Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-30
SPIDERS LOSE AGAIN
THE FoREsr-Hltl cHERues PLAY A
PRETTY WINNING GAME.
rev y5iss, Fewer Errors. and riesty Of
sharp Fissding Were the Features 81
Yestsrday's Game as Fsress HtiI.

As the grave and urbane philosopher,
tho Hon. George Canning Wilde. the
Nestor of the Richmond Press Club. once
feelingiy remarked; when 2o-pfennig
piece is tipped stewards by dcxtsrons
hand, and after describing graceful para
bols falls 70 the earth. IL Is impossible to
predicate with any degree of certainty
whether the diverse with the bas-relievo
bust OF the autocratic Kaiser Wilhelm. or
the reverse with lite legend of 'lch drtnke
dgf hire Gempdheit. is uppermost."
The uncertainty that exists when coin
is thrown up as TO whether II wlll iail
"heads up or "tails up" alsois present
when eighteen young gentlemen azure
their more or less symmetrical forms IN
ill-fitting flannel and go out on the Ola
mond 60 play ball. The truth OF this re-
mark was never more conclusively proven
than on yestero zen when the cheerful
Cherubs OF Forest Hill downed Professor
luryoar's dainty darlings. during tue
frst four innings, as fast rs the Cneruhs
would cut q notch IN their stick the
Spiders would make IL a tle, and it wasn't
until the seventh inning that the college
bows saw their defeat written upon the
fence in way ward Manchesterian hand.
JOHNSON DoEs GOOD WORK.
The Forest Hill athletes had their inning
FIRST and discovered that they were con-
fronting a mighty ball-hurler in the per-
son of one Johnson. hailing from Wash
,Dgton. who plays ball in the summer and
m the winter helps Mr.. Cleveland Gt Is
said TO construct the tortuous sentences
which he throws at our representatives, IN
CONGRESS-. A pitched ball having come IN
contact with Mr. Fosters ulna (or perhaps
his radius he ambled towards first
base. ON an erratlc pitch BY Mr.. John
son he went to third, and then
scored on Morpan's drive. When the Col
lego had their inning Mr.. Burnett likewise
came IN contact with the ball and com
menced swinging around the circle.
conlne home on Bahen's hit. In the third
whirl distinct error of O'Hara's and
h,t by Lemonpunch produced another
tally for the Cherubs. and in the fourth
O'Hara got on his base by Bradley's mufF.
md Kains tumble gave him the right TO
have ms surname inscribed upon the roll
OF honor. This made things Interestingly
even, but in the fifth errors by Burnett
and Philips let Napier in. and in the
seventh KAN rushed triumphantly home.
Tho Spiders never caught the Cheruos
after that, though in the eighth inning
they had two men sitting on the dusty
bags.
THE WORK OF THE BATTERIES.
close observer could not see any flies
upon either Of the batteries. The gentle
man who Is appropriately surnamed
Iemonpunch punched out sundry Spiders
with extreme sang fro,d. and rs Mt Foster,
the gentleman from Enroughtytown with
the Tuscan. red locks. remarked " FIR lst
ausccyeicnnet." But If Lemonpunch's
curves were elusive, what must be
SAID Of the incurves and downshoots de-
livered by the man with the Apollo Belvi-
dere face and the Spartacus figure! In
that far off land of tarantulss and mesauis
bushes. Mexico, the poems Will tell you that
when an hldalgo wants TO paint the hacl-
epda he never thinks of selecting whlskey
as his tipple, but quaffs few glasses OF
that fascinating liquor. pulque-and surely
the superbly moulded man from Washing
ton must have been to Perote, for the
balls that he threw at the Cherubs seemed
TO bo on great pulque Jug. Seven OF the
great Forest Hill ba,ters bit the dust. and
OF the seven hits the Cherubs MADE four
were scratches. During the progress OF
the game both Philips and Duke we're OBJ
served TO be somewhat distracted IN their
manner, and II was afterwards discovered
that the former gentleman was com
posing sonnet in Latin he1ameters on
Mr. Johnson's pitching, and the erudlte
left-helder was evolving an epic on the
same subject IN Attic Greek.
TIE SCORE.
The points made by the players are de-
fa1led lelOW.