The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-18
A GREAT GAM g.
1T KEPT THE BOYS HUSTLlNG
YESTERDAY
The SCORE Was THREE TO one
I'm Fnvor OF Ronnokc-It was Fine
Exhibition OF Hal. pIaying-Doi:n
Makes the Longest Iuit Ever Made
on the Grounds.


Makes the Longest Iuit Ever Made
Oh, the Grounds.
Yesterday about $50 o'clock in the
the afternoon the baseball cranks
began to grumble. The cause of it
was the downpour Of rain that occur
red at that time. 1t only rained
'about Il half an hour, however, and
by ESQ the ground had dried entirely
aud was in good condition for the
game, and such a gamo it WAS. The
Roanokes were in excellent form, and
PLAYED with dash ihat made their
opponents look solemn, and the
crowd happy. The Ihmbus club also
was in much better condition than on
the day previous, ana gave the Roam
okes q severe tusSle.
When Rosenthal, If the PhWbus
club. came TO the bat he was literally
applauded on account of his tiue
stick work OF the day before, and
souie of his admirers told him to put
the little sphere over the fence, but
Quarles had something to say about
that, and proceeded with great regu-
iarity to place three good balls over
the plate, all of which the irrepressi,
bile "Rosey" failed to hit. The third
strike was Il down shoot, and drop
ped a foot in front Of the plate ana
struck Keefer OH the knee, and
bounded over behind the back-stop,
| and before lIeefer could recover it.
! the runner had scored.
In the fourth inning Rosenthal was
again struck out, but keefer let the
third strike pass him and the runner
reached first Dag. and stole second and
third and came home on Hayden's hit
10 left field. Beck had Il chance TO
put the runner out III third but made
Il at,d muif of Il clearly thrown ball
These We're the only two runs scored
by the visiting team.
The Roanvkes were first ut the bat,
and Wigmore was the first man to
face the lightning delivery of Leach.
The first ball thrown was Il good one
and Steve popped up a fly to Beech
who rot under it, and the runner
went back TO the players bench.
Beck, the next batter, had Just
bought Il new bat, but he tanned the
wind three times in q'!ick succession,
and Sproul died at first. For the
visitors Beech and Shelton struck out.
Rosenthal made II houAe run "a three
strikes, which was II Wild pitc.s. Hay
den, out at first. Roanoke, C; Phoe-
bus, /.
In the seconl-A. Brodie stood UP
at the plate like lump on IL log and
let Welsh call three strikes Oh him
without making any EFFORT to hit the
ball, Kirby knocked fly TO Clark
and |. Brodic foulcd out to Rosen-
thai. Fuller, Clark and Cotton, of
the opposing nine were struck out,
failing to solve Quarle's delivery. This
is the inning that the hleacherS failed
| to see cotton batting, a. the dry goods
man would say.
In the third-Dolin got a piece
of willow TO suit his taste and when
the ball came wliistling by he caught
it squarely on the end Of tie bat aud
| il landed Il number OF feet on the
other side Of right field fence. Al
though it went six or eight feet IN
side the foul lines whel. it went over
the fence it was outside of the flag,
and the umpire yelled, foul there
by breaking Ned's heart. This is the
longest hit that has been made on
the Roanoke diamond. The next
three balls were good and the batter
struck at them. but hit failed to
materialize. Quarels and heeter
also struck out. For the boys IN
brown, Hamper knocked a hot one to
Quarels who stopped it, but threw
the ball so easy to Kirby that that
PLAYER dropped it. Hamper tried to
steal second but keefer was too quick
for him. Leach died at first and
Beech struck out
Fourth-Wigmore out at first ana
Beck and Sproul struck out. Fol
phoebus, Shelton knocked one to
WigInore who threw HIM out at first.
Rosenthal came up to 1he plate smil-
ing and had two stri~ es called on
him. "a good eye nov said one of
the coachers. "Oh, We'll said Rosy,
"Tll get run if | strike out. The
next ball was strike, and keeter let
it pass him, and the runner got first,
stole second and third and went
home on Hayden's hit to LETT field:
HAYDEN stole second, and the crowd
said he was out and ungenerously
began to hiss. Mr. Opdyke, the UNI
pire. wouldn't change his decision
and walked off the field and Mr..
Charles Ormesby was substituted.
The next batter, Fuller, struck out,
and Clark failed to reach first. Roam
oke, 0; Phoebus, 2.
Fifth-A. Brodic hit to left, stole
second, went to third on kirby's hit,
and home on the muff of Beech.
Kirby stole second and third. but
died at home. Dolin hit to center
field, went to second on the muff OF
Quarles, fly by Beech and was thrown
out at third, retiring tbe side. Cotton,
Hamper and Leach struck out. Roa-
noke /, Phoebus 2.
Sixth-Keefer knocked out with
whiskers on it to left field fence.
Wiginore flied out to Rosenthal,
Keefer stole second, went to third
Ion Beck's hit and stole home when
Beech stole second to catch Beck.
Sproul and A. Brodie fouled out.
Beck. for the visitors, struck out, Shell
ton knocked hot one to Wigmore,
who fielded it clearly and threw the
runner out and Rosenthal struck out,
Roanoke 2, Phoebus 2.
Seventh-Kirby lined out a long
one, which was neatly captured by
Clark. /. Erodie knocked a beauty
into center out of reach, but he re
NAMED on first bag asDolin knocked
} fly almost as high as Mill mountain