New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-11
CHANGES PLAY BASEBALL
Scratch Team of Cotton Brokers
Beats Stock Traders Pride.
BOIL WEVILS HOT RIOTERS
They Lined the Path to First
Base and Yelled Out the
Winning Run.

Stock played Cotton yesterday. At leas
such was the designation Of the opposing
baseball teams on the scoreboard. Ant
King Cotton won. as the unimaginativ'
staple has q way OF winning over the les
! tangible stock certificate in the game o
trade supremacy. In BRIEF, the Cotton Elk
change nine walloped the Stock Exchang
nine where 1t hdrt the most, in their pride
The great game ran its allotted cours
on the diamond OF the Staten Island Coun
try Club, in Livingston, Staten Island
There the cotton brokers scored six run
to five marked down for their rivals, anc
with the game they won plethora OF bet
| involving money enough 10 stake the Who'll,
Cotton Exchange TO luncheons for week
And afterwards both sides, players an'
rooters. retired 10 the clubhouse, wher'
| they-broke training.
But the score does not by any mean!
measure the humiliation Of the stool
brokers They have been touted as haWnl
q real team, one possessing a uniform. fol
one thing, with n. Y. S. +. in a scrip
monogram over the heart. Their team Ia:
practiced and played together and boast:
the largest percentage OF former college
stars OF all similar teams the country over
King Cotton's representatives, on the
other hand, looked Ike Coxey's Army, com
pared with the gray and green clad regu-
lars OF the other side. One man wore
sky blue socks. Two sported blouses gus
piciously resembling DR.. Deimers justly
celebrated underwear. One man wore q
bicycle outfit, with a Jockey cap. and still
another had nothing whatever TO distin-
guish him from q business man, with his
coat off. except pair OF spiked shoes. He
didn't even show his opponents the courtesy
OF removing his collar.
Furthermore. this homespun aggregation
had never before played 4 game together
and had practised together only twice. The
Stock Exchange has had team which has
played tho Boston Stock Exchange q
matched game of and on during the season
for tho last ten years. The big Board
has become indifferent TO its prowess.
Not so the cotton traders. They lined
tho track 70 first base two and three deep
10 root for their team, and perhaps It was
their moral support which squeezed out the
extra run They made all the noise. since.
with the exception of a substitute or two,
the stock brokers played without support,
like foreigners in a hostile land.
The game was scheduled for o'clock, and
almost everybody made the 20 ferry 20
ST George. but there were enough who aid
not 70 delay things. so that by the time the
players had l!mbered up and the first man
had come 70 bat II was &:45 o'clock.
The stock brokers came 10 bat first and
were dismally succumblng 10 the AIT Of
william Tilt. who pitched for the cotton
traders. when Gayle Young, who played
third base. and Marshall Geer who caught.
made Wild throws. which brought IN two
runs. Everybody laughed. II seemed too
bitterly farc!cal.
The walkover looked complete when the
stockholders shut out the cotton boys with
out half trying, but this was 10 be the best
inning which Fred Alexander. the well
known tennis player. pitched for his COL
leagues Of the Stock Exchange team. From
then on he detc-!oratcd, while Billy TILT
improved.
IN the second inning TIT BEGAN 10 show a
little OF the form for which he was famous
when no pitched for Columbia n the
mean time w. s. Thomson. who had come
al the way from Philadelphia 20 play Sec
ond for cotton, had gone lame" in C. futile
run 10 first and George &c Gumoens. the
man who kept his collar on. had taken his
place. Let George DO Il :" the gang yelled,
and from then on George proved the mascot.
Cotton shut out Stock In the second and
then turned around and scored two runs
herself Geer hit Alexander for q two
Dagger and then Tilt singled. which. to-
gother with some wild throwing evencd the
score.
Tilt and Geer. tho Cotton battery. are
physical contrasts Tilt pitched for CO.
lumbia as late as 1896. He Is unusually
long and straight with n way OF winding
himself up like a spring TO put tho ball
over the plate. Geer. on the other hand.
carries fifty pounds more OF weight and
might make n good backstop. II he couldn't
catch the ball. He was substitute catcher
for the Princeton team or 1896. and played
right tackle on the regular football team
with "Bill" Edwards that year. II was q
foregone conclusion that II he ever got
behind the ball It Would keep on going.
These two played consistent ball through
sun and rain for the remainder OF the
game. The feature OF the third inning was
a spectacular one-hand catch by Miller, at
FIRST, which prompted the stockholders 70
ask II he might DO Hal Chase in disguise
Miller, who has a range worthy OF the
famous Yankee. played at first in place OF
Buchanan schley, who had been picked for
his generous weight. Mr.. Schley. II was
learned, decided the sun was too hot for
man OF his physique.
Each eide scored three moro runs in tho
third and then settled down. Before the
eamo was over Tilt had struck out thirteen
men. Arthur Darnwell. who used 10 field
for Yale and played second base for the
stock traders, took Alexander's place Gs
pitcher IA the seventh, but not until Cotton
had made the winning run. After that
things were not SO uneven. but 1t was too
late. a feature OF the latter half OF the
game was the playing of j. Green for the
stock brokers', which matched his name.
THE LINEUP.
COTTON. STOCK
CAPTAIN w do Gu Arthur Barnwell, 2b
moons, Is. Horny Ellas, CT:
Gayl. YntInQ gb william PGll, yh