New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-05
CRESCENT A. c. NINE
BEATS 9TH REGIMENT
Weird Playing and Umpiring
Make Baseball Game at
Bay Ridge a Farce.
MANY ERRORS BY SOLDIERS
Runaway Victory Gives New
Moon Players Almost Ger
tain Prospect for the
Championship.

Weird playing and weird umpiring COM
blned to make the game between the
Crescent A. C. and Seventh Regiment
baseball teams at Bay Ridge yesterday
farce. The home players won by a
score OF 10 to 4. more because the runs
were forced upon them than because
they earned them.
Errors galore marked the play OF the
soldier team and these, together with
pitching that was far below the standard
OF the amateur league, gave the New
Moon combination a runaway victory.
BY turning back the Regiment nine the
Crescents cllnched their hold on the
leadership of the league. and unless the
team breaks down in the second round
OF the series they should win the cham
plonship with ease. The game yesterday
was the first between the Seventh and
Crescent teams and victory for the SOL
diers would have brought the mines TO
tie with the deciding game to be played
next week.
Poor support for the pitchers was the
chief cause Of the overwhelming defeat
five frames. and although he was touched
for eight singles, he kept them fairly well
scattered. Several OF the hits would have
been converted into sure outs with any
kind OF good fielding.
Gorsch succeeded Mellon in the sixth
and did not give any great evidence OF
being much better than the latter. To
add 10 his confusion. his support crum-
pied behind him so that in his first inning
on the mound the Crescents reached him
for three runs on a combination of two
bases on balls. three errors and a sacrifice
hit. In the next frame he was touched
for a home run and triple, both OF
which would have been outs If the Sew
enth's fielders had been awake.
Errors OF omission were as glazing as
errors Of commission on the part OF the
soldiers. and toward the end Of the game
the Crescents seemed TO be infected too.
so that in the last few innings the play on
both sides was ragged Indeed. Luck,
however, seemed TO favor the Crescents,
for when they made errors they made
them in such a way that they could be
turned 10 good account later In the
eighth, for example. the Seventh opened
with two rousing hits. and base on
balls filled the bags. Bill Dalton, the
Crescent third baseman. made a stab at
vicious drive by Bryan and just
knocked the ball down. BY a whim of
the god Of chance the ball, instead OF
rolling TO the outheld, Struggled up TO
third base, and man was forced out
even before Dalton picked 1t up and
touched the bag for the play.
Randy Sides. with the assistance OF
dumb plays by the soldiers, had hand
some batting average for the day. He
got a single, a double and triple out
OF five times up and reached first on
another occasion when Gorsch, playing
centre field, dropped his fly in the third
inning.
The Seventh scored a run IN the first
frame on base on balls and a hit by
Gorsch. The Crescepts lost no time In
getting out in front, however. for in their
half of the frame they scored twice on
two bases on balls and a double by sides.
They grabbed another tally in the second
and In the third settled the game beyond
doubt when they smote Mellon for four
singles, which, with a base on balls and
an error, gave them four runs.
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