New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-15
ALL MONTCLAR
MOURNS BECAUSE
ENGLEWOOD WINS
Amateur League Leader
ship Copper Riveted by
North Jerseymen.
CARRIED WIRE HELPS
TO A HOME RUN
Private MCGUIRE, of the 9TH.
Gets Tangled in Outfield
Defences.

All that part of Montclair bounded
on the south by Park Street and on
the north by Mountain Avenue mourned
last night. Technically. that particular
section of Jerseys richest town is
known as Upper Montclsir. but all the
wealth and beauty of that richest sec
tion of Jerseys richest town could not
corrupt the Amateur Baseball League.
and Upper Nontclsir mourned.
Englewood. once Mon'clair's most
deadly rival, was responsible for the
mourning. because the baseball team Of
the Englewood Field Club hurled a
singing defeat into the Commonwealth
Club, OF Montclair. and sank the hopes
OF the Montclair team for the LEAGUE
championship. Englewood triumphed
by score OF ) 10 3. and il was johnny
Beckvermit. Englewood's short pitcher
with the long name. who more than
any one else crushed the Common
wealth nine. BY the victory Englewood
got body hold on first place in the
league race and practically put Com
monwealth out Of tie running.
Although the game will not 90 down
IN history as an epoch making en-
counter, it introduced to baseball for
the first time barbed wire entangle-
-.
BY way of experiment the entangle-
ments were used only in the outfeld
Yesterday. but another day may find
the base line a network of prickly wire
and the inheld maze because the ex-
pertinent was entirely successful.
I'D Mcclure. who has drilled for
years and years with the 7th Regi-
ment, was the victim of the wire in
ire seventh inning That Common
wealth tried the experiment on a real
soldier made the proof Of its effective
ness convincing. Lest the Common
wealth partisans take umbrage at these
paragraphs, II should be noted in pass
ing that the club had no such sam
gulnary designs on the Englewood in
vaders. The wire was intended as
tarrlcade against the omnipresent and
equally undesirable small boy.
But. small boy or no small boy. Pri-
vate Mcclure, of the 7th, is nursing a
badly lacerated face and body. while
Happy Dodd, Commonwealth spright-
hest as we'll as skinniest ch-hitter.
has perfectly good home run tucked
away TO his credit in the records. Nc
CURE was chasing Dodd's hit which
later became the home run when the
barbed wire got in its deadly work.
When the charge of Mcclure en-
countered the wire the charge came
to swift termination, and Mcclure
thought more of his punctured person
than the ball. which rolled away and
never was helded in.
Aside from the accident 70 Mcclure.
the game took on ssnguinary hue
early. In the opening frame Jim
Booth. the Commonwealth catcher.
was cracked or the side of the head
by one OF Beckyermit's fast ones. and
took doc" Ayres, the hospital
corps OF the league, several minutes
to bring him around. Booth went on
playing with Spartan courage and
more than once saved his team from
Utter rout.
1t was hot and Tommy Wilson, tn.
umpire, had a crouch. Maybe George
Knox got on his nerves. because George
was in one Of his happiest moods. He's
nappiest when he's riding everybody.
Well, to get back 10 Wilson, he found
MS eyeslght going bad-or maybe il
was the fog Of mosquitoes that kept
him from seeing. Anyway, he missed
some decisions at first on both teams
and when the benches began "a cali
him out he ordered first the Englewood
and then the Commonwealth benches
cleared. Even Frank Bien almost had
to duck.
Commonwealth had a fine chance 10
score in the first frame. TAYLOR
walked and then Beckvermit hit Booth
The next three men went out, however.
much TO Montclair's dismay.
1t was wool gathering on the part OF
Commonwealth that let Englewood ge:
It's big chance and three runs in the
third. Beckvermit thrashed out
double, Arthur Barnwel walked and
Vaughan Lewis raised Texas Lacquer
70 left that should have been easy for
Sinister at short, but it fell safe.
Beckvermit and Barnwell scored on
KnoX's hit and Lewis scored on Hart
mans bunt, which caught Bauswein
mapping.
Englewood scored once in the fourth
and added another in the eighth.
Dodd's homer brought in two runs
for Commonwealth in the seventh, and
hits by Booth and Bauswein scored an
other run for Montcair in the eighth.
Up 10 the seventh inning Beckvermit
had allowed only one run in fifty-seyen
consecutive innings.
The score follows: