Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-04
COLLEGE TEAM WINS.
AN UNUSUALLY PRETTY GAME PLAY
kp ON THE ISLAND YESTERDAY.
The Forest-Hn Club Makes Strong But
Futile struggie--yirginians Beaten
in Petersburg.
Well welllr wellll,


How the cranks enjoyed themselves yes
terdayi And what a rarely good game
was that which Richmond College and
Forest Hill played at Island Park 1t was
an exhibition Of ball-playing that was we'll
worth looking at.
Both teams commenced TO work in
earnest from the word go" and the con-
test was remarkable for vigorous, scientific
hitting and sharp. clever fielding.
The Forest Hills scored in the first in
ming, when Kahn took advantage OF one or
Darby's drops and sent the ball over the
left-feld fence into the river. making a
home.run. The College boys tailed TO
score in their half OF the inning. though
Belcher gave Sydnor and W. Duke bases
on balls, and Cullen made timely hit,
filling the bases.
In the second neither club scored,
though there were two clean hits made on
each pitcher. But IN the third Gibson let
h. Bradley go TO second on passed bail,
and then the Forest Blifs bunched three
hits and brought in as many runs. This
made things look little blue for the Col
iege, for. though they filed the bases again,
they only got one run il.
THEN THEY hit BELcHER.
In the fourth round, however, the stu
dents were right in It. In the first half
tbey put the Manchester boys out in one
two-three order. and when they got their
inning they commenced 10 play with Bel
cher's slow curves IN way that was heart-
rending. Sydnor led oil with clean SIN
ole and stole second. Then Gibson made
a beautiful Iriye over the lelt-held fence,
bringing in Sydnor and scoring himself.
w. Duke and Cullen, who were next at
bat. found Becner for safe hits, and these
two hits, together with an eScusable error
I of O'Hara's. resulted in two more runs.
| THIS put the Joke on Manchester, Tor the
score now stood TO with the college,
| colors up. In the middle of this inning
Kahn went into the box Tor Tue FOREST
| Hills.
la the next inning Tate made q timely
| hit and brought Kahn in, tlelng the score.
| After this both clubs did some close PLAY
| ing, and the fifth inning was finished and
the sixth and seventh played without
run on either side.
BATTING OUT THE WINNING RUNS.
| In the beginning of tho eighth inning
! O'Hara scored partly through Burnetts
| wild playing aud partly through clever
base-runnlng. In the ending OF ms inning
| the Colleglaus punched three hlts ana got
| two runs, which left the score 70 o IN
| their favor. In their halt of tho ninth 1t
| looked as though the Manchester boys
might tie the score, for Is. Bradley hut
safely and managed to get to third base by
| the time Eddie late picked up the stick.
| A hit from Tate would have brought Brad
| ley IN, but Darby was too wise to let the
| Forest Hills big frst-baseman get a
chance to hit the sphere. lie gave mm his
base on balls aud took his chances Tor MT
with Lipscomb. VINO is an uncertain bats
man. Darby's judgment was right, Tor
! Lipscomb sent an easy erounder 70 Phil-
| lips and was thrown ouJ at first. ms
ended the struggle, and Cullen's spiders
were the folks
Foster umplred the game very fairly.
| He made several very close decisions
notably two at third base, which were
much criticised. But on the whole ne
made very good umpire. and while the
college boys suffered most by his umpirlng
| they showed their confidence IN ms far
ness by refrainlng from kic ling. In fact,
| there was no kicking WORTH speaking OF,
| though Eddie Tate made one or two OF
| his playful little bluffs.
| Burnett was near losing the game Tor
| the College. Inhis anxiety TO SHOW oil y
| in making grapd-stand plays be makes
| good many costly errors.