New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-03
COLUMBIA NINE
in TIE BATTLE
WITH QUAKERS
Darkness Puts End to a
Gripping Fifteen-Inning
Contest on Diamond.
BY JAMES 5. O'NEALE.


Philadelphia. May . The powerful
undcfcatcd Columbia machine. that
has won seven straight games. was
held to tic score here to-day by the
University OF Pennsylvania nine in a
gripping determining contest, stopped
only by darkness. Seldom has Frank
lin Field seen a tighter game OF ball.
the tally being to .. with the final
eight frames scorclcss for each team.
Magnificent work by the Penn in
field robbed the Blue and White Of a
victory. aided. undoubtedly. by the
breaks that went against Coach Coax
ley's splendid aggregation at impor-
tant moments. Four lightning double
plays cut down the New York boys
just when IL appeared that runner
might cross the rubber.
One Of these plays came in the
ninth on the hit and run. when Mern-
stein slammed what would have been
= hit through the box. Schimpf, how
ever. was covering second to catch tho
runner and the ball came right into
lis hands.
Great twirlinC featured the contest.
Chunky Spielman went the full dis
lance for Penn. although he threw
scarcely a pitch that was not either a
splitter or a curve. His own good work
and the support accorded him by his
mates held Columbia AZ bay, neither
one OF the visitors runs being earned,
although one resulted from a base on
balls.
Don Beck started for Columbia and
pitched good ball for six and two-thirds
innings. but then commenced TO skid,
after he had made a desperate run and
slide in Columbia's half Of the sew
cnth. trying 10 score from second base
on a hit. Big George Smith succeeded
the southpsw and put his foot down
with emphasis upon any further scor-
ing. Penn made exactly three hits
while the Port Chester propeller held
sway.
Dutch Spielman famed nine, while
Beck whitfield seven and Smith eight,
an average Of one 10 the inning for the
Columbia twirlers. These fifteen
strikeouts added considerably 10 the
putout column Of Shady Lane, who IS
credited with eighteen.
On the other hand. PENIS busiest
station was around second base. where
Schimpf and Todd, although each made
an error. covered so much ground that
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eleven assists between them. The Md
way guardians saved Spielman.
J. Howard Berry, the Penn pentathlon
champion and the man whose hit beat
Yale, was planked on the elbow by one
Of Beck's shoots in the first inning and
was forced 70 retire from the game.
Berry was in considerable pain and IL
is not known just how serious his IN
l iurF is.
I Spielman's splitter had fast break
IN the first inning and he famed the
first two batters Penn tailed one Of
its runs in its first half. little Joe Sui
livan. lead-of man, working Beck for
pass. Then Schimpf famed, but Lane,
who had a bad day behind the bat and
At it. dropped the third strike and then
drew Mernstein of the bag with MIS-
throw, Sullivan tallying. Todd went
out. Beck 70 Captain Bobby Watt, VINO
covered first. and Southpaw Don then
planked Berry, but got the next two
men.
The New Workers came night back IN
the third. after one OF PENIS double
plavs had halted them in the second.
Benson was safe on Schimpf's misplay
and Spottke sacrificed On Lanes out
Benson took third. Captain Watt sin
cled TO centre on the first pitched ball,
tallyinC his tcammate. Splelman
caught Watt Of first with fine balk
motion. and Watt kept the Penn in
field chasing him for some minutes be-
fore he expired. breathlcss.
Columbia went into the lead in the
sixth. With one down Watt walked.
Laird. the old Princeton outfelder, now
in Columbia Law School. singled 50
sharply TO right that Watt had no
chance TO make third and remained at
the middle hassock Buonaguro, the
freshman shortstop, forced Laird at