The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-07

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. train).
Don Beck. C~olumbia's powerful south
paw. had too much stun for his catch
ers yesterday on South Field n Just
enough for Wesleyan. with the result
hat the Blue and White nine embarked
on another winning streak at the ex-
pense OF the Middletown collegians by a
score of 2 20 l..
Beck allowed Wesleyan three hits,
struck out ten batters and didn't issue
n pass. Beside this he split one Of
Temples fingers. grazed the index digit
OF Clu,e and so crippled the Columbia
catching stan that Coach Coakley had
to call in Bill Mannion. the former
Hamilton pitcher, who has been on the
infrmary list with a bad ankle, to
finish the game as catcher.
II was Beck who was pitching against
Pennsylvania last week when Lester
Lane, the star OF the catching stan.
had his thumb broken in two places
and his little finger badly split. LANE
may not play for three weeks II
the others get better before then It's
dollars 70 doughnuts that they Will not
be of much use anyway because they
cant hold the ,rdoubtable southpaw.
II President Weeghman OF the Cubs has
much trouble cutting his roster down
TO the twenty-one player limit ne can
solve the difficulty by farming the extra
catchers out TO Cunkley. As his pitchers
are going now IL will take big league
catchors to hold them.
Paul Westcott, who opposed Beck,
was good too, tut he had catchers who
could hold him. Westcott held the Co
lumhia clan to four hits and struck out
nine men. The " runs Columbia
scraped from his delivery came In the
second inning and were helped into ex-
istence by two errors. Mernstein got
"A solid single to right field and got q
life at second when Becker dropped
I.awaon's throw OF Beck's grounder.
Uouck sacrificed on a pretty hunt along
first base. Merns,ein and Beck moving
up a peg. Haskins nit a hard
r'yh, Al Markthaler and the big first
laseinan ~obliringly let 1t slip through
MS legs. Mernstein scored and so did
Beck, tho latter masking his run hy a
pretty slide.
We.,cott had Benson and Buonae uro
wiuglng every time they faced nm
henson struck out three times in a row.
while Benny whipped twice. The colum-
hia inncld. excepting the catcheh'
played fast ball. though. and made up
in defence what they lacked in offence.
In IN. NTH nn!ng after Webb had sin
gled luckily on n ball that n
over Ruonaguro's head as the Columbia
shortstop set himself for II. johnson got
II life on "A ielder's choice.
Columbia exhibited a little big leasue
stun In order TO make up for the failure
10 catch Webb on the first try. Beck
threw to MernsteN TO catch Johnson
sleeping. Mernstein Immediately whipped
the ball to BuonaGuro, who was run
ming hard for second base. The latter
stabbed the ball, and seeing he could
not catch Webb hotfooted for son
catching him ten feet from frst base.
Pete Lawson n Bobb Watt Wed fol-
honors in the field. The Wesleyan short.
stun was sick all through the game,
but took eight chances without an error
His prize play made Columbia wonder
what he does when he is we'll. In
the third inning Buonasuro hit n hard
crack at BeeInan. The ball bounded
suddenly, hit Beeman on the shoulder
and detected toward left field. Lawson
was right behind Beeman and caught
the ball and the fly. BY fast throwing he
caught Bunny AT irst base. Again In
the fourth inning he took Spottke's burn
Ing line drive without winc!ng. Wat
was all over too and as a got
forr putouts and nve assists.
Wesleyan's only run came in tho sixth
inning on a perfect squeeze play. john
son singled and stole second. Chaplin
WAS safe when Clute dropped a third
strike. Johnson moving to third. The
sick L.awson laid down n bunt along
first base and Johnson scored easily. The
score