New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
ON CRICKET CREASES
MANY GAMES DECIDED.
Brooklm and West Indian Teams
Surprised by Unexpected Defeats.

Nearly all the cricket games decided yesterday
within the confines of the Metropolitan Disui!'1
resulted in a one-sided manner Only one OF 'he
five contests that were played on the Prospect Park
parade grounds close and that one "dS "oh
and lost by scant two runs
The BrookIyns received severe beating at the
hands Manhattans, the runs scored from .e
bat of A smedey alone being in excess OF the
total run up by the entire side OF the deIed'eu
eleven Smedley's batting the feature or the
game and he gathered in 81 in good style r D.
Prendergast and A Cleaver also were IN ioii1'
with the bat and G. Haynan had the pest oo"i-
ing analysis The only man to make sno",hs
for Brooklyn was R. Macpherson "Ho piN'
good innings Of 49,
The Prospect Park team which went tnlous"
last season with only defeat. succunnoed 10 li9
Manhattan second team at Prospect PARK IN lhe
first championship contest of the Metropolitan
League. The result however. was always IN o
and not until the last wicket had fallen dld the
vtctors relax their efforts. The margin was TWO
runs and the finish exciting.
Kings County scored handsome victory over
Columbia Oval at Prospect Park Inc VlSi'oIS
rolled UP big and disposed OF thelr oPPo-
nents for an even 80 runs. winning oy a margin
of III runs. j. P. Stuart had batting rest an"
ran up So before he retired, while r D SdrhNS u
" Barnes, T H. Clarke and F Gautier all got
into double figures The best bowling was ac-
complished by j. D. Mcclellan. who captured D
wckets at a low cost. For Columbia oval A.
Dovey and A Turville made good stand ana
scored q and IA. respectively. A Hoskns was the
most successful trundler. The totals were; hlnSS
County 161; Columbia Oval. 81
The Union County team travelled TO Prospect
Park and tried conclusions with the West Indians,
but had to acknowledge defeat by margin OF
102 runs The home eleven ran up score OF
49, OF which number A Wolcott contrlputeo n
Union County scored 53-
The Brooklyn second eleven ran up 1O1 runs
against Union County second team, and then de-
clared their innings closed Their opponents could
only tally % runs, owing to the fine work OF the
Brooklyn bowlers.
The Crescent Athletic Club team played a good
game against Bensonhurst at Timer Park and
lost by only three runs the hands of the home
eleven. The feature of the game was the batting
OF NJ. J. Beasley, who went in first for the Cres-
cents and was not out when the game ended HIS
score was 90 hut he was the only TO do any
thing with the bat The totals were: Bensonhurst,
81; Lrescents o..
The o. y. T eleven went to Bound Brook. " j.,
and was defeated by the home eleven by runs IN
a championship game of the New Jersey state
League The totals were: Bound Brook, II;
o. N T. SO.
The Patterson team won an easy victory against
Hudson County in championship game of the
New Jersey State League series at Paterson A
Bunce top scorer with 80, and douoie nsures
were added by J. Rigby R. V. Anderson and n
Smith while the last named did some phenomenal
work with the ball. and was credited with WICK
cts for 10 The totals were: Paterson 81 lot
s wickets (declaredl; Hudson County %
The Yonkers team took the Manhattan Re
serves into camp at Van Cortlandt Park, ana won
by score of 40 against g. T Rafferty, did the best
hating for the winners, while H. Loner scored 13
for the losers.
The New York Veterans gained signal victory
against the Athena Athletic Club at Passaic- N j.
getting rid of their opponents for IL runs ana
running up score of AZ