The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-17
Policemen Win Baseball
Cup From FIren1en, 1913
Fifteen Thousand Fans at Ebbets Field Watch Police
Nine Regain the Trophy Which Department
Lost Six Years Ago

The Police Department baseball team
laid aside nightsticks for bats yester
day afternoon and sent the Fire De-
pertinent nine home from Ebbets Field
with the short end of a 10 to score 70
hang drying in their hose all winter
They thereby clinched possession Of the
Chief cup. the emblem of supremacy In
baseball between the two departments.
and regained the trophy for the first
time since 1913.
The sixth inning was comparable to
q three alarm fire. for the Blue Sox
clustered a half dozen hits. which
yielded four runs, and decided the gams
then and there. When the smoke hal
rolled away, or at least when the fire.
men had the conhagration under con-
troll. Lynch, their box artist. had been
scorched from his station and retired.
while the band in the police section
played a funeral march. Marshall
quenched the blaze until the eighth in
ming, when the "coppers." assisted by
Fitzpatricks error, entered two more
runs on their "blotter."
Their rooters in the third base stands
were jubilant, their band played mer-
rily and the gong from some patro!
wagon, which u fan had carried for Jusl
such time, added to the din on the
other side OF the field the firemen and
their guests sat quietly. oozing no en-
thusiasm and seeing small chance OF
outdong their opponents 1ubllation.
They remembered that they scored the
first counters, thanks to De1npsey's
home run clout TO deep centre. in the
second inning, but those runs looked
lean In comparison with what the po-
lice were reaping from their consistent
clouting.
Great Day for Young Fans.
If Brooklyn was denied first honors In
professional baseball it only added to
the ardor of some $4,000 fans. young
and old. who focked TO Ebbets Field
yesterday to see New Yorks own Blues
and Reds do battle. At least one-third
of the crowd was composed OF the 1u-
venile element, and from the time they
commenced streaming into the upper
tier of seats in the stand they let them
selves be heard on every occasion. They
swarmed everywhere and missed little
either in the preliminaries or the game
itself. Admission was free. so that may
account for the imposing number or boy
fans who turned out.
Police Commissioner Enright and Fire
Commissioner brennan occupied boxes
with a number of officials and other
guests. An hour before the game started
the early arrivals were entertained with
music by the Fire Department Band
and a band from Governors Island
which provided symphony In the police
sections. The Police Glee Club was
there to best the quartet OF firemen, II
possible, and both sides were generous
in providing numbers
The Police Department produced
fun fedged goat Just as the first fire.
man was retired at first base. Appar-
emily IL was their mascot but II may
have come from the hremen after all,
because they seemed to be losing some
thing In addition TO the game all through
the afternoon.
The firemen started the scoring In the
second inning. Fitzpatrick reaching home
after Gailigan poled timely single to
right. MoAvoy was on third base when
Dempsey hit to deep centre for home