The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-09-21
TWO GAMES YESTERDAY
THE sTIUNTOy TEAM DEFEITED
AND THE cHfRPY CHEkUBs WON.
Care.sssness shown, and the Spectators Nc
came Dissatisfied With the Poor ssm-
pie OF the National Game.

II is quite evident that the puolics ap-
netite for base ball has been satisfied Tor
this summer, for at the championship
game yesterday afternoon at the CHESTER
field diamond, there were scarcely nun
dred people present. The Forest Hin and
| College teams occupied the field, and gave
a splendid exhibition Of how a game can
be carelessly played. Before the first
| inning ended the score stood four to one
in favor OF the Cherubs, and with such a
start neither team had much Of an incen-
| tive to play good ball. Not only this, but
| there was not a sufficient crowd present
to cheer either team to anything like hopes
Of victory. and If a game ever dragged
its weary length along, that game did SO
yesterday.
| Three base hits and several wild throws
| sent the first four men across the plate
| for the Hilites, and In the same inning
| Phillips went home on a hit, stolen
\ base, a sacrifice hit and long fly to
left field.
In the second both teams went out In
| the one, two, three order, but In the third
the Hillites received another run, Foster
reaching first on a hit, going 10 second
on wild pitch, to third on ball, and
across the plate on Napier's sacrifice.
After this inning to the most casual OBJ
server II appeared that the two teams
were not concerned a particle as to the
result Of the game. Both clubs played
with utter indifference, and the careless
ness shown on some occasions would have
fretted any we'll regulated ball crank that
had on the evening before refused to be-
come dissatisfied when the game was
given to the Virginias.
Rather than play this way and give
baseball bad name, it is far better for
the clubs in the Tri-City League to now
resolve that they will not play any more
this season. Far better would IL be
for them to take such action than TO
have a Cuba member OF their own
organizaion-compet with a cham
pionship game for public patronage as
was done at Island Park yesterday. Far
better disband the clubs than to put in
the field such poor ball players as were
upon the Chesterfield diamond yesterday.
Far better do this than play TO handful
of spectators, when several hundred
should be present and IL now becomes
necessity TO do this when II is learned
that the best players of the three teams
Of this city and Manchester have left
the organization and gone to their re-
spective homes.
O'Hagen and Calli6ower, who did such
good work for the Hiiiites, have gone back
TO Roanoke. Honeycutt has returned TO
his home in North Carolina. Anthony
has left the College team. Bahen and
O'Hara have gone to college. Hodges
and Johnson have gone to their homes,
Enright is just recovering from a severe
Illness, and Leftwich has left the Vir-
ginias. Upper will not play again this
season. What are left OF those who
have given us so much entertainment
are valiantly struggling to crowd into
the remainder Of the season as many
games as can be put upon a diamond.
but with old favorites gone, and with
eternal quibbing and quarreling and dis
putes, the public do not cry for base
ball, but rather say, rest ye upon your
oars for this season, and next spring,
when the crocus appear and the balmy
breath of spring comes, then We VIII
again take an interest in what you do,
and will go down in our pockets TO help
you have a park nearer Richmond, and
have an organization that will reflect
credit on yourselves and the people who
patronize 1t.