New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-06
oUTH ORANGE VICTOR
Defeats EngIewood in Battle
for Amateur League Title.
WILKINSON HARD TO HIT
Itrahan, of Amherst, and shons
and Ayres, of Williams, Con-
spicuous in Victory.

cluD DaSeDdH team at Iil6H""ON 'NNN'
ay put the South Orange nine In
frategIc position for the championship
4 the Amateur League South Orange
utplayed Englewood in every phase OF
he game, and won as 1t pleased by the
core Of TO 3.
Barring the tie game that was played
I South Orange last Saturday, the game
gas the first Of deciding series Of three
ontests for the league title, the teams
aving finished the season with an equal
lumber Of games won and lost. BY de-
eating Englewood on It's home diamond
he South Orange team is in fair way
o take the next game-and the cham
ionship-which is TO be played at South
,range next Saturday
AS contest the game was full OF ex-
ting situations. the score being tied
vice before South Orange gathered in
nough runs to go into a commanding
sad. However there was poor playing
nd plenty OF II. and the only wonder Is
nat Inc bCOTt Wdb iiOl CosSi' W
on, who pitched for South Orange. held
Underwood TO three lone hits. but he WIS
o wild that his opponents were In a po-
ition to score time and again. but failed
@ co.~ through with the hits when need
a. a.. three Of the Englewood hits were
Practically wasted. and all the North Jer-
ey teams scoring was done on misplays
~ South Orange.
Mellon. who pitched such an excellent
anne for Englewood in last weeks con-
est. was away below form. and was
founded hither and yon. All In all, South
orange made thirteen hits of Mellon,
very man on the team getting at least
me safety. In addition Mellon uncorked
me wild pitch, which cost him run. and
socr fielding behind him put the top on
, IN all around bad day. Wilbur, the
5nglewood catcher, was practically the
yhole team in himself, for not only did
re save Mellon a good many wild heaves,
cut ne also threw out every runner VINO
ATTEMPTED TO steal second. His diagnosis
y such PLAYS was 30 accurate that he
more than any one else kept down the
south Orange score when runs seemed
IN the verge of being turned loose In a
hood.
A typical Indian summer day brought
,ut a couple of thousand ardent fans
who filed the little grandstand TO over
lowing. Automobiles loaded with rooters
some from the home town and a great
many from South Orange-lined the field.
md the clubhouse veranda was damned.
9artisanship ran high on both sides. and
vas made higher by the weird work Of
he umpires. who let their sympathies
facilitate from one team to the other. with
10 show OF Partially. Consequently they
we're both in hot water most Of the time.
victory belongs to Shons and Ayres. Of
Williams, and Strahan. the Amherst
,atcher. The two williams players were
IA the field. Shons in particular shone
both I'm retrieving fly balls and in smash
ng out solid hits. Strahan caught one
,f the best games of his career. and his
1itting was away above par. Shons got
pair of two-base hits and a single In
i've times at the bat, and scored three
IF South Oranges runs. Ayres, who
pitched for the Orange nine last week,
got hit that led up 10 a run in the
ninth. and his work all around was Of
high calibre. Strahan's chief claim to
fame rests on a three-base hit to deep
centre. which gave South Orange the win
ming run when Wilkinson damned sin
gle TO right.
I. Safe hitting almost won the game for
South Orange in the opening inning, for
after Howe had flied out three hits in q
row gave the visiting team two runs.
5hons singled. and so did Throp, scoring
shons. MoCabe's hit scored Throp, and
things looked bad for Mellon because
there was only one out. McCabe, how
sver. was caught going down to second,
and Howarth. the next at bat, tapped an
easy one to Mellon.
! wnkinson's wildness let Englewood
score two runs in It's half OF the frame
and rut the game at 2-all. Barnwell
walked and Fred Murphy was safe on a
throw that Howe dropped at second
wilbur's hit brought Barnweii in, and
Murphy scored on wiieys sacrifice n.y.
With Wilbur on third, Englewood had a
chance to 20 into the lead. but Merritt
struck out
/, For three innings thereafter neither
team had q chance to score, but in the
nfth DnEievood counted one run that
gave II the lead. Mellon was passed. and
Basnwsil's hit put him on third. whence
he scored when Throp messed up Muir
phys grounder. There were two on the
bases and mona out, but neither Wilbur,
Knox nor Wiley was able to drive the ball
out Of the diamond.
/ South Orange came back in the sixth
with lots Of fight and pushed the tieing
run across. Shons opened with double
TO centre, and took third on McCabe's
put a wild pitch at this juncture brought
him in on q trot. There was no more
scoring in that frame, but In the seventh
South Orange got the run which won the
game. With two out. Strahan tripled 10
left and scored on Wflkinson's hit to
right. Shons was the direct cause Of an
other run IN the eighth. starting of with
a double, his second Of the afternoon,
and scoring on Throp's single. Three hits
in a row gave South Orange the final run
in the ninth,
In the seventh Engiewood had chance
10 score, when Mellon, walked and eventu-
ally reached third, but he stayed there
when Wilbur popped up to Strahan
Again In the eighth. with one down,
Wiley tripled, but Frank Bien. who bat
ted for Merritt, hit into double play
that nipped Wiley at the plate.
The score follows:
ca ORANGE r C ENGLEwOOD F. c.