New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-04
"Baby" Team of Amateur
League Springs a
Surprise.
COMES FROM REAR
AND PILES UP SCORE
Holman Yields Few Hits, but
Gives Plenty of Passes to
FOreSters.

Fortune apparently forgot there was
such O baseball team as the Crescent
A. c. nine yesterday, and as a result
tho Crescents got off 10 a bad start in
their first game in the Amateur League
series The New Moon team played
tho recently organized Forest Hills
Gardens nine and was beaten by a
score Of 20 3.
The diamond on which the game was
played at Forest Hills is supposed 70 be
range fer trench fighting. The
pitcher Is in hole, literally, and he
has fine practice in learning how TO use
hand grenades. The Crescent pitchers,
il may be noted, were in the hole both
ways nearly all the time. too.
The CresCents played against a COM
bination Of circumstances that couldn't
be beaten. In the first place Forest
Hills never made a mistake Of any con-
sequence, ard nearly every drive from
q Crescent bat went straight into some
waiting Forest Hills mitt. Then IN the
second place, the Crescents never got
tuned up, and no matter how hard they
tried they couldn't put punch in their
game.
It wasn't Ike the Crescent team Of
old, because it didn't fash any OF the
oldtime fight and pepper. But why
should one expect fight, with Charley
Beavers fairly bursting through his
uniform, and Eddie Butler and Murray
Lee getting in much the same condl-
ton
Murray played for Columbia as far
back as four years ago, and Eddie was
a Cornell nero two long years back.
With only youngsters like Gil Kinney
and Lew Doyle and Bill Bryan 70
match these encients, one would expect
Forest Hills 20 win. Gil played at
Yale only in 1903, or maybe II was
1899, and Lew was a catcher at Prince
ton when Heyniger was in his heyday.
No one seems TO know when Bryan
began 70 play, but he hasn't been gray
haired very long. at that.
Well. this young Forest Hills club,
with the young Kinney and Doyle and
BRYAN, not 70 mention Hunt Worth,
spotted the aged and veteran Crescents
to three-run lead in the first two inn
ings and then proceeded 70 run up
eight runs, which just swamped the
old 'uns from Bay Ridge.
Danny Holman pitched for the Cres-
cents for the first six innings, and
though he was ebay with his hits, he
was profuse with his passes, and the
Forest Hills played him for the good
thing ne was, making seven Of their
runs while he was in the box. Murray
Lee succeeded Holman, and allowed
only one run, but the horse was gone
by that time.
George Campion, who pitched ever so
long ago for some college team or
other, lasted all the way through for
Forest Hills. The Crescents touched
him up Tor six hits, but only two Of
these figured in their three runs.
Fontaine Fox, the fellow who draws
comics, played left field for the For
esters. The Crescents thought he was
as funny as his pictures until he be.
gan to snake in their drives like real
Ty Cobb Fox, as a cartoonist, missed
his calling, and he seems TO know II,
because he swaggers up 70 the plate
In true Cobb style.
Campion was wild in the opening
frame, and hit both Bad Jack Dalton
and Eddie Butler, paving the way for d
brace Of runs when Rosey Riddill ham
mered a drive to centre for TWO bases.
Mecabe's error let Jack Mallory score
another run for the Crescents in the
second. That was all they got.
Errors and bases on balls. with weird
playing in large quantities, let the For
esters score three runs in the second
without Il hit. Hunt Worth drove two
more runs across in the third, and he
sent another one in In the fifth with
q long wailop to centre. The Foresters
scored again in the sixth and Holman
was through.