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who, though troubled by the south paw's in- 

 clination to wildness, still had sufficiently 

 good control to pull himself out of small 

 holes, and, when effective, was almost invin- 

 cible. 



Coburn likewise had made a splendid rec- 

 ord in previous seasons, and had pitched this 

 year so well that few teams had been able to 

 bat him at all. There was no reason, there- 

 fore, to anticipate that Yale would make more 

 than a creditable showing against the two 

 crack nines of the season. The first game at 

 New Haven with Princeton seemed to sup- 

 port this supposition. However, the Yale 

 nine had been improving steadily from the 

 start of the year, when it appeared to be al- 

 most below mediocre, and was playing a game 

 especially marked by team batting and in- 

 side play that promised success against any 

 but teams of the Princeton and Harvard cal- 

 iber. When at Princeton, in the face of the 

 terrific cheering which always marks a com- 

 mencement game on the Tiger's field, old Eli 

 pulled the contest out of the fire by a last 

 inning rally, it was believed by many that 

 the third game, which must be played in New 

 York, would result in other than a victory for 

 Nassau. 



Yet the New Haven collegians played such 

 a game in the decisive contest as was abso- 

 lutely irresistible, knocking Byram out of the 

 box and winning from the start. To be sure, 

 Princeton went to pieces in a surprising fash- 

 ion, but this is not an unusual result of such 

 inside team "play as Yale exhibited, and de- 

 tracts in no way from the credit due the Blue. 

 Wiseacres shook their heads in criticising the 

 outcome and said that no such result would 

 mark the games with Harvard. 



YALE GRIT WON THE DAY. 



It may be said that at New Haven the 

 coaches were far from confident of the issue, 

 although hopeful that the team would con- 

 tinue its fine play. When, in an eleven in- 

 ning contest, Yale was able to hold Harvard 

 safe, they were well satisfied indeed. While 

 they were unable to hit Coburn to any extent, 

 Jackson had proved equally effective, and if 

 he could repeat his showing, there was an 

 even chance of a victory for Eli in the second 

 game. 



This spirit of aggressive determination, that 

 has pulled out victory from defeat so often 

 for the Blue, undoubtedly won the day. Har- 

 vard, discomfited by her failure to win the 

 first game as she expected, played with the 

 lack of confidence that follows her excess of 

 confidence so frequently. Coburn was batted 

 hard and effectively, and when hits counted 

 most, while Jackson was able to fool the 

 Crimson batters whenever there was a possi- 

 bility of a Harvard score. The result was a 

 one-sided game in which there was never a 

 chance for the Cambridge team to win after 

 the first inning. 



It is impossible to praise too highly such 

 evidence of pluck and skill as Yale displayed. 

 In spite of her inferior work early in the 

 season, she has retrieved herself splendidly, 

 and deserves unquestioned title to the pre- 

 mier position. 



She has met defeat at the hands of George- 

 town twice, Eordham, Manhattan, Brown and 

 Princeton; and has won from Tufts, Brown, 

 Columbia, Richmond, Virginia, Norfolk, 

 Pennsylvania twice, Maine, Andover twice, 

 West Point, Holy Cross, Syracuse, Vermont, 

 Georgetown, Princeton twice, and Harvard. 



HARVARD RANKS SECOND. 



Harvard must rate second by virtue of her 

 defeat of Princeton in the single game which 

 the two colleges played. She scored a suc- 

 cession of six straight victories at the start 

 of the season before losing to Amherst; and 

 five more until Holy Cross broke her string 

 again. Vermont, Trinity, Syracuse, West 

 Point, Carlisle, Williams, Bates, Dartmouth, 

 Andover, Colby and Cornell were beaten. 

 Following the Holy Cross game she won from 

 Poughkeepsie, lost to Brown, beat Prince- 

 ton, Brown and Williams, and was defeated 

 by Dartmouth and Yale, making a total of 

 five games lost out of twenty-one played. 



Princeton lost six of twenty-eight;' two to 

 Yale, one to Harvard, one to Andover, one 

 to Cornell, and one to Pennsylvania State. 

 She defeated Ursinus, New York University, 

 Trinity, Tufts, Fordham, Brown twice, La- 

 fayette, Johns Hopkins, Walbrook, George- 

 town twice, Wesleyan, Cornell, Pennsylvania 

 twice, Amherst, Exeter, Lebanon, Dartmouth 

 and Yale. 



It is difficult to rate the smaller colleges; 

 Georgetown, Holy Cross, Fordham and Man- 

 hattan; Amherst and Dartmouth having 

 splendid records. 



Cornell appeared better than Columbia and 

 Pennsylvania, though none of the three were 

 strong. Pennsylvania was decidedly weak, 

 winning none of her important games, save 

 one from Cornell and one from Georgetown; 

 and being shut out by Georgetown twice, 

 Trinity, Yale, Lafayette, Columbia and 

 Princeton. In all, out of twenty-two games, 

 she won but seven. 



The amended game laws of the State of 

 Wisconsin provide : 



Game: Deer, open season. General open season 

 for hunting deer November 11 to November 30, 

 both inclusive; special provisions prevailing in cer- 

 tain counties. 



Woodcock, partridge, plover, snipe, pheasant and 

 grouse of any variety: Open season September 1 

 to December 1. 



Prairie chicken: Open season September 15 to 

 October 15. 



Wild duck or other aquatic fowl, open season, 

 September 1 to January 1. 



Wild goose or brant, open season, September 1 to 

 April 1. 



