New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-26
Go Into Third Place, While
Dividing Double-Reader
with ChifedS.
HOLT THE HERO OF
WINNING STRUGGLE
Drives Ball Over Fence, with
Two on BaseS-Finneran
oses or Finneran Day.

p~osiGent Gilmore OF the ftuele a.
League. John Bunny. OF the MoNie
LEAGUE" and some ten thousand oIGi
rarv citizens and citizenesSes saN ''o
fsst-.ravelling Tin Tops breah etcu
with the Chicago Feds ut W aShlH N.ol
Park Yesterday afternoon. nc 80
Of the first game was TO > III laFoi
Of the breadmdkers. while inc SCooi.o
conflict vent 20 the credit OF inc
dorghmakers and leaders 81 the a.
legged outlaws by a count OF 20 w.
Incidentally. the Tip Tops Jumped lh'o
third place. as indianapolis met
double defeat i 60
seeing the calendar when mas SUI
vived several centuries smeared WIN
new names. It has seen, FOR example
: Monday superseded by CoiumDuS
Day. although the schedule makers
rea,Iv went looney in stretching the
baseball year sufficiently, TO maHt ..c
change. or course. Charles II. hooet..
is 10 blame for such CONDITION o.
things. Everybody knows that
The Wards. who at present rule the
doetinies o. the park. did little stunt
Of tho same kind yesterday. They an
nounced that plain Saturday had oeen
ove~vorked and that Finneran was
much more suitable cognomen. u was
Z, mistake. John Bunny. in his box
near the home team bench. noticed II
at once. and oven the toy balloons
,yhich we're tossed about the Grand
stend lost their buoyancy before the
afternoon was over.
# any change Of name was neces,
sary. the day should have been called
Holt Doy. for IT was lanky Al, the TIP
Ton shortstoD, who put life into the
festivities by winning the ilrst oattle
for his team. Al came 20 bat IN the
eighth inning. with two on base ana
the Tin TOPS two runs behind. Ihere
was no you know me. AL swaggef
in his strut to the rubber lie swung
his bat i'm a sheepiSh way. too, as ne
faced Thinkers man. McGu!re, VINO was
Prescribing on the mound. Whatever
dose Mcclure served. 1T somehow JUST
suited Al. and he drove the phi over
the right field fence.
The runs which resulted from the
blow were all sufficient, especially
when Tinker obiigingly struck OUT III
the following inning with two men on
the bags. Tinker was naturally pee'-
ish over the weakness he mad az
PLAYED. and showed IT, Just as he mas
done hundreds of times before. by CIV
irr his futile bludgeon a mad hurl
toward the bench That helped a lot.
The first game was close throughout,
although Tom Scaton was hit hard.
brilliant stop made by Westerzll IN
the second inning. which resulted IN
double play, and the batting OF AWll-
ing. who made home run. double ana
two singles. were noteworthy features.
Finnoran appeared on the mound for
the Wardmen in the second contest
He had to-. for. as told before, 1T was
his day. He probably did not care
very much about pitching, but IN add
ton to his regular salary, his Newark
friends had taken up collection and
bought a gold watch and chain for him.
They chose this time to present the
jewelry, so he just had to show him
self
The presentation Of the watch was
gracefully executed. and so was the
presentation Of the game to the visl-
tors by Finneran i'm the third inning,
when all the runs needed for victory
followed three bases on balls.
II was not all Finneran's fault. how
ever. for his teammates just couldn't
hit one Prendergast. who twiried for
the Chicago nine. The name Of Prem
dergast is popular in Brooklyn, any
how. at least in political circles. Joe
did one thing, though, that stamps him
as out of the ordinary. He made the
first hit for the Tip Tops, despite the
hoodoo ever in the train of gifts to
baseball heroes