New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13
SCHOOLBOYS
FIGHTING FOR
TRIBUNE MEDALS
Three Teams Decidedly in
Race for Manhattan
Baseball HOnOrs.
BROOKLYN LADS, TOO,
ARE GOING STRONG
Borough Title Across Bridge Is
Likely To Be Won by Team
of p. s. No. 9.

Three teams out of tho nine that
started in The Tribune baseball tour
nament are fighting it out for the gold
silver and bronze medals and the
championship Of the Borough Of Man
haitian. They are P. S. III, P. S.
and P. s. 90.
Every one Of the boys Is bound tc
win a medal, but they all want the gold
ones, so the fight this week in the final
round robin tournament promises to be
a keen one.
This has been a year OF surprises in
the elementary school fixture now
being conducted under the direction OF
The Public Schools Athletic League
The added incentive of medals and The
Tribune uniforms has brought more
teams into the contest this year than
ever before in the history of the fxt-
ure. The contests have been keener
too.
For instance, the team from P. 6. s.
which up TO this season has been con-
sidered more or less an outsider, came
out and made a clean sweep in the
elimination round of the fixture, de-
feating P. s. TO- the borough champion
in the closing game, and has continued
its winning streak in the final round.
But p. s. will have its work cut out
for II in the final round, for both P. S
III and P. S. 95 have good teams. P. s
95 will be in the thick of the fight, take
the word of Halstead, its athletic d.
rector, for that.
Halstead has three boys on his team
Of whom he is proud, and not without
reason. Clancy, the pitcher; Marotta
the catcher, and Francis, who plays
first base. have been big factors in the
fight through the elimination and sec
end round of the fixture.
The other members Of the team are
I OF far behind in ability, and while
none of the Fed scouts is watching
them as possible candidates their game
is well up to the sand lots standard.
1t looks as though P. S. will carry
off The Tribune medals and borough
championship in Brooklyn. So far in
the final round this team has not been
beaten, and all Of the games were won
| handily. Last week p. s. 8 defeated
| P. s. 10, the winner of the P. S. A. L.
/ honors in greater New York last year
| by score of Is 10 10. II was the
| first defeat that the latter nine has
suffered in three seasons.
A goodly contingent of rooters from
/ both schools turned out TO watch the
battle on the Parade Ground in Pros
pect Park, and the supporters of both
sides found much to cheer over.
The game was one of the best OF
the season. P. S. 9 got off to a good
lead in the first two innings. Then
/ p. s. 10 did a little batting and went
into the lead. Two batting rallies that
Melted five runs apiece won for the
Vanderbilt Avenue school
p. S. 10 was leading by TO when
P. s. 9 came TO bat in the eighth
/ inning. Daniels opened the frame with
a single. and stole second and third
/ lombard, who was in the box for
/ p. $. 10, struck out Roselle, but passed
Kney. The hopes of the P. S. rooters
went a-glimmering when Griffith struck
out
Then De Silvio, the Ty Cobb of
/ ?. 5. 9, drove in the tieing run with a
! single. lombard wabbled a little and
/ put one over just where Jennings
wanted il. His drive to centre sent
in two more runs. Not content with
this, Gallagher, Miller and Kelley fol-
lowed with safeties for two more runs.
Daniels, coming to bat for the second
time, ended the inning by grounding
out.
One Of the features Of the game
/ was the pitching OF Roselle for ?. s. 9.
who struck out fourteen boys.
Perhaps one of the longest games of
/ the tournament was that between P. 6.
| 1913 and P. S. 149. The former won
/ by score Of II TO 10 in fifteen innings
/ in a contest full of hard hitting and
some clever fielding. In another game
/ ?. :. 70 beat p. S. 147 in a one-sided
! game by a score Of 10 70 6.