The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-06
THE BEST GAME OF THE SEASON.
Ten Innings With the Score
Standing o to O.
The Game Was Fairly Won In tho Ninth
Inning by the Home Club, But 1t Was
Denied Them by Very Rank De-
cision of "a Very Rank Umpire-Story
of the Game In Detail.

About 600 baseball enthusiasts were
on hand at the B. A. c. grounds yester-
day afternoon to witness the greatest
game of ball that has ever been played
in this city. 1t was game that will
long be remembered by those wLo saw
it. 1t was battle royal between Boyd
and Blake, with the honors slightly in
Blake's favor. 1t was worth double the
price of admission to see these two men
twirl the ball. Blake only allowed one
hit off his delivery and struck out ten
men, while Boyd. outside of the fourth
inning when three hits were made off
him, was invincible, only giving one
base on balls and striking out nine Of
the opposing team, five of them tanning
the air in the last two innings. While
these. two young men deserve great
deal of praise there were sixteen other
athletes who played the game of their
life. Daniels, Wigmore and In fact all
the home players played great ball,
while Tenley, Fultz, Viox and Donovan,
OF the visitors, played brilliantly.
In the ninth inning there came very
near being riot, but order was finally
restored. It occurred In this manner:
Riley, the first batter, went out from
pitche to first; Meade got his base on
balls, stole second and went to third on
4 passed ball. Daniels was also pre-
sented with a base by Blake. Boyd
then stepped up to the plate with a look
OF determination on his face. He hit
slow one down toward second, which
Fultz had to jump for to catch on the
bound. Fultz threw the ball to frat,
but Boyd had apparently gotten there
before the ball and Foster, who was on
third, scored. Everybody in the
grounds thought that Boyd was safe
and that t % R. A. z. boys had won the
hardest fought game of the season, but
to the amazement of the audience
Burk, who was umpiring on the bases,
called Boyd out. TO nine. tenths of the
people on tho grounds it looked
like faced robbery. Nearly
all the players had left the
grounds, thinking the game was
over. Burk was soon surrounded by an
excited crowd and looked as though he
might be roughly handled but he stuck
to his decision and the players were
called back and played another inning
when the game was called by darkness.
The game opened up with Staunton
at the bat, Donovan, Blake and Viox
going out in order. Outside of the fourth
inning the Stanton team never had
chance to score during the entire game.
In this inning they made their three
hits, but could not score so sharp was
the fielding of the home team. They
had man on base in the fifth and one
in the eighth but could do nothing with
the stick.
In Roanoke's first inning Wigmore
flew cut to Fultz, Riley struck out,
Meade made hit, the only one of his
side during the game, and stole second,
but was left there as Beck struck out.
With the exception Of the second, fifth
and ninth, they went out in one, two,
three order.
The home team has certainly de-
monstrated its ability in the past six
games to play gilt edge ball, and no
team that they meet need expect to
have an easy thing. Richmond College
will be here this week for two games on
Wednesday and Thursday, and large
crowd should turn out, as there will, no
doubt, be some great ball playing.
Johnson and Hodge, one of the batteries
OF the Washington Y. M. C. A. team,
will be with the college boys.
Following is the tabulated score: