New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
Shuts Out Crescent A. I.
Easily in a Rather One
Sided Game.
BECKVERMUT Is A
POWER IN BOX
Comerford Starts Well, but Ends
Up Badly in Battle on Jer-
sew Diamond.

Englewood strengthened us hold On
hrst place in the Amateur League
series by trouncing the Crescent A. c.
nine at Enclewood yesterday by a
score Of to o. II was a game that
revived the old rivalry between the
two TO white heat at first. But rhe
Jerseymen soon proved their superi-
GRITTY so decisively that what began as
q pitched battle ended In something
akin TO rout.
Mastery retreat probably would be
the present style Of terming the de-
feat OF the Crescent forces.
Too much praise for the Englewood
victory cannot be cast on the small
but hardened shoulders Of Johnny
Beckvernit. Johnny is like Pats pig,
wee but ould," and he can pitch ball
with the best. He turned back the
strongest of the Crescent bAtsmen
without effort, although he had to
face the combined opposition Of tho
enemy and the umpire, Wilson, VINO
had a decidedly off day.
Wilson's shortcomings, however, did
not affect Beckvermit's pitching much,
except TO make him use even more
care than ordinarily. The result was
that the Bay Ridge men could hardly
see the ball, much less hit it. Johnny
let the Crescents down with four hits
and gave only two bases on balls, not
10 make mention of eight strike-ort
victims.
II was q greatly reorganized team
that went on the field for the New
Moon club. Randy Sides, the old
Princeton captain; McMsnus and
Lynch were the absentees. Pepper
Dalton moved into Sdes's place at
third. Sammy Reid, who has been
playing ball as long as Frank Bien,
played shortstop and Cuyler Heath.
another Princetonian, was at second,
while WILDER, an old Englewood star,
was in right field. Despite the
change, fortune did not favor them.
Charley Comerford. the Exeter lad
who will try TO make baseball history
AT Yale beginning this year. was dis
appointment in view of the fine game
he pitched against Englewood last
month. He began bravely enough by
tanning the first three men TO face
him. but soon found that the old sdsge
Of we'll begun is half done has no sp-
plication in baseball. lis good be-
Ginning WAS only the first chapter of
his downfall.
Englewood accepted him for two inn
ings without interposing opposition Of
any kind. Then in the third Eddie
Mcclure, who has recovered from the
wounds he received in storming the
barbed wire defences Of Upper Mont
clair a fortnight ago. got the first hit
That was just note Of warning, and
in the next frame the storm broke with
o cluster of three hits, which meant
two runs With Comerfords first line
shattered, Englewood went right ahead
and pummelled him, although his
wildness and the poor fielding Of the
team behind him had not little TO do
with his defeat.
All around il was bad day for the
old timers. Hartmann, the veteran
Englewood captain. made two weird
errors, one after the other. in the fifth
inning. and Sammy Reid. VINO was weak
on ground balls. made one foozle that
gave Englewood a run in the fifth
frame.
George Knox had his usual wrangle
with the umpire. Wilson alleged that
Knox had interfered with Mcclure at
third base in the third inning and
called Mcclure out George argued
and argued. but il didn't do a bit OF
GOOD. Knox had satisfaction in his
next time up by slashing out double
10 right that scored Englewood's first
Tho ecoro folIovs.