New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
South Orange Defeats Engle-
wood in Hard Struggle.
PITCHING DUEL THROUGHOUT
One Game Remains for Each
Team, and Both Have to Meet
Stiff Opposition.
AMATEUR LEAGUE STANDING.

The South Orange Field Club loomed up
as a strong contender for its fourth con-
secutive Amateur League championship
by defeating the Englewood Field Club on
it's home grounds. at South orange. n. j.,
yesterday by score Of 20 l. The victory
places the South Orange team on an even
basis with Englewood. which has won five
of the seven games played, including an
early season victory over the three-time
champions.
The contest was one Of the most sensa-
tional played during the season. Both
pitchers received splendid support from
their team mates but It remained for the
South Orange players to do the more
spectacular fielding. by which apparently
certain safeties were turned into outs
Throp and Victor Lewis, who guarded
short and third base, respectively, for the
South orange club, made a combination
through which the visitors found II iinpos-
sibe to sneak hit. Trop speared four
line drives, while he had five other oppor-
tunities, only one OF which he bungled,
falling to throw out the runner by close
margin. Lewis also was a thorn in the
side OF the Englewood nine, intercepting
two smashing hits, while he had four fine
assists
In the ninth inning Knox opened the
frame by triplng to left field. Ted Merritt,
the former Yale player, followed with a
hard drive to Lewis, but the latter held
Knox on the base and then threw out the
batter. Warder, at shortstop for Engle-
wood, accepted nine opportunities without
the semblance Of flaw, while Merritt
running catch of a long fly from the bat
OF Shons
For six innings the large crowd OF spec
tators witnessed an interesting pitchers
duel between Clifford Ayres, Of Williams
College, who had been recruited cor the
important battle by South Orange. and
Justus Hartwell. OF Yale, on the mound
for Englewood. The latter however, was
the first to give way OF the ten hits se-
cured from the delivery Of HartweIl five
were punched in the seventh inning for "A
total Of three runs which advantage the
upper Jersey players were unable TO over
come.
The Englewood batsmen succeeded in
finding Ayres for seven hits, but they were
we'll scattered. Ayres was strong in the
pinches, and Robert Lewiss fine work in
the catcher's box gave him plenty OF con-
fidence
For Eng!ewood, Knox and Bien singled
In order in the second inning, with one
out, but were left stranded when Merritt
struck out and Warder went out to V.
Lewis. South Orange broke into the run
column in the fourth by the punching Of
two singles and a base on balls. Flynn
received the gift and advanced 10 second
on sacrifice by Throp. Macabe then sent
hard single to right field and Flynn
scored ahead OF Biens return throw to
the plate. Worth also followed with a hit,
but shons forced him. and Howarth was
thrown out by Warder.
Englewood tied the score in the fifth.
V. Lewis got Murphys hard hit, but War
der singled to centre Hartweu fouled out
10 Flynn and Barnwell received a base on
balls Murphy, a former Yale athlete,
drove single over second base, whica
tailed Warder. Thereafter, with the ex-
ceptton Of the ninth inning. only three
Englewood batsmen stepped to the plate in
each inning
The seventh inning, which proved disas-
trous to Englewood, was opened by Shons.
who singled over second base Captain
Howarth neatly sacrificed him TO second
and Shons went TO third on Robert Lewis's
nit. The South Orange runners then put
through a delayed steal, Shons scoring.
This seemed 10 unnerve Hartweu Ayres
followed with the third safe hit. which
scored Lewis, and took second on the
throw home V. Lewis was out on a hard
hit to Warder but scored on Flynn's hit
10 centre field. Throp also singled. but
Macabe, who was the eighth batter to face
Hartwell in the inning, grounded out to
Wiley.
Ayres pitched some sparkling ball in the
hnal frame, Knox sent the ball 10 the
brook for three bases but was left there.
Bien pop-fied TO Throp, while Merritt and
Warder were easy outs on infeld taps
Both the South Orange and Englewood
teams have only one game each 70 COM
plete their schedule. The former meets
the Crescent Athletic Club, of Brooklyn.
which defeated them early in the season.
on the Half Moons field at Bay Ridge.
The Englewood team will face a hard op-
ponent in the Commonwealth Club, which
has been playing strong game.
The score follows:
SOUTH ORANGE. ENGLEwooD.
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