Defeat And Victory

It was a t erri-ffic conibat - espedí illy t;hO bat. It resultad' ia bDtli cleteat and victo'.-y. Iafeát fot' ■ prouitt Higto School Faculty team fhat & esmüticiigly. moippefcl the earth wi.th tlieiir léame} oppolnemts last year, and vEctory for tira professors wfluo prOíesse'd too mucih at that time. They learmed' a leseo then and pnoffited by it. The High School ftusulty frgoot tíic.s tilmo uiiat they ■kaiTV' tihten. H'OT-ever, tbe game attiracted the aïtentfion oí sports all over thei natiim. It was of buoíl importan.ee that the Chicago amd1 Xw York papers deveted &pao& t.c iit, witJK spec-ia.1 reporters to jiil ijt, au daltJiough' the bulletin bo'ards vreire not watelied as erageray for thia report by iwiing-s as hiaa baan, the ea.se :lm some of the notetd ga.mea oif the paetj cspeciWJy t,lie om.e be-tween. Coir'bett a.ntl Fittzsüra-mosis, yen whiera Pnoï. .T. MontgiO'meiry oí the H. S. team mado a hiome ru;n. the applflusO rdppled, ii not clear airommd the world, at. least anaumidi pa.rb of i)fc. Bu-t that home -run, tlh'O'uig'Ji motoly done, dád not save tós skle fnoni disastooius defeat. Tlie truith of tho miaft.ter te that the mimboTs of t-hie Uinüvw-'sSty faculty, hiumlaiiateid as They -sven-o last year by tïueilr orushiing df,eat, res'j'ïved to retrieve tJueir fOTtunes tlliiis time, anü toeiiorie senudííníg a öliflllenge tiO; the H. S. facujty, haid) beeni practicing in the htgh-ways aiidi by-ways oi the t.O'wn, anü getttog tJlile.ilr ba.tting and ca-tciting mmscles livenraid' inp bo T-liat tthey we aare of vibtory. Oii tlh,e ether hand, members of t'he H. 6. tea.m, stüll flufilhied and pufted inp wlitlb! tiheir riotoo-y o( last yea.r, -were SO' eooiffiJile.aUt tlittt tho Uni■ersdfty íaeníty vrere. s thorougihly criLSSied thot they meweff" would dare to ptoj" a.nraitlhiei" gajae, tiiat thO cballeulge toot tihem by smttn'áse and tihey ■meire uap-repared. To be sure they weMt t)o bat v-iltitt thie prestig won last yöa.r sp'urrinEr tihienu on, but prestiige diidiii't hit thie ball and wheii they cianie to ptay, fflwiy joiinid' thati thedlr ■advcnsanSaa were dSlferenft men irom the saft-taaodied, yellohv-kiti playera 'of -Öhie past. Thie Var&lties had become more Aneonlan, as i!t were, more suple O' limit), quiSolcei" to; &aa a fly ajïd mors eager ba grasp i)t. Joce lyul's too'b grounaere were not nJloNved to parsiie ttoür wi sweet waj; as of yare. a.iwi tltus "sky sdrafvers'' oï WSmeB'e wre BO't stanned wlien reaöMlnig terra Jtoma as formerly. The Uniifiiersiitdes oitt-fielided aad out baHted tbeSi' oppaneia'fcs, and, won mosttty by merlt, but wih'en the catcli Ot seta a bá,U to1 lsti base and put cutí Jaoobs, just beoausa he was no staii'dilng O'rv the baiae, t'her took ; ■mean aitïvaiitage. HO'W eomld he and Woroeötei botih sbaiiil on the Ist base at the sama time ? Tlie teams liuecE p on tüue Brtar üi th'ia way : 'VATsbty- "Woroeöher, 1 b.; Hilktaer s. s.; T.iwnley. c; Trueblood, 2 Ir. Dtoom, 3 b.; Ijom'bani, 1. f.; Pastban giill, e. f.; Strauss, r. f.; Paiterson p. iJ4é?n. tsc.iiKJüi- jocei.vii. p.; w.uu nion. 1 b.; Spriimvv, e.; Beal, s. b. Haw&es, 2 b.; Minar, 3 b.; Witaee c í.; Jacobs, I. f.; Mteitgomeary, r. i Just hxtw t'hiey; r.rul up wbee t ii g-aniío andad, omr reporter, tiio-ug1 ía.miillfe.i1 wifch ]iand, ivas jno nblo to say. ïlie scare by tmnilnge i.s : SJa W. Mffllard aid Concli' AVatkin.of tJie 'Varelty, acteil as umpilree. Inifinigs --12 345G 'arsftty - - - 4 1 11 2 1 9- 2S H. S. - - - 2 0 O 6 6 0-14 The receipts, wliálcli, all jakiiig aside, was the best pairt oí tliö garoe amourited to $75, vrliifch will be tUvffldied betweea the H. B. and ttoe U. o( M. atlhletáo assct-iations. It -was mamey well eiimed'.