Show A LA MERKLE S 'S failure to touch second last September Dales nales into insignificance when the final play in a recent Prince Prince- Yale ton game ame is considered It was the last Jast half of the tenth inning with Princeton at bat and needing one ono run to tic tie and two to win A runner was wason wason wason on third and antI ono ona on second with only one man out Meyer a substitute batter batter bat bat- ter was WiS sent Bent in to to hit the tho ball and ho he did singling to short right field scoring tho the man from fram third with the run There was no chance in the world for tho man to score tho thin winning win lit nin ning tally tall from fram second base That ill is is thorp there wouldn't wouldn t have 1 been boen len with a Yale Vale player in right field who knew the tho first t principles of baseball Yo ng Mr lr was the tho Yale ri right ht fielder a at that time and he grabbed the ball and threw it to first base o in hopes perhaps perhaps per haps of catching catchin tho the man on the way to that bag bal At that ho throw wild to first although it would have made mado no difference had bad the throw been bean a perfect one for with only ono man out it mido 1 do dono no difference whether tho the runner was wa caught or not aoL As the tio result th this the second see sec ond and man tallied and tho the game am was lost Jost for Yale |