Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-07-08
Palisade Gets Silver Cup Back In
Beautiful Game For Darby Prize,
Beating Fort Lee Handily s to l
Before Record Crod July Pasade Boys Win Cup
YearGame Full OF Thrills Palisade Battery Erce Beck
Stars In Left Catching Seven Flies Without Mutt.
BASE BALL FANS, DELIGHTED, HAVE PARADE

The second leg of the baseball
race between Palisade and Fort Lee
for the Darby Trophy Cup was played
at the Palisade Fairgrounds on the
afternoon of July 4, before very
large crowd, Palisade winning by the
one-sided score of to 1.
But for an unfortunate wrangle
between the two umpires it would
have been a shut-out of 6 to O. In
the eighth inning Tullio went out on
hot drive to Logan at third and was
thrown out at first; Farina struck
out; Lithgow sent hard line fly to
Cadien who had been shifted to center
which the latter dropped. The next
Fort Lee man up, Frate an old pro-
fessional of the Chicago Nationals
sent long, high fly to deep left
center, away to Beckmann's left, and
far over his head. He ran out and
backing into the grass took the fly
miraculously in his left hand. Cadien
had run up close to relay, and Beck
mann undertook, merely as matter
of form, to toss the ball to Cadien
In doing so the balh rolled to Cadien
unnoticed, he knowing there were
three out, and Beckmann believing
only two were out, or he would have
thrown it to the infield, as there was
a man on first. Mr.. Rosenstagel
declared it muff. Mr.. Brady, on the
bases declared Frate out, and this
brought about long wrangle of per-
haps ten minutes duration. The Fort
Lee adherants cried frantically, "He
dropped the ball! he dropped the
BALL" and other disconcerting re-
marks. Finally, in order to remove
all doubts Manager Logan consented
to allow the Fort Lee contention, and
sent his man back into position, after
they had taken their seats on the
players bench. The excitement was
intense, and Palisade and Fort Lee
fans were crying for their sides lusti-
ly. 1t was just as well that the game
proceeded, for Fort Lee, already hope
lessly beaten, would have held a
grudge, which was luckily avoided.
Many Fort Lee people and players
also, know Beckmann caught the ball.
Umpire Rosenstagel in his demands
was so positive that he finally an
nounced a time limit of five minutes
to play ball, or he would declare the
game forfeited to Fort Lee 9 to 0.
The crowd knew nothing of this,
however.
When Nolan pitched the next ball,
it was wild, bit the dirt on the plate
and shot past Perraud, Lithgow
scoring, after he had raced to third
On Frate's fly, the latter going to
second, and reaching third on the
wild pitch. Siebert then struck out,
and the agony was over.
OF the game itself, it was corker
every inch of the way. Both bat
teries were good, though Palisades
easily excelled. Nolan's pitching and
Perraud's catching were both superb.
With perfect support, barring three
minor errors, only one costly
(Cadien's muff in the eighth), the
playing was the best ever seen in
Palisade. Fort Lee was so per cent.
stronger than last year, had fair sup
port in the infeld, and excellent out
field work. Lithgow pitched a fine,
heady game, felded beautifully, and
was every inch ballplayer. He yield
81 %a,o nj i%c
what beat him for four of Palisades
six runs were earned. Hayek at first
for Fort Lee played the game of his
life. His work was great. Moth
ing got by him except he could not
successfully hit Nolan, though he
got one safety to left in the fourth
which was wasted.
For Palisade, Nolan's boxwork was
the feature, and Perraud's catching
was right alongside. Goemann at
first was UP to his standard, while
George Beclmann was a star of the
first magnitude in left. Nothing got
away from him. He held on to seven
flies, but the seventh was taken away
by the umpire and he took the count
on that gracefully. Nothing like
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Palisade.
Logan played third in his usual
faultless style. He had wild throw
to Goemann that did not cost any,
thing, but he was excused for that,
as he got out of sick bed to go into
the game. But with all of that he
played pep ball, getting two hits and
a run, one of his drives being for two
bags.
Cadien had hit and got one diff
ficult fly in right.
Robbie Ropes at short was the
candy. He quite distinguished him
self by his superb stops. He had
five difficult chances and got them
all perfectly. His playing was one
of the spectacular features of the
game. Cristoff, too, played bang up
second base, getting a hit and a run.
Mitchell didn't have chance in
center, but getting life on Siebert's
tumble in the second he came in with
one of the hits by Nolan, Ropes scor-