New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-12
DOCTORS rs. PRE4CHERS.
Fanny and Erecting Game of Base
ball Helps Hospital.

Plafnheld " J.. Juno IL CSpeciaD.-Before a crowd
OF two thousand spectators comprised mostly Of
fashionable people and the commuter element, two
baseball mines. recruited from the ministers and
doctors OF this city battled Ais Field. this af-
ternoon for championship honors. In one sense 1t
was a burIesque the national game. but both
sides tried hard 20 win. and they were so evenly
matched the contest become intensely interesting,
the physicians eventually winning out by a score
OF q to 81 There are some who assert there
even more runs than this. but that is the accepted
number
The ministers team, which had been the favorite
ali along, came on the field attired IN regulation
uniforms covered with frock coats and topped by
silk hats They were headed by a Zobo band COM
posed OF members OF the Hillside Tennis and Golf
Club. and after march in front OF the grandstand.
turned their backs TO the spectators. It was then
seen that each had letter on his coat the whole
spelling Ministers"
They had hardly taken seats tho players
benches when the Muhlenberg Hospital ambulance
dashed up. bearing fifteen Red Cross nurses. one
Of them. DR.. Norman Probasco attired as a woman
in the regulation hospital uniform. They
prised the doctors team. and. following a parade
OF all the contestants. time was called by City
Judge William N Runyon dressed in Rough Rid
er's costume. and carrying brace of pistols and
rife
The fun was fast and furious and the players
made the most of ii. just when they tried to be
serious Several of the doctors insisted on stand
ing on the batting plate, with the result that two
ministers persisted in running home from second
base because II shorter. The services OF the
ambulance required several occasions to
carry Of injured and DR.. Albert Pitts removed
10 the hospital with blank cartridge wound
given by the umpire. Three OF the players who
made short inheld hits around the bases
without stopping, because OF the ball being
fumbled from one position TO the other.
Star plays were made by DR.. Peter $. Cregar.
who IS brother-in-law to "Christy- Mathewson.
Of the New-York Nationals; by the Rev Gilbert
Lowell, missionary China. by the Rev. L. p.
Howard. pastor OF Hope Memorial Chapel and by
the Rev. E. Wears Stevenson. rector OF Grace
Protestant Episcopal Church. DR. b. Van u.
Hedges made two two-base hits, but put
each time because he could not stop himself from
going second base.
Previous TO the game programmes and peanuts
sold by the Rev. John Sheridan Sesle who
succeeded the Rev. William r. Richards of the
Brick Presbyterian Church. New-York. pastor
OF the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church; the
Rev. w. g Snodgrass pastor Of the First Meth
odist Episcopal Church: DR. T A Davis and Dr.
A. F Van Horn. The proceeds from the game
amount 81 0oo and they will be added the
fund for nurses home for Muhlenberg Hos
pitaL The teams were made up follows:
DOCTORS. MINISTER'S.
p 3. Cregar, Sc. J. O. NcKelvey 50 and @
b Van y. Hodges Ii Gilbert Lowell. and ..
D. c. Adams and II. A G Il Mooney. r.
Carman So. +. Wears stevenson. ID.
/ p. DOYLE. p L r Howard 81
NJ b Long and n y. Iuf- ". Montgomery Downey 81
burgow, n. DR.. Herring. Ct.
q. 9 Ard. CT L. 7, Lndholm n.
P. B. Zeglie. ID.
W X Browning, c.
Ellis W. Hedges. II.