Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-05
KIDS WIN WITH EASE.
THEY FIND lifrLE DIFFICULTY IN
DEFEATING TREES TIGERS.
Neither the small Attendance Nor the
Drenchinx Rain Detsr the Telegraph
manipuiators-Tbe Game To-day.

The operators and the messenger
of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company
came from ForestHill Park yesterday
afternoon bringing with them whole car
load OF enthusiasm, and when the central
Office OF tho company was reached, as the
cranks IN Petersburg would say, 1.-THE big
Shanghai was turned loose and the Ban
tam pullet sang her tunefui lay"
The cause OF all this was that Katess
Kids bad downed Trees Tigers. otherwise
known as the Western Union operators.
IL had been intended TO play the game
tor the benefit OF the Ice-Mission fund,
and this would have been done had the
citizens OF the town shown a proper ap-
probation OF the movement. As 1t was.
no one was present except the players. the
umpire. and about dozen deadheads,
who occupied seats In the grand-stand.
THE WEATHER AGAINST THEN.
II the weather had been favorable there
would have been large attendance no
doubt. but few persors knew the. game
would take place in such lncIement
weather. IL appears that one club wanted
TO postpone II, but the other would not
consent. A light rain was falling during
the entire game. and those players who did
not have waterproof coats got soaking
wet.
Seldom have games been played In Rich
mond with more snap and vim than tue
one yesterday. AS an evidence or the
fact that each side was PLAYING to win but
few runners hesitated 10 dive into pono
OF mud and water at second base. lhere
was some hard kicking over some vi the
umpires decisions. but generally they APP
peared to give satisfaction.
Laughton pitched a fairly-Rood game for
hftnhQl threw
the 1estern Unions. was Just q bit wilder.
Butt and Dorset held the balls tolerably
well.
In the sixth inning Butt went into the
box for Trees Tigers and succeeding III
losing the game for them. Ot some
twenty or thirty balls that be threw two
went over the plate, and his outward
curves and hurkey-turkey" movement
gave Kates's Kids eight forced runs.
AND DARKNESS CANE on.
Tire score by innings was as follows:
10 4 5 6
Postals.. ...........0 4 8 SIC
Western Unions. .....1 0 l oil
No record was kept of errors, base-hits,
bases on balls, etc.
The game was called on account of dark
ness at the end of the sixth inning. 1t
was umplred by Mr.. L. X. Noel III the alb
SeDCe Oh MI. Juh0S L. 'OvN' ""N
pected 10 render the decisions. Another
game between these clubs will be played
shortly.
The Games To-day.
The Virginia Colts and the College SDi-
ders will play at Forest Hill this afternoon
at 8 o'clock. O'Rourke and Luck will
constitute the battery tor Lumsden's
youngsters. and Johnson and hodge Will
Gil the points for Professor Puryear's pets.
The Hull-Street Cherubs will betake
themselves over to Petersburg this after
noon and try TO wipe up the field with the
Appomattox Farmers. KAN, who left
where he PLAYED Yesterday. will JOIN the
Cherubs in tho Cockado City to-day, and
West, Ieitwlch, and Tate. who went to
Rocky Mount, n. c.. Wednesday to play
two games. will be OF their regular posts
this afternoon.