New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-29
NOT A HIT, NOT A RUN.
NO BASEBALL IN BRONX.
Queens and Richmond Rooters Weep
No Brooklyn League Game.

cr,dav baseball in The Bronx and rufianism
Elevated trains were hit hard TO use a base
ii expression. yesterday. when the police In all
-.,incts excepting Captain Wenders acting
a. socordance with Corporation Counsel De-
,arv,s recent decision and the orders OF POLICE
,-o-7r1ssiouer AfcAdoo, stopped all bat and bah
.,,ss whether for fun money. with q
lentless hand
Although the National League game scheduled
1,- Washington Park had been called OFF by
president Ebhets, the police IN Brooklyn yester-
5av were kept busy carrying out the orders OF
Commissioner McAdoo TO allow baseball
ranes for which any fee was exacted. A dozen
NJ more games IN various parts Of the borough
were stopped. but arrests were made in only
q few cases
Captain David Evans. Of the 4th-ave. station
lid not content himself with warning teams not
70 play but waited until they had started and
then arrested the players and managers. He
stopped three games and made sixty-seven ar
rests. The general impression was that he had
made the Wholesale arrests with the idea of
making the enforcement OF the law against Sun
day baseball unpopular
The Bay Ridge and St Peters athletic clubs
were playing 1t 51st-st. and 2d-ave Bail for
the twenty-five men arrested at this game
furnished by Deputy Fire Commissioner Doyle
Michael O'Grady, manager Of st. Johns Ath-
letic Club, and Frank Mulrennen, manager Of
the washington Field Club. and twenty-one
Others connected with the teams, which were
playing a gamo at Ambrose Park at 3d-ave and
37th-s1.. were arrested. Bail for them was fur
rished by William Heffernan, g. contractor.
Ball teams from the Church of the Visitation,
IN PED Hook Point. and St. Michaers Church.
4rh-ave and 44th-st., we're playing game at
4Tth-st. and 2d-ave. when Captain Evans and
several men put an end to It They arrested
i4venty-two men. including John Joyce, manager
OF tho Visitation team, and John Brennan, man
sger Of st. Michaels.
Iron Man McGinnity. of the National
League. was advertised TO pitch for the vista
ton team. but before the game began he learned
that arrests would be made.
The police Of the AtIantc-ave. station stopped
E game between the Utica Club and the Howard
Athletic Club, at St Johns Place and Roches-
ter-ave Hundreds and in some cases several
thousand. spectators had gathered to see the
various games. and the interference OF the po-
lice was not taken kindly. II one or two in
stances riots were narrowly averted.
Most Of the East Side goes to The Bronx to
play baseball on Sunday. The police stopped
games not only in public parks. but in open lots.
CONSERVATION s1note hundreds of young men
armed with bats, gloves and balls who trooped
TO parks and lots in the early morning. only to
be warned that they would be arrested If they
tried TO play.
All day long crowds of boys and men went
north on the ID and Sd ave elevated trains.
only to return later with unused bats, balls and
gloves. In Crotona Park several thousand per-
sons gathered to witness a ball game. The
players were about TO take their places when
Captain Ferris warned them that arrests would
follow any attempt TO play. His threat was ef-
5ective. Inspector Nozlusly, in charge Of The
Bronx, was on hand to uphold Captain Ferris
All days long disconsolate ball players wan
dered about the borough being kept the
move, until at last many crossed over into the
84th precinct. controlled by Captain Wendell.
No games were allowed the grounds of the
Catholic Protectory of st. Johns College Every
Sunday there has been a game held there. Yes
terday cards announced that until further notice
there would be no more Sunday games.
Captains Burfeind of West Chester; Ferris. Of
fremont; Ward, OF AleXander-ave.: Marion, Of
Norrisania: Deevy, of Bronx Park. and Schlott-
man Of Kingsbridge. construe their orders as
stopping all Sunday games of baseball. Cap
tain Wendell contends that so long as the games
are orderly and there is no admission charged
or money taken by selling score cards there is
nothing in the recent order compelling him to
stop ball playing in his precinct.
Therefore in his precinct all was JOY. In Ma
combs Park, 161st-st. and Jerome-ave. there
a ball game in the afternoon at which some
two thousand persons were present Captain
Wendell! went there TO satisfy himself that
everything conducted in way which be
came the day and the precinct. In other parks
and lots there were other games.
Two thousand rooters who gathered at the
Recreation Grounds, in Jackson-ave., Long Is
land City expected to see game between the
G!enwoods and a team from Brooklyn STOPPED
but were agreeab bly, disappointed The grounds
are not enclosed and no admission fee could
be charged. but there is a newly erected grand
stand which seats several hundred people. en-
trance which obtained only by the
payment Of a small fee The game was played
without interference from the police Of the 74th
Precinct
The 18th Precinct, in Eewtown, was expected
70 be the storm centre Of the Sunday baseball
crusade in Queens, as the largest crowds in the
borough. sometimes running over ten thousand,
gather every Sunday at the Ridgewood ball
fields Captain Aloncle had opportunity TO
stop game neither of the teams scheduled
10 play appeared.
All baseball games. the amateur ones
We're called off in Richmond Borough owing to
the threat Of the police to obey Commissioner
McAdoo's order literally. There was no effort
10 enforce any other sunday law. The two
beaches ran wide open and beer was freely sold
without a meal