New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-05
Bows of Lower West Side
Show They Know Fine
Points of Baseball.
ARGYLES MEET DEFEAT
IN WELL PLAYED GAME
Tom Tavis Clinches Victory for
His Side by Home Run in
Sixth Inning.

me fIUANf llfNnt0 Nt''NN u.s.
offered % the team and players Ell
tered IN the Tribune baseball touma-
mont The marks were made By an
orrreration OF ball tossers known as
rhe Celtic Juniors. who have their naoi5
tat ln Chelsea Park. az Tenth a'' anu
2Sth 81.
Bobby Burns put It right when he r..
marked. "A chiefs amang ye taN'n
notes These Celtic Chiefs have Ger
tainlv been watching the brand OF oase-
ball turned out by the clans OF NC
Graw and NcGilhcuddy, but they rave
not been content with the mere taxing
os notes: they have. on the contrary
absorbed whole chapters OF baseoaIIol-
ogy. ,....
major league bail as prOpounded b.
Tho two Macs" and by the teams III
inc Tribune Baseball League. In the
Tribune League there are no Feds, ana
rorseouently no lawyers butting mo
me national pasume. Inc lrodoe
bovs MAY baseball on the various park
diamonds of the city and not IN court
CONS They also differ in another re-
no. from, the 'ilk they have Deen
- notes from. When the umpire
N,svs cont" on a close play "Out means
con- In other words. the Judge de-
cisior goes and there is no ciamorihg
R,- N retIrn 20 the Celtic Juniors.
Tbev have played three games so lar
IN me Tribune tourney and nave won
.5e1, all. The HanOvers. the MarlDoros
and finally the Argyles have IN tnr1
bent the knee 20 the speedy Nest SO
80 The toughest battle the Celtcs
~ Thursday.
me, met me Argyles on the Chelsea
NJ o~o,0ds before a crowd that, 20
go mig league bromide. taxed tie
csnaci-v" Of the benches TO the rgnt
- lot Of the catchers' domain ana
- si5e lines 10 such an extent that
-ho ers- and third basemen mad conslo-
orsbIe trouble in locating the Whcr-
,bou+s Of me catchers. The apertur
bc+vroen the iron pickets that surround
81 me teld also we're ciogged win
-,,--,ad Of eyes when the Celucs Wen.
10 bar m the first inning.
Pobo~-son. the catcher. was the Al,-
man 20 face Davon, pitcher oil NE
Arryles. One thing about koooy tna0
.urnrised the experts on nand WIZ
Iookad for Wild swings az any Ola NoI~
~ balls was that he insisted on DaSo
pu+ting his offerings over Ihe Pla1'
where his bat could easily reacn lne"'
Tho result was that IN JlnY thPie
we're three balls on Roooy ana no
strikes. -. 90
paxon steadied sufficiently then 20
-ord -u.o .beauties" across the platter
90 pobb,. cave evidence Of worry. He
know the game and he knew the nane
al The DIace where ne was. IN snor-'
no realized ne was In "the hole ou-
suddeDIv il occurred 10 him that nc
pitcher was in a worse hole than ne
was. and ne braced himself A line hlt
over second which brought RooDy 20
drst wss the outcome Of his brace.
Young Boneu. the Celtic cen're
fielder. next strolled up win ms sueN-
Did ne try 20 knock the bal. out OF iAe
lot INFO 9sth St No He dumped a
pretty bunt in front OF the plate. wnlcn
ne beat out In the mean time koopy'
not content with reaching second. 81
his chance and sped on 20 third. when
ne made with d head-on slide.
At TINS juncture a gray-hairec jhci-
sea vIllager who was standing on the
de line. sized up the whole situation.
"Sav." he muttered, do you know
came here 20 see the kids have some
fuue didn't expect 20 see real BAL
game. but by Jupiter, them youngsters
sre no sIouches. They know the game.
Mcdonald. who plays right for the
CeItlce. felt the responsibility OF ms
position "a he faced DaXon. Those Two
rms lust had 70 come across. 50 Mac
made q mighty clout al the first ball
-ossed I'D. Like Red Smith. o. the
Superbas. however. IL seems Mac has a
-e7dercv 20 turn on the ball. Anyhow
the sphere went foul and caused a rum
pus. Not because the umpire called the
ball foul. FOR the boys, as remarked pc
fore seldom protest decision Of the
arbiter The rumpus was started by
rank outsider IN the person Of an eIec-
'-ician who was strlnging wires on
platform JOB me street 20 the north OF
the PARK T. 50 happened that Nc
Donslds drive found the leg OF the
electrician impeding It's progress and
dealt aim terrific blow just above the
ankle
The workman was engaged IN putting
lights up for the Fourth % July saie
and sane celebration. but he behed his
lob. for he was neither safe nor sane.
In fact. he was much veXed and the
boots and ieers that reached him from
ne ball field made MIN feel like
major league umpire. So he became
more vexed and decided that he would
make p warm FOR the boy VINO welded
the bat that sent the bail that mt MN.
Re therefore started down from ms
perch
John J. Mccormack. the playground
Instructor. who was umpirng me
game. rushed 20 the scafoidlng ana
poured effective oil on the electricians
ire he raminded the enraged man
that boys were boys and a ball game
bail game and such like, and wound
up By also calling the electricians at
tent.on 20 the fact that only short
span ago he TOO was a boy and not
wire strinXer. So 10 eventually turned
OF all right. and the electrician, with
smile, went back 20 his perch, while
Mcdonald again took up his Dat.
strange % sag. the interruption IN
stead Of steadying the Argyle team did
me sTac. opposite Mac MT an easy
grounder 90 Haley on third. which
leaked through the inieider's legs 20
The outfeld. A wild throw by Thomp-
Eon made matters worse and two runs
Eeurried across the plate, with MELON
al nesting on the third bag. Before
the Angles recovered their equilibrium
twO more scores were piled up
The Argyleg n their half made Two
TALES on hits by Thompson and Haley
and Wild toss BY sullivan, The celtic
taIrd oaBeman. ln the next inning the
CelticE added another run, while the
Ar2ylee garuered two.
WIN the score % I, both tean3
>sttlcd down for business. For three
innings neither team could make any
Roadway In the sixth, thanks 20 Tom
IaviE. Rno covers the keystone sack
Tor the Csltics. ono more tally Wa
ehslssd up % the credit Of the leading