New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-29
CRESCENT A. c. NINE
WINS THRILLING GAME
Defeats EngIeWOOd Field Club
Players on Home Grounds in
EIeven-Inning Contest.
HOSTS RALLY IN NINTH
Even Up Lead by Four Runs
and Twice Keep Visitors
from Scoring by Flashy
Double Plays.

The Crescent Athletic club defeated the
Englewood Field club baseball team in 4
hard fought eleven inning battle at En-
glcwood yesterday by a score Of TO g.
The Crescents apparently had the game
well I'm hand until the ninth. when the
Jerseyites. with a fusiliade Of hits drove
four runs across the plate and sent the
game into extra innings I'm the tenth
only the headiest kind of fielding saved
the Crescents. when Englewood had a
base runner nipped at the plate.
II was a contest Of thrills from the out
set. The New Moon players made d run
i'm the opening frame. thanks TO loose
playing by the home talent, and they
added another 20 their score In the ifth.
Englewood came back in the following
inning and tied il up, only TO have the
Crescents go into the lead again IN the
eighth by a One-run margin.
In what should have been the last
frame the Cresccuts sent three runs
across the plate and seemed TO have the
game safe. Holman. the Bay Ridge
pitcher. however. grew careless. and En-
glewood hammered out four runs. teng
up the game again. I'm the tenth close
wood from winning then and there, but
I'm the following frame the Crescents had
their second wind and counted the win
ming run on two hard hit drives.
Swenson. the Englewood twirler' was
hit hard i'm the early frames, but he
steadied down and would have won with
ease had il not been for the lapses OF MS
teammates. Although he struck out only
three batsmen he passed only one, ana
the hits that were made off him were
well scattered. Holman, who pltched LOT
the Crescents, a brother. by the way OF
the Englewood catcher. went well unul
the ninth. when two hits and three bases
on balls almost proved the undoins OF
the Bay Ridge players.
Until the sixth inning only one scratch
hit had been made off Holman, but IN
that frame he began TO grow unsteady
and his control gradually disappeared as
the game neared its end. He was sue
ceeded In the tenth by Wood. who came
near letting EnglewoOd win in MS hrst
inning on the mound. In the eleventh
when he had warmed up. he disposed OF
the Jerseyites in short order.
Flashy double plays by the Englewood
nelders kept the Crescents back twice
when they were in a fair way TO pile up
the runs Randy Sides, the old princeton
captain. opened the sixth with slasning
drive through centre field. Tom Brown
followed with another 10 left, ana with
men on first and second and none out
the situation was grave for the Jersey
ties. Reid drove a high fly TO BarnweA'
who captained Yale back in the ~ > ana
Barnwen by a wonderful throw, caught
Sides yard off second.
In the eleventh, after the Crescents had
scored their winning run, Swenson, win
the assistance Of Kinney. retired two oil
the Bay Ridge men on double play
Wood. who had sent Ebeling IN with the
winning run on hit 10 centre, was on
second. when Bard tapped grounder 10
Swenson. The Englewood pitcher made
the pickup almost at second base ana
after chase on the lines tagged out
Wood: Bard meantime had come along
from FIRST, and Swenson. after making
the first put-out, tossed the ball TO Kin
ney, who touched out Bard.
There were several sterling fielding
features in the afternoons play, chief Of
which was a catch by Ebeling off the net
surrounding the lawn tennis courts. The
hit, a long fly by Holman, the Englewood
catcher, would have been good Tor a
home run had it not been for daring
Jump and one-handed catch by the Cres~
cent fielder In the ninth Bard made a
wonderful pickup Of single by Bien in
centre field and sent the ball in to second
base SO quickly that it nearly forced a
runner out