New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
FOREST HILLS
NINE SHUT OUT
AT ENCLEWO0D
Beckvermit Pitches Tight
Game, Only One Man
Reaching Third.
A FINE STRUGGLE
FOR SIX INNINGS
BarnWell's Catch Chokes Off a
Ninth-Inning Rally That
Looked Dangerous.

Englcwood shut out Forest Hills in
an Amateur Baseball League champion
, ship game played at Englewood yester-
day, and thereby narrowed the margin
that separates it from the Common
wealth Club, of Montclair, at the top of
the league standing. Englewoods vic
tory was measured by to score. a..
For six innings the game was a bat
tie, with neither team able to get a
man across the plate, although oppor-
tunlties IN plenty were not lacking. 1t
was in the seventh session that Engle-
wood got down to a working basis and
tailed the three runs that won the
game.
Gil Kinney, the Forest Hills short
stop, who is trying hard to make every
one forget how long he has been play
ing ball, felt like a -year-old in
rompers when he bumped into Arthur
Barnwell, who has been playing centre
held for Englewood since a centre field
was built on the Englewood grounds.
Barnwell, so somebody said Yesterday.
invented centre field, and he played
that position first for Yale when some
OF his mates on the Englewood nine
I yesterday had not yet begun to say
the Cs.
One who wants to track the deadly
Barnwell down in history will find a
thrilling story. He has always been
sure death for fies-hy balls, you
know-with one lone exception. All
through Yale and all through years and
years of playing at Englewood Barn
well was never known to let a fly get
away from him until one day last sum-
mer. when he was centre fielding
against the Crescent Athletic Club at
Bay Ridge. Then-and even now, when
Arthur thinks of it, he weeps-he made
n muff of such, a little, teeny baby fly.
Now, all this has been necessary to
get tho stage set, or, as the lawyers
would say, work the jury into the
proper state of mind for the apprecia
tion of a catch that this same Barn
well made yesterday. 1t was along in
the ninth inning and Forest Hills was
in dying spasm at the bat-a spasm,
by the way, that for a moment looked
threatening despite Englewood's three
run lead Here it vas that Barnwell
saved the day by racing IN like colt
and frisking up low driven liner right
from the grass. There were no daisies
in Arthur's centre field. That catch
nailed the coffin of Forest Hills and the
obsequieS soon followed.
Everybody in Englewood has an auto
mobile. and when Barnwell made the
catch there was Just a perfect chorus
of honkings and squawkings and
shriekings. II was almost like the FIN
ish of college boat race, with Yale
winning.
But to get back to the meat Of the
game: Forest Hills was beaten not so
much by Englewood as it was by john
ny Beckvermit. That's an awfully long
name, and it's no wonder the foresters
got tongue-tied before they could even
sight his delivery. But Johnny isn't
half as long. Standing on tiptoe he
can just shade five feet. But standing
any old place at all, he can pitch with
the best of them.
Big George Wilkinson was Johnny's
immediate opponent, but there the COM
parison ends, because Johnny ha |
everything that George hadn't. Three
widely separated hits were all the for
esters could get from Johnny, and he
gave only one base on balls.
George, on the other hand, issued
passes like a hustling press agent, and
when that method was too slow, he
nicked a few of the Englewood bats
men and put them on the paths with
out further ado. With all the assist
ance they got from Wilkinson it's hard
to see why the Jerseymen didn't score
a peck or two of runs, instead OF the
three they manufactured with much eff
fort in the seventh frame.
Lou Doyle, who once was a college
hero, too, Just like Barnwell and Kin
ney, only at Princeton, instead of Yale.
had an off day. 1t was so far off that
it missed being there by almost a week.
Everybody who wanted to steal base
| on Doyle did so, and Whitley Hartman
at one time or another in the after
noon stole second, third and home.
There should have been runs in some
number, at least in the first six inn
ings, but just as soon as man got
around to second and was in a fair
wav to 90 home a cylinder head would
blow or tire would 90 bad and ditch
the rally.
But in the seventh Englewood got
everything working tremendously, and
pulled through. There were two out
when the drive began and three out
when it finished, and that shows how
compactly Englewood had to work.
Vaughn Lewis (the same who used to
! play for Williams was recipient OF