New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
Five Hundred SILVER in Biting
Wind as Diamond Battles
Are Fought.
Standing in
Winter League

While five hundred society men and
maidens shvered the Winter League
baseball teams continued on their merry
way through their schedule yesterday az
Fifth avenue and list street, despite the
fact that old Boreas was whistline down
Firth avenue at mile minute clip
and making outdoors anything but
place of comfort.
Another Saturday double-header was on
the programme. and il no one else got
warmed mp the players certainly did as
innings The Union club defeated the
knickerbockers by a score Of to >, and
the University Club took the measure Of
the Racquet and Tennis club by a score
of II to @
There was plenty Of excitement in both
games 10 satisfy the most ra bid OF the
society fans. The long promised grand
stand had materialized through the week.
and when the players took the field il
was damned to the gates Its scant
space accommodates two hundred spec
tstors. but more than twice that number
were on the field, camped on benches
along the third base line and packed i'm
right field. II was a gala day for the
Winter League, even though the atmos-
phere had quite a sting.
The Union and Knickerbocker teams
got the proceedings under way For a
time 1t looked IS II the Union six intended
10 bury their rivals under topheavy
score. In the first inning they scored two
runs, and i'm the fourth they got three
more. About that time, however, the
KnickerbOcker batsmen began TO get the
range of the floating bulb that Ed Della
field was laboriously curving up to the
plate, and they scored one run i'm that
frame. They followed with drblets of
one or two runs in each succeeding inn
ing to the eighth after that and tied the
score.
With such stars of the gridron as
Johnny De Saulles and Harold Weetes
on their roster it behooved the Unionists
to get busy, and they did in the final inn,
ing. in as fine rally as the Polo
Grounds has ever seen the Giants perpe-
trate on the enemy the Unionists tore
into the delivery of Lawrence Hoyt for
three runs. That put an end TO the first
game, ard although the Knckerbocker
forces tried 10. reopen the argument Mag
istrate Corrigan. who was umpire In
chief, would have none of II.
The University Club got off TO a cool
start against the Racquet and Tennis
team and managed TO hold the lead. al
though hard pressed al several stages Of
the contest. George Wrenn, who pitched
for the Racquet and Tennis Club was all
at sea i'm the third inning. and before he
finally settled down and found the plate
the University Club had amassed total
of six runs. l.. $. Bigelow was the i'm
mediate cause Of Wrenn's downfall, for
he led off i'm the third with a ripping
single. and his brigade kept up the as
sault until the damage was done.
The Racquet and Tennis picked up runs
in the second, third, fourth and fifth inn
ings, and seemed in a fair way to catch
up with the University forces. when the
academicians came through with another
assault and scored four runs on five hits.
Four runs which the Racquet and Tennis
players garnered in the eighth were not
enough TO cut far ii:o the University
Clubs lead