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Show I-BEATS HARVARD FN HI TITLE Home Run Snuffs Out Harvard's Chances: Sensational Fielding. NEW YORK. July 3. In a rousing tenth-inning finish Yalo defeated Harvard Har-vard today in a. hotly contested ball game which carried with it. the college baseball supremacy for 1909, each club having won. a game. The scoro was 5 to 2, and when the last .Harvard ila3"er had gono out on a high fly to the outfield out-field there was a hurricane of cheers from tho 10,000 spectators at tho Polo Grounds and a rush of students to carry car-ry off triumphantly on their shoulders Van Vleck, the Yalo pitcher and right fielder, who tied the score, 2 to II, in tho eighth inning with a home run to the back fence and snuffed out Harvard's Har-vard's hopes of scoring in tho same inning in-ning by two dazzling catches in tho outer garden. In the tenth inning Hicks's wild pitch brought in a run for Yalo and an error by McLaughlin let two runs more over the plate. Tale 000 001 010 35 10 6 Harvard 001 001 000 02 11 1 Batteries Van Vleck, Merrltt and Fhllbln; Hartford, Hicks and Currier. |