defeated by Pennsylvania nnd then triumphed over the While and Blue after the local university had defeated de-feated the Quakers is good evidence of the braco the New Ht-.ven team has taken. Tho murmurlngs that the Blu Is not living up to the expectations of many and that she will not win championship cham-pionship honors agnin this year are lulled now. |