Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-25
THE KIDS ARE SHORN.
staunton's HDl.Clinfhg Athletes Strip
Thsm Of All slf. Glory.
BLAHKEHsHIP's POOR PITCHING.
The Mount.ipecrs Bat niin All Over the
Field snd Have Thisss Their Own
wa,-Games Hisewhere.

The second game between the Staunton
and Richmond clubs. played at West-End
parry Yesterday afternoon resulted In the
homo tean, being defeated by a score OF u
to 2.
R,ankenship caused the trouble. He
n,tched in horrible form. The "Vaiieyites'
got on to him early In the game. and oh.
how thew did whack the ball. There ap-
naared 10 be no difficulty in their placing
the sphere anywhere they saw fit. 1t was
inst as easy as eating snow.
t,verv man who clutched the ash found
h,,n ana but for the clever fielding. the
score would probably have been Il times
T.
ahopt 200 cranks and rooters went to the
game In preference TO taking In the circus,
hoping TO see repetition OF Mondays
ovo,,,,g contest but they were wofully
a,sapnointed. and many were the groans
to be heard on all sides. While Lathrop'
the mountain pitcher. only gave two men
,he,r has on balls, "our friend" Blanken-
sbin sent seven patters to hrst by WHO
n,tcb,ng. He didn't strike out many,
either. cause he couldn't
In the eighth inning the whole nome
team went to pieces, anu no mat.ei
yybers a mountaineer would hit ball
and they ALI hit them-it would be safe
for q base-bit or two-bagger. Several
times there was such mixture OF the
men as they chased after hot balls that
II was almost an impossibility to tell
whom to award the errors. Six errors
were made by the Richmond boys. while
only two were made by the visitors.
BEGUN VERY WELL.
The game started off rather smoothly.
The home club came TO the bat. and were
given a blank In the first inning. They
did likewise with their opponents in the
last half of this round. Napier. Morgan,
and Buckley went down in one. two,
three order In the second and then the
fun started. Zeigler went TO first on
four balls. and was followed by Hart
wick, who got there on an error. Fultz
batted an easy ball. and by the horrible
manipulation Of the sphere on the part
of all i'm the inield, all three OF the run
ners scored The side was then retired.
Blankenship came to the bat in the next
inning for Richmond, and was thrown out
at first. Kain flew out to Zeigler, and
little Baby" Phillips. the star OF the nine.
made a base-hit. He stole second, and
when Foster. who followed him to the
bat, knocked butte" into extreme centre
field Baby" scored. Foster went to third
on a passed ball. and scored when Tate
made safe hit. West then picked up the
ash and knocked a fly into Zeigler's
hands. which stuck. and the side was
retired with Tate on second.
ALL THEIR OWN WAY.
This virtually ended the contest so far
as the home boys were concerned. They
made no more runs. Things then pro-
gressed smoothly until the eighth inning,
when Little distinguished himself Clark.
Scherer. and Arther were on the three
bags when he came to the bat. He struck
at the first ball that came his way, and
hit 1t solidly. 1t fioated out on the am
bient air, far above the players heads,
and sailed gently over left-field fence.
All of the players came In. and Little,
amid resounding cheers, crossed the plate
behind them, scoring n home-run. Base
hits and two-baggers were the order of
the day then. and Blankehship was lIte-
rally knocked out Of the box. The
mountaineers scored seven runs in this
inning. They did not play their portion
OF the ninth inning, as they were fully
satisfied with the vengeance they had
wreaked on the Richmonders for having
shut them out In the game Monday.
The two teams play again to-day, and
tomorrow the Roanokes start a three
days engagement here. Here is yester-
days score in detail: