Crew, Nine Win in Hair-Raising Merriwell Contests

In a sloppy, wild, yet thrilling contest, the Crimson baseball team overhauled Yale 11 to 8 in 12 innings at New Haven on Saturday, coming from behind to score four runs in the ninth before winning the battle in extra innings.

By way of anti-climax, the Stahlmen will take on Ted Williams and his Amherst naval training mates at 4 o'clock this afternoon at Soldiers Field. The contest was postponed last Friday because of rain.

Errors Abound

Fourteen errors, eight by Harvard and six by the Bulldogs, made Saturday's game a wide open affair, and 24 basehits splattered to all parts of the diamond.

The Elis jumped on Captain Warren "Moe" Berg in the very first frame, when first baseman Jim Connelly poled out a home run with the bases loaded to give Yale a 4-0 lead. There was no further scoring until the fourth, when the Crimson came back with three runs against the Elis' highly rated Looper Cahill.

Yale Nibbles

But Red Rolfe's Blue charges nibbled at Berg's offerings for a run in the fourth and fifth innings, and although Harvard scored once in the sixth to make the count 6 to 4, Yale kept up its run an inning pace with single scores in the seventh and eighth frames to lead 8 to 4 as-the teams entered the ninth.

Here the Stahlmen rallied for four runs, driving Cahill from the mound. Wally Flynn's double was the only extra base blow of the rally, which featured singles by Gerry Callanan, pinch-hitting for Berg, Walt Sorgi, Brooks Heath, and Red Wilcox, and a walk granted to Ned Fitzgibbons.

Brandon Reilly, relieving Berg, pitched masterful ball, allowing only one hit in the four frames he was on the mound. Rolfe used two hurlers in the extra innings, and came to grief in the twelfth.

The winning runs came as a result of singles by Sherman Clark and Brendon Reilly, walks to Sorgi and Heath, and an infield error on Fitzgibbon's ground ball.

Stahl's mound choice this afternoon against John Pesky, Johnny Sain, Buddy Gremp, and a flock of ex-college stars will probably be Jack Farley, who pitched good ball against the Red Sox last month, but faltered against the Coast Guard in his last outing.