The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-06-17
ROANOKE WINS THE THIRD.
Excitement Ran High at Athletic
Park Yesterday Afternoon.
The Game Was Not Won Until the Eighth
Inning-Both Sides Batted Hard, But
Petersburg Made tho Mot Errors.
MoHoovcter's Batting One OF the
Features of she Game.

The fans and rooters who attended the
game yesterday afternoon between Roa-
noke and Petersburg certainly got their
moneys worth. Every kind OF baseball
was presented, good, bad and indifferent
There was hitting enough to satisfy the
most exacting and some brilliant plays
were also made in tho field. Nevins
and Forman were the opposing twirlers
and they were both hit hard although
fully one half OF the visitors hits were
on the scratch order. After the fifth
Tim pulled himself together and during
the remainder OF the game not hit was
made off of him, although In the ninth
hit would have tied the score but he
retired the side by striking out Brodie.
The team Roanoke presented was
considerably changed from the regular
order. O'Hagan covered first, as
Crockett was indisposed. Mccoy was
in center and Boyd in right, while
Daniel offlciated behind the bat. The
latter caught an excellent game, and
his batting contributed toward the vic
tory.
Demoss carried off tho fielding honors
for Roanoke He had seven chances
and accepted them all. His catch of
Kiefer's line hit back OF first base was
the feature Of the game. McHooveter
had his batting clothes on, and out OF
Ave times at the bat made four safe
hits, including a double and q triple.
For the visitors Stafford's batting was
the feature.
Petersburg went first to the bat and
made three runs. After Sanford had
h..n
single and scored when Farrell put the
ball over the loft field fence Stafford
followed with hit, stole second, went
to third when Boyd dropped Myers fy
and scored on Honeycutt's long fy to
center.
The Farm ers added three moro tailies
to their total in the third on HIS by
Rrodie, Stafford and Kelly and Frech's
error. Four hits wore made off OF Nevins
in the fourth and two more men crossed
the plato. The visitors got their last
three runs in the fth Sanford, Far
reli, Stafford, Kelly and Foreman hit
safely and Boyd got in another error.
After that not nit was made by the
visitors,
Roanoke started their scoring in the
first Frech was given a base on balls
and went to third on McHoovete.s
throw In the sec ond the local team
sent six men across the plate while
their opponents wore suffering from a
bad case Of retues. Demoss reached
first on four bad balls and went to sec
ond on wild pitch. Nevins struck out
but Mccoy Was given life Of arst by
Brodie, Demoss scoring on the misplay.
Daniel hit safei y and sole second BOYD
sent grounder to Brodie, which he
fumbled, and the runner was safe Nc
Hooceter then lined out 70 three Dagger,
clearing the bases. He scored on
O'Hagan's fly TO Bonoycutt.
In the sixth Roanoke secured two
more runs on hits by Boyd. Mccoy and
Daniel and errors by Farrell and Kelly.
They won the game in the eighth
Mccoy fouled out to Kieffer. Daniel
GOT in his third hit of the game. Frech
followed with single to center, which
Sanford fumbled, Daniel going TO
third. Brodie could not handle Boyd's
grounder and McHooveter cracked out
sinG lie. O'Hagan and Cavanaugh were
easily retired, leaving McHooveter on
third.
The protest mada by the home team
against Umpire Mace had it's effect and
Ed. Welsh ofliciated in that position.
His work was satisfactory TO the bleach.
ers, but the Petersburg players made
several kicks against some OF his deci
sions Following is the score: