New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-30
BEANS SHOW DECLINE
New York Curb Team Beats
BoStonians by 18 to 7.
DINNER FOLLOWS GAME
Raid on Coney Island To- day
Expected to Cause Weaken
ing in Both Markets.

After an afternoon Of unprecedented &C
tivity In New York the curb market closed
at 40 o'clock yesterday afternoon with an
advance of IS points to its credit Beans,
however, were nervous. and. though strong
toward the last. failed TO respond IN time 10
the upward tendency, closing II points
short
Which is how a Wall Street ian" might
inform you that the New York curb base
hall team beat the nine Of the Boston curb
by score OF IS TO :. The game was
played at Washington Park. Brooklyn be-
fore field OF embryo fnancicrs, telephone
girls and ordinary baseball bugs"
II was almost AS exciting as strenuous
day on the curb, according TO the verdict
Of those who have been through both
When the teams lined W for the initial
ball the betting even money. with the
odds on the home team II even money was
not TO be found But past history gave not
the slightest inkling OF clew as 10 what
the result would be, for the rrst run-in
of the curbs. in 1879. resulted IN victory
for Boston by q score OF 10 t. and the
second, the following year. favored New
York by the same reckoning. Last year
there was no game.
BY all the laws Of chance yesterdays
game should have been fought to a tie un-
til darkness made II impossible to deter
mine the winner But baseball regards the
laws of chance about as far as the buying
on margin does, and no whit further
Therefore the New Workers corncred the
market in the first inning and hung onto
1t until the Boston brokers decided they
I'D Loot uh Of gf.fh
In the interim. however. the plucky raids
Of the intellectuals on the bulls position
furnished spectacular entertainment
The youthful brokers who represented
the home city, clad in new ball suits made
for the occasion, old ball suits saved from
college or just old suits with straw hats
to match, ran onto the field amid a thunder
Of applause at 2l5 o'clock.
Frambach Loses the Ball.
Charlie" Frambach crack catcher. even
to his shape. delayed their practice. three
minutes by losing the only ball in the right
field bleachers on the first try. Charlie"
used to catch for Columbia, and just want
ed to see whether his eye had been dimmed
by the dust Of Broad street
The ball was finally found. however. by
one Of the urchins who came In on COM
plimentary passes handed out to all neigh
boring refreshment houses, and practice
proceeded At 3 o'clock sharp Irwin, first
baseman OF the Boston team, stepped to
the bat
He sent the first ball pitched whirIing to
deep left. Captain Ned" Murphy, who
followed him, forgot for a moment how
he played at Notre Dame. and got caught
at first. But Bill" White. the next man
TO face Charlie" Borg. the Rube Marqusrd
Of the financial Giants managed to reach
'Arst in the way he used TO when playing
for Harvard advancing Irwin to third. A
moment later Irwin crossed the plate with
the aid Of Steutzers grounder.
1t was run, and the few Boston hackers
present set up a feeble howl OF applause.
1t was the only chance they got for four
innings.
Captain Benny" Manowitch started the
stock OF the home team on the rise by a
brilliant slide TO second on an error OF
Captain Murphy. Thereafter Murphy didn't
make any errors. But this fact failed to
worry his opponents For the reason he
didn't make them was because lie stayed
religiously away from his bag and allowed
the New Workers to steal as often az they
liked They liked pretty often, as it turned
out.
Captain NANNY" Steals Home.
Nanny" as they called the captain, liked !
It so well. in fact, that he stole home the |
first chance he got and was followed by
willie" Allen when Boston became fus-
tered and lost the ball. Not long after |
Pitcher Borg crossed the plate on another |
error from Massachusetts. bringing the |
runs up TO three. That was all for the first |
inning, but they were added to consistent |
ly. A glance at the score below will give |
details.
Al the end Of the third Boston had be- |
come so weak that desperate measures !
were planned. "Bill" White was sent into |
the box in place Of Pitcher Brown and |
offered three balls IN succession as a sam
pie of his ability. The stands went wild,
but the next three balls didn't. When the
crowd recovered It found that "Willie"
Allen had famed. New York's nine runs
Of the inning before we're increased by
only one. The stampede had been stopped.
At that Boston began to take heart. Sew
eral OF its more enthusiastic adherents
tossed coins into the bleachers with an eye
to procuring vociferous support for their
team. The scheme worked 10 perfection.
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