New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-25
Rain Drives Teams Indoors,
but Fails to Dampen
ArdOr for Game.
UNIVERSITY CLUB Is
CLOSE TO LEADERS
OvcrWheIms the KnickerboCkers.
Who Drop to Second Division
-Calumets Lose Again.

Rain drove the Winter League na'i
players indoors Yesterday. but II did not
dampen their ardor nor moisten their en-
thusiasm sufficiently to prevent them
from carrying out their original schedule
with slight notifications. the modihca-
tons being a change OF locus operandi
from tho Fifth avenue and 72d street lot
which bears the more or less appropriate
title OF park" To the 18th Regiment
Armory. The dim light Of the armory
had no erec, on the batting eyes of the
Winter Leaguers. and they fattened Their
averages at the expense Of the pitchers.
The University Club team came little
closer TO first place I'm the league stand
ing by Overwhelming the knickerbocker
Club, while the 18th Regiment added to
its average by beating the hapless Caiu-
NETS to a standstill. The University club
won by score of 80 TO IS. while the resi-
ment team defeated the Calumet contln-
gent by a score of 80 to :. The Calumets
still have to win a game and have SUI
fered FIVE straight defeats.
The University knickerbocker match
was the all-important contest OF the day
for on is outcome depended in large
measure the right OF the knickerbocker
six TO stay in the first division. The
Knlckerbockers were defeated, however,
and dropped 10 the bottom half Of the
league standing.
The battle was close until the NTH
inning, with the Knickerbockers having
slightly the better of the argument. In
that frame. however. the University fell
on Lydig Hoyt wit ha vengeance. and in
an al-hands- round batting bee sent fif-
teen runs scamperlng across the plate
That settled the game then and there,
and the five extra talles which the Uni
versity picked up in the sixth and seventh
were not needed. although the knicker-
bockers rallied and scored four runs in
their half of the closing session.
The University club scored two runs in
the first frame. but the Knickerbockers
countered by sending four across the
plate In the second. The University came
back hard I'm the third and made five runs
which enabled them to take the lead. This
marked the beginning Of Hoyts downfall
Frank Wilcox pitched for the Univer-
sity club for the first three innings. but
after the Knickerbockers had reached
him for eight runs ne was taken out and
Frank Simmons finished the game for
him.
John Reid. jr who is secretary Of the
United States Golf Association when he
is not holding down second base for the
University Club, started all the trouble
for the knlckerbockers I'm the NTH by
singing and stealing second. Everybody
hit after that. and IL was not until Tom
SlIdell went in that the knickerbockers
finally managed TO dispose Of the Univer-
sity players.
Woodward Babcock, who played second
base for the Knickerbockers was a resu-
lar Eddie Collins on the defence. His field
ing was away above par until he muffed
an easy chance in the all-devastating
fifth. but he made up for this msplay in
the seventh by stopping a liner from
Simmonss bat that looked good for a
home run.
In the opening game Harold Coolidge
pitched for four innings, and then. after
the 18th Regiment had scored q runs, de-
cided that his arm was not just right
and quit in favor OF Billy Dahlgren, who
held the guardsmen down to three runs in
the last two innings