The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-30
LACROSSE VICTORY
GOES TO CRESCENT
Half Moon Veterans Defeat
Oxford Cambridge Team at
Bay Ridge 6 to j.
ny KERR n. PETRIE.

While ii is true enough that youth
will be served as a general thing, one
Is bound to admit that coca sions arise
in which youth at the festive board OF
sport is served the crumbs and just
about as many of these as veteran cx-
perience cares to let it have. Such an
occasion cropped up on the sun mellowed
Club yesterday afternoon when the Half
Moon soup ladle wielders. sometimes
called the Crescent A. c. lacrosse team.
sent the oxford Cambridge lacrosse
team home with one of the sharpest de-
feats Of its tour, virtually sweeping the
Engishmen out to sea on the thin enl
Of a to / score.
Four thousand fans saw the disciples
Of freshwater training humble the man
from the land where the 'alf and alf
still flows. With the international cup
safely in its possession the combined
team from the banks of the Than Is
were figured to have the edge on the
Half Mooners. Even when the score
stood 3 to 0 for The locals at the end OF
the first half of thirty-five minutes
members OF Brooklyn's premier athletic
organization shook their heads on tho
side lines and sadly said. in the words
OF the immortal Babe Ruth, "'Tain''t
enough
The Brooklyn men were expected TO
tire and go crumbling down before the
onslaught of their younger opponents
in the second period. But instead OF tIr-
ing they used up their first wind and
their second as well and when the call
did finally come for reserves to be
rushed thu match was on ice. mothballs
and velvet
Substitutes Come Late.
Bill Dolby, who has been Bill Dolby
around the Crescent since the Narrows
we're often. was the first to hoist the
signal OF distress. Bill made way for
Brown, and in quick order Wall. Scott,
Hardthegan. Taylor and Kennedy made
way for newcomers These veterans had
played so long and 20 earnestly that it
looked as II they had forgotten all about
the substitutes lurking in the boathouse
waiting for the signal to bring up the
siege guns.
The game had gone thirty OF the
thirty-fivc minutes or so when the
shower bath parade commenced. and it
was while the achievements were taxi
ing over the works that the Oxford
Cambridge men. Gallop TO Nee, penc-
trated the American defense for the first
and only time throughout the match
Two minutes later the whistle blew, an
nouncing the end OF the battle.
Yesterdays game had no bearing
whatever on the result of the champion
ship series which the English collegians
have been battling through since their
arrival on these shores several weeks
ago. They won the cup by winning
eight out oc fourteen of their matches
against American colleges and they
leave Tor Merry England on Tuesday
meanwhile playing "A match In Montreal
tomorrow. Syracuse. 1t il understood
Is going to England after that cup next
season.
What beat the EngIishmen was mex
pericncc. They are a fine side but
for that important matter experience.
said Scott few minutes before the
end OF the attack as he retired TO the
side lines after a grand display to see
how 1t looked from that angle. They
can outrun our mon easily. and they
get about 20 per cent. OF the loose balls.
which means great deal In this game.
But they bunch too much, and In that
way they throw away their opportuni-
ties. Look at that9' he exclaimed. ~
ono OF the English players cut right
across the Crescent goal with the ball m
his crosse and kept on running instead
of trying a shot at the net.
Veterans Play GamcIy.
Hanging out across the field. the
Crescent veterans did save themselves
a lot of running. Also they had the
spirit or battle right within them every
minute OF the time. For week they
had been schooling themselves for this
match. regarded as ono OF the most i'm
portant Of their seasons schedule. but
office men for the most part they had
TO carry their paunches wherever such
had accrued right into the thick OF the