Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-16
The Oritani Umpire
Defeated Palisade
On Saturday Last

The Palisade Baseball Club played
a long deferred game last Saturday
with the justly famous Oritani team
on the latter's jewel diamond at
Hackensack.
On the really fine points of the
game of baseball as played, Palisade
put it all over Oritani. On the fine
points of umpiring Oritani's man
Friday, a gentleman of the name of
McKenna, who has cavorted around
Hackensack fields for some time,
showed some of the tricks of leger-
dermain that seldom grace a game of
baseball, and which were greatly en-
joyed by the Palisadians. The Count
de Mckenna is a finished artist at
his post, and it is indeed wonderful
that his valuable services have not
been called in as sole arbiter of the
World Series. His dignity and good
taste, to say nothing of his excellent
judgment, certainly shone resplen-
dent, and contributed more than any
thing else to the afternoons pastime.
He had heard, no doubt, of how
Alexander the Great won his first
game against Boston and turned it
into one man engagement. That
he proved conclusively one man can
win a game without being himself
a player, was all too evident by his
exquisite handling of the game in
question.
If Oritani got any satisfaction
out of the to win she was welcome
to it, the thing to be emphasized be-
ing that real heightened, classy teams
really like-in fact, prefer-to win
games on their merits, and not to
have it handed to them on a silver
platter. But maybe Mack is a bet
ter friend to the Oritani's than he is
to good honest sport.
In that event, we may be excused
from further discussion of pain
full subject.
Greer and Cristoff occupied the
points for Palisade. Greer pitched
good ball for the most part, but had
enough weak spots to prove costly,
especially with the now-you-see-it,
-you-don't, slight O. hand per-
formances of the umpire. Greer is
one of the most complacent pitchers
that ever tossed a ball over. He
never at any time has complained
at poor umpiring, but he said that
this Count McKenna was a dose he
could not swallow bitter pill, in
fact, that wasn't good for his feel
ings He didn't want to yelp, he
said, but would really like to take
one good smash at somebody, pro-
vided McKenna was in the way to
hit the other fellow, he said. "Why,"
h. Dol: 10
me a pain every time | threw the
ball. got so used to having perfect
strikes denominated balls, that when
l pitched bad ones | allowed they
would count double anyway, so fin
ally | lobbed them over in the
groove. Nobody could win with
such shifty work"
Even some of the Hackensack
fans remarked that the umpiring
was dead against Greer, and one of
the boys on the side lines said, enc
Kenna is the best umpire Oritani
ever had" That was about the size
of it.
But be that as it may, the Pail
SADIE boys threw a scare into their
opponents, and almost won at that,
and for three innings were ahead of
them. With darkness coming on,
and three runs in in the fatal eighth,
Manager Logan asked the Oritani
manager for a new ball, but got no
for an answer.
For Palisade Logan was at his
best. He felded well at third, and
got four singles and double in five
times up, two of them infield hits.
He never appeared to better advan-
tage in a game of ball. Brady was
scarcely able to play ball, yet was
dandy at short, some of his stops
and throws being superb. The Pail
SADIE outfield did not distinguish
itself, standing too close in, most of
the time and thereby losing several
chances that should have been dead
outs instead of hits.
Oritani had Thormahlen the crack
of the team in the box. He got
fifteen strikeouts and yielded four
teen hits, which was not the most
finished pitching. But he had it on
Brady and Greer only, all the others
getting one or more hits. Oritani
was not particular about playing
Palisade, but she will have more
wholesome respect for her in future.
The score follows:
Palisade B. B. C..
ABB r H Pc A E
Ruckenbrod, 2b 5 2 3 l