New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
AMATEUR MINES IN Tie
Sunset Ends Fight Between
EnaIewood and South Orange.
CHAMPIONSHIP UNDECIDED
Mellen Allows Only Three Hits,
but Errors of His Team
mates Mean Runs.

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of qood scrappy baseball yesterday az
,arnoor Darkness brought the contest
IN an end in the eighth inning, when the
score was to 4, and as the iast wv
innings had been played In the heh' VI
the street lamps II was decided that the
first game Of the decisive series that Is
70 settle the championship Will nave 10
he replayed next Saturday, proDaDl! a'
EnglewoOd o5
PERHAPS if the game had been star'eu
IN time il would have been hnlsheu ioI'e
before the sun set, but 1t was Wen Oh
toward 4 o'clock when the umpire shou'-
I'D .'Plav ballw and the players belhs
,one too alert. darkness was upon them
a,voost .hefore they knew it. To all IN
tents and purposes the game shoulu h"'
heen won by Englewood early III ''e
fray. for the North Jersey team hau
chance after chance to break throush
"a score. Hits were punched in the
first and fourth innings. but 1t was not
until the sixth that they amounted u
ANYTHING. South Orange. on the othei
hand. scored all its runs on bases on
balls and errors. for they made only
three safe hits off Mellen, who did the
twirling for the Englewood nine.
Both teams presented line-ups that ola
not resemble in many particulars the
mines that fought out the regular season,
series. South Orange had importer
Ayres. the Williams twirler, who is 10
step into Davis's shoes next spring. anu
shons. the Williams third baseman, VINO
was the best hitter on the Purple nine
last wear. Also there were Strahan' 'he
Amherst catcher, and Rachlin' Heloei
who has spent most Of his sundays III
the mast summer playing with the pro-
fessional Long Branch team.
Unfortunately for South Orange Ayress
ritching was not above par, and II was
only good fielding that Kept EhgIeMoUu
from rolling up big score on the VIM
Jams twirler. Mecabe in left heId SHOWN
particularly bright and saved ASles
lot of trouble. Although he mace DIS
muff of Knox's drive in the hrst lnhihs'
he recovered himself before the frame
ended and on a wonderful throw from
deem left field caught Knox at the plate
as ba tried TO score on Wiley's hit. Alter
that he was under everything that came
his way, and in all made halt ooZen
catches every one of which would have
done credit to a veteran professional
Harris. the South Orange first oasemah'
got in the limelight too. because OF SONS
stunning plays he worked off. In the
sixth inning, when Ayres seemingly Iost
all control of the ball, Harris saved the
dav by running in on KnoX's little pop
fly and shooting the sphere TO first IN
time to double up Wilbur. AS Englewood
made two runs in the frame it's hard to
say how many they might have scored
If Harris had been little less alert.
one of the biggest crowds that has
turned ont for an amateur league game
was on hand when the teams took the
field Both stands were packed, and there
were so many automobiles that the game
had to be stopped several times while
they were pushed back Of the right held
foul line II was a very partisan crowd,
too for in the ninth inning when South
Orange had chance to pull the game
from the fire there was such din of
yelling and bOoing that the analogy 10
big league game was almost complete.
Previously there had been some racket
because the umpires had made decisions
that seemed decidedly off color to every
body except themselves. Merritty, who
umpired at Columbia University for
while last May, until both home and visit
ing teams began to protest him, was in
charge, and II was hard to see that he
had improved any over his work in the
spring.
Nothing but the worst Of luck and Me-
cabe's strong right arm kept Englewood
from scoring in the first inning. Follow
ing Mecabes muff Of KnoXs hit Wiley
damned the ball down TO left field again,
and Knox tried to score from second on
the hit Mecabe's good throw beat him
TO the plate by yard. In the fourth
Wilbur and Knox, the first two men up
for Englewood, hunted safely, and Wilbur
reached third on wild throw. but the
next three men were easy outs, and two
more hits were wasted. In the sixth,
however. Englewood came through with
the runs that broke the ice. Murphy and
Wilbur singled and Knox tried to sacri
flee them along. His bunt, however, took
the form Of a pop fly, and Wilbur and
he were doubled up by Harris and
Howarsh. Wiley's two-base hit was op-
perfume and Murphy scored from third
Merritt also got hit and Wiley scored
There was one out in South Oranges
half of the sixth inning when Redmond
dropped Ayre's fly in left field. Howe
flied out. and then Mellen, who had pitched
a beautiful game, lost control and passed
Shons and Throp. filling the bases Me
cabe fioated an easy fly to right field, but
Merritt misjudged II, and all three run
ners scored. Mecabe was left on second
when Harris grounded out to Murphy.
Englewood scored the tieing run in the
seventh on hits by Warder and Murphy,
and in the eighth made what looked then
10 be the winning run on a wild throw by
Ayes. that let BarnweIl. the old Yale
captain. reach second, and Warder's
single Redmond got hit after Warder
and the shortstop took third, but Ayres
ended the inning by tanning Mellen.
The South Orange team came TO bat in
the dusk in the eighth inning and a hit
by Howe. a wild throw by Wilbur and an
other hit by Harris scored the tieing run.
When the inning was finished il was so
dark that the ball could hardly be seen.
The score follows:
ENGLEWOoD r c. lsOUTH ORANGE p. c.