New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
Crescents and Common
wealth Game Called
with Score a Tie.
MONTCLAIR FANS
INVADE BROOKLYN
Murray Lee, of Columbia Fame,
in Box for Bay Ridge, and
Does Well.

field at Bay Ridge yesterday for two
hours only to be told something they
already knew. That something was
that II was hot-in fact, it was too hot
for the Crescent A. c. and the Com
monwealth Club, Of Mortclair, TO play
any more baseball. and hostilties were
called off just when the cool of the
evening came. As it was, the Cres-
cent and Commonwealth teams played
nine innings in vain, for when the
game was called the score stood at 2
y 20 2.
II was a game on which much de-
,snded, for with Commonwealth lead
ils the Amateur League without de-
feat. all Of Montclair turned out and
made the long trip 10 the other end Of
Brooklyn. Added 20 the heat of the
day was the burning intense heat OF
partisanship, and when the game came
down to the ninth inning 1t
wouldn't be quite proper TO say Just
how those good folk from Montclalr
looked. It's a safe bet that a wrlnging
machine outfit in the middle OF the
field would have done land office
business.
If the game hadn't been called when
il was there is good reason TO believe
that it might have been going on YET.
Neither team found much difficulty IN
GETTING men on the bags, but they had
the greatest difficulty in having them
get anywhere once they were on.
There were lots of opportunities to
score or both sides, but good pitching
in the pinches and rapid fire heidinG
cleared up more than one douotiul
situation.
From nearly every angle the Montciair
team seemed to have the game on ice
in the early innings but the heat or
something else affected the nerves OF
the Jerseymen, and they were rolled
back in inning after inning when they
essayed to get near the plate.
Murrav Lee. the same Murray who
used 10 pitch for Columbia, was in the
box for the Crescents. It's hard to
saw lust what sort Of ball Murray
pitched. Sometimes it was good and
other times il WIS bad; at all times 1t
had his teammates on the brink OF
nervous disorders of one kind or an
other.
Murray was wild. so wild that rab-
bits and hawks. which are usually tax
en- 10 round out the smile, are all TOO
tame to describe it. And on the other
hand. he pitched the kind Of ball that
hold Commonwealth down to three hits.
nor ono Of which came when Il was
worth grain Of sand. Murray gave
half dozen passes, and TO add TO his
troubles made o couple Of wild throws
that would have been good Tor nome
runs if cracked off bat into the dla-
mond. -,
But despite all his erratic work NJ ur-
raw was nothing but q spectre when
the Commonwealth batsmen came TO
swinging their clubs at his delivery.
He didn't pitch as he used TO pitch at
Columbia. j. those days every team
knew that Murray was due to have one
bad inning that would give them from
three 10 "a dozen runs. Perhaps that's
WHY the Commonwealth players didn't
20 after him very hard. They relied
to much on Murray's past record.
On the other hand, although Pete
Bauswein was technically outpltched
by Lee. the Commonwealth twirler, on
the merits of the game, had all the
better Of it and should have won.
Randy Sides, the now portly Prince
tonian. was the only man who could
connect with Pete's delivery az all.
Randy raeped off three hits in four
trims TO the plate and he scored one
# the Cresccnt'E runs on as pretty a
squeeze play as one could have wished
for Bad BIZ Dalton, too, was thorn
IN Rauswcins side, but neither Of ms
two hits counted for more than mark
in the score book for the Crescent5.
Bauswein frightened up like a wooden
door in a damp cellar when any one
got on the bags, and il was only when
20 Ioca rrrrir,O bv the OODOSitlOn
was called into play that the Crescents
were able 10 get near the plate.
The Crescents scored their first run
in the first frame, when Lynch walked
en- the only base on balls that Baus-
vein gave. Both Dalton and Bingham
were easy outs, Lynch advancing a
base on each play. When Rosy" Rid
dell was at bat Lynch skipped home, as
Bauswein tossed a ball 70 the plate
that was high and wide-so wide that
it escaped Booth and rolled to the
backstop.
Sides made the second run for the
New Moon team in the second. Randy
opened with a double and went TO third
on an ont by Ebelng. Then Randy
squeezed home when McManus dumped
a little bunt in front Of the plate That
ended the Crescents, although they al
most scored what would have been the
winning run in the ninth frame, when
Riddell was cut off at the plate on a
play similar TO the one on which Sides
scored.
Meagher, pronounced mar, scored
for Commonwealth in the first inning.
He greeted Lee with single, went to
second on Booths out and scored when
McManus made a wild error. In the
fourth Lee seemed to be making his
anticipated ascension when he passed
Koblor and Ferris, the first men up.
A wild pitch advanced both men peg,
and Kobler scored the final run of the
game when Happy" Dodd cracked out
a sacrifice fly to Ebeling.
Kobeler was the victim of the UNI
pire's desire 20 shorten the game in the
ninth. when he was called out at first
on a hit to right field. which Ebeling
Gelded to the bag. Kobler was safe,
even Ebeling said so, but the umpire
was in a hurry 10 get near something
cold and would have it his own way.
The score follows:
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