New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-26
MacKay Pulls Through
and Defeats MOntclair
A. 6. Nine.
SIDES CLEANS BASES
WITH LONG DRIVE
Old Princeton Captain Deals
Crushing Blow to Jersey
Men i'm Third.

Finely hitting and no small degree
of luck were big factors in the victory
Ct the Crescent Athletic Club team
over Nontclair in a baseball game
played at Montclair yesterday after.
noon. The Crescents were outbatted
and were on the verge OF their first
defeat in the Amateur League series
but they managed to pull through "a
their eighth straight victory by score
of to 1.
Inability to garner hits OF Don Mae.
KAY in the pinches was the one bio
reason for Montclair's downfall. Twico
in the ninth inning the Jerseymen had
the bases illed, but one lone run was
all they could squeeze through. despite
the fact that MacKay was wabbling and
Just on the brink OF a complete cave.
in. But the failure of the supposedly
heavy end of the Montclair batting or
der 70 produce more than a sacrifc.
As lifted NacKay out of the hole rather
than his own desperate efforts.
Aside from one or two momentarv
Mlls, the game was far from being
slow. and there were times when il
fairly bristled with excitement The
vacation season has played havoc with
the Montclair lineup and necessitated
several substitutions. Consequently
when the home team was the first 20
score there was a sudden revival OF
enthusiasm. which increased in pitch as
the game wore on.
Il is more than likely that Bill
Swerson. who umplred the game. will
find the bars up against him If he is
ever assigned to the Montclalr field
again. His decisions yesterday were
Of kind that made more than one
member say that Frank Bien, Of Engle.
wood. president of the Amateur
League. would be asked to take cog
ni4ance Of them. Both teams protested
loud and long against his decisions,
particularly against his calling OF balls
and strikes.
The Commonwealth Club of Upper
Montclair has had a request before the
league officials for some time asking
tina. Swenson be not assigned to I'm.
pire at games in which that team takes
part. and il was said yesterday that he
has been barred from the Common.
wealth field.
One decision in particular aroused
the ire of the Crescent clan. II came in
the sixth inning, following what would
have been home run drive by Beavers
if Jack Dalton, coaching on third.
hadn't paced the runner to the plate.
holding hands with him as he ran.
Syenson waved Beavers out. and after
the Crescents had recovered from their
surprise they pounced on the umpire
with a wordy protest. The bal. had been
hit into the left field tennis courts. and
was tossed out by a tennis player That
made no difference with Swenson, how
ever. and his decision stood.
Eddie Meyers, lad still in his teens.
pitched for Montclair and held he
Crescents down TO eight hits. His sup
port was not glt-cdged. however, and
in two innings the Bay Ridge slucgers
combined hits with errors and base
on balls and scored all their runs.
The Crescents dealt their first crush
ing blow to the hopes of the MontclaIr
rooters in the third inning. when
Randy" Sides. One-time Princeton tao-
tain. waded into a slow curve and
smashed it TO the tennis courts, clean.
ing the paths. Don Mckay had opened
the frame with teasing single 10 left
and Butler and Dalton drew bases on
balls. Mallory flied out to Jaeggli, and
then Sides came to the front with his
cleanup drive.
The end was not yet as to the hitting
of the Crescents. for Gil Kinney. once
a Yale captain. slammed out a two-bsg-
ger to left Beavers struck out and
Ebeling lifted a fly 20 Jaeggli, thereby
putting the side out.
Dodd doubled in the fifth, after
Winery had walked. The MontclaIr
first baseman scored a moment later
when Eddie Butler threw over Daltons
head in an effort TO catch Jaccbus
stealing, who had reached first on
ielder's choice on which WINERY was
Ripped at the plate.
Macckay again led the assault in the
seventh, when he walked, and was
pushed TO second on Buffers single 10
right Malloy's double scored bo,n
Mackay and Butler and Mallory himself
came in on Sides's grounder to Jaegglii.
Montclair scored once in the eighth
and again in the ninth.
The score follows: