New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-09
FEATS OF PRESS
AID ENCLEWOOD
His Pitching and Batting,
Too, Are Factors in
the Victory,
JERSEY MEN NOW
LEAD THE LEAGUE
Crescent Athletic Club Does
Not Yield the Game Until the
Thirteenth Inning.

Hi lCCNtu lhhtllS'
Il remained FOR Charlie Press not
Only to pitch but also to bat the Engle-
Wocd Field Club baseball team into the
lead Of the Amateur League yesterday
when the nine from Jersey wrested
victory in a thirteen inning battle with
the Crescent Athletic Club at Bay
Ridge. With two out in the thirteenth
Press drove out the hit which won the
game for the Jerseymen by score OF
90 l.
As a contest, the game was one OF
the fercest that has been played IN
recent years in the Amateur League,
and 70 make il mere striking 1t marked
the passing Of the Crescent nine from
first place in the league standing, a
position which il held all through last
season and through this years series
until yesterday. Incidentally, the de-
feat was only the second reverse that
has befallen the New Moon players IN
two seasons.
BY virtue Of all that goes TO make up
q ball game Englewood should have
won in nine innings by shutout score,
but errors were mixed IN the right pro-
portions WIN Ailf ANN MS NAAN NtN@NN''N
betsmen were able 70 get, and were
disastrous TO the Englewood cause.
One error. a dropped hy by barney
Barnwell. captain Of the Yale '9S var
sity, was almost history making, and,
in fact. caused Barnwell 70 shed few
tears which weren't imaginary by any
means. The reason was that II was the
second error the old Eli leader has
made in his long career. II hurt Barn
well the more because il let the Cres-
cents score a brace OF tallIes, ano
eventually paved the way for a TIED
score.
Dissension in Crescents.
Dissension. so it is claimed, has
wrought havoc with the Crescent team
and has led directly TO the retirement
OF Pepper" Dalton, the scrapPy sec
ond basemen, who has been the life
OF the Bay Ridge team Tor several
seasons. Dalton, so the story goes,
had been getting on none too well with
Dan MacKay and decided TO quit. This
caused the moving OF Gil Kinney,
another former Yale captain, TO see
ond. and the placing of Cliff Throp.
who led the South Orange F. c. 20
four championships, at third base.
Ebeliug. the crack Cornell fielder,
was absent. too. and Heath, an old
Princetonian, filled in in right field.
This combination was not the unined
machine that the Crescents had IN
their days Of victory.
Doc" Wood. who pitched for the Bay
Ridge team. was hit hard and often,
but he kept the blows fairly well scat
tered. and poor baserunning by the Jer-
seymen helped him not little. They
cssayed steals when their signals were
mixed. and once Barnwell was caught
of third in { headless play on Engle-
woods part
Press. who was forced to win his own
game. pitched masterfully. he held
the Creseents TO four hits, while his
own side hammered Wood for thirteen,
and he had the situation well IN hand
at all times He was ably assisted by
Dick Lewis. q Williams quarterback Of
wear or two back, who was tower OF
strength both extensively and deten-
sively.
Lewis Proves Useful.
In the fifth inning he won fame for
himself bv backing up Riddell when
Hartman made Z poor throw 10 the
first baseman and by some fast fielding
nailed Wood, who had gone on, at see
ond. Also Lewis punched out trio
of hits that were of great valuei one
was three-bagger in the fourth frame
that scored Wilbur with one run; an
other was a single in the seventh thai
opened the way for run, following
sacrifice by Press and drive by hart
man which sent the run across, anc
the last was a single in the thirteenth
which a steal and Press single con
verted into the winning run.
Englewood scored its runs singly. i
broke the ice in the second when Rid
dell singled and scored on successive
sgfeties by Vaughn, Lewis and Wilbur
\ Barnwell added the second in the thirt
frame on his own single and steal anc
solid drive by Riddell. The redoubt
able Dick Lewis was responsible IN
whole or part for the remaining Engle
wood runs.
The Croscents scored their first rur
in the third when BALM scored after
Lewis had dropped the third strike or
him. Two more Of the Bay Ridge trooi
tailed in the seventh when Barnwel
muffed Ballin's Fly and another ruI
trickled across in the ninth when Vi
kinney reached second on scratch hi
and error. and after being sacrificed Il
third. Tailed on Hesth's grounder.
The score follows: