New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-05
BARBECUE AND
RAIL- GAME ARE
POOR MIXTURE
The Commonwealth Club
Feeds Rival Team and
Then Loses It's Lead
SCORE is 3 TO 8
AS DARKNESS FALLS
Forest Hills, After Getting on
Even Terms, Loses Many
Chances TO Win.

n.,ohsu and "6arber~cures" don't
Tver ofhand reference to bar
M vii wreck any kind OF a ball
Oee.' and destroy beyond hope OF sal
gan - chances the home team may
vac. wicr the Hateful word Is men
tioned. ,..,. g.. so - 81. ,ou
.LHarver would say, with the baseball
Vos, nisved hy the Forest Hills Garden
go and the Commonwealth Club
w ~ Upper Montolair yesterday.
g g-. 1. has and the fact Is proved by
hu' Z 70 & tie score which darkness
100 the teams trying to break, and
~. 49, .lree-run lead which the Common
wealth nine had when the barber
eure" came on the field.
responsibility for dragging in the
.Asrbsr-cure" has 20 rest on somebody,
"a President Moore Of the Common
S'ssltb Club is the culprit. The amiable
~ Moore wanted 10 advertise the
H,snine OF the winter season at the
e'ub and. last and greatest, the bar
bsr-eure." which, he explained, was
somethirg like killing the fatted calf
ior The prodigal returning, only instead
a. cali YOU roast an OK (it has 10 be
Zone outside, and the prodigals In
sigSe everybody who has the price.
We'll. many. many precious baseball
-,i,utes we're consumed by President
Moore telling about that OK, and when
-isv was called again the effect Of the
ration was apparent. The Common
weaI.h team couldn't play for thinking
AZ the OK, and in a twinkling Forest
Hills had TANNED three runs across the
rlste. which effectively checkmated the
Iersevmen. That was in the sixth inn
;rr and although Forest Hills nearly
scored several times after that the
zane might as well have ended there
FOX sll practical purposes.
On an ordinary day the Long Island
team would have won with little diff
Guilty. Baron Wilkinson, the old Tiger
pitcher. was never in better form, and
held Commonwealth 70 four hits. 1t
was baseball luck that kept him from
scoring a victory, because one Of these
four hits, q triple, came in the first
inning lust after he had given bases
on balls to the first two men to face
hin. That triple scored both runners,
but it was the only time that Wilkin,
son was even fustered. He had good
control, for be gave only four bases on
balls, including the two in the first
frame, and famed ten men.
Bsusvsin. Commonwealth big Dutch
pitcher was not az his best, and the
fielding behind him was none too good
The combination should have brought
about an easy victory for Forest Hills,
but i didn't. For the first FIVE inn
ings Bauswein held the Long Islanders
70 Two hits. In the sixth frame there
we're three hits, mixed with two errors
and a sacrifice, and all Forest HIS
could score was three runs.
II every inning thereafter, except
the eleventh. Forest Hills got ct least
ore hit, snd in several Commonwealth
Clipped in errors, but TO no avail, be.
cause the gods and the "barber-cure
were on Bausweln's side.
Commonwealth scored It's second run
IN the fourth inning, when Selover
walked and scored on a brace Of errors
on Ferriss grounder.
Neeabe led of the sixth for Forest
Hills with q triple, and Bryan was out
after fouling of a dozen good ones.
Hulse then popped hit over second on
which Mecabe scored. Hillman sacri-
feed, and Bristol. who bats like q
Charlie Chaplin, was safe on Ferriss
error Wilkinson's hit scored both
Hulse and Bristol.
That ended the scoring for the day,
and in the eleventh, when the ball
couldn't be seen even with the aid Of
Aontelair's street lamps, the game was
called
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