The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-04-16
FIRST BLOOD FOR ROANOKE
The Hard Hitting Magicians Bat
Out Victory.
orth Was Pounded vIoiousIy Throughout
tile Game, While stshl Was Untouched
Save In three Inniugs-The Maaioians
Played Great Ball and Deserved to
Win-Results OF Games In Other yir.
Rinia Cities.

Ahe championship season WAS sus
spaciously opened yesterday at Athletic
Park. About ak hundred OF the faithful
were on hand to see the Msgicians worst
the Hill Climbers In a pretty battle.
The roofing" element was we'll repre-
sented' alternately cheering the players,
coaching the runners AMI guying the
umpire. An occasional yell for Lynch
burg varied the monotony. but the only
time the Hill City sympathizers saw a
chance to shout was In the seventh and
then the enthusiasm was shortlived.
The locals did the business with
their little bats. Orth has the reputa.
ton OF being good pitcher, but his
curves had nothing deceptive about
them yesterday. The home batters
COIN menced to pound him in the first,
and in only two innings thereatte. did
they fail to hit safely. \
rhe visitors failed t., get their hits
near enough together to make them
count until the seventh, when five men
in succession hit safely, and three OF
tho Two runs Tailed In ,hatinning were
cleanly earned
Roanoke started the scoring in the
first inning, two runs counting on hits
by Farrell and Crockets and McIntyre's
mutt Of Orth's throw to force Farrell at
second. In the fourth Cavanaugh hit
safely and was forced at second by
Clark. Stahl followed by dropping a
fly over left field fence, scoring Clark
ahead OF him. Three earned runs were
added In the seventh on singles by Pad.
den and Bradley, o rafting three-bsg-
ger into right held by Crockett and
Oayanaugh's long hit over left field
renee. The last two runs crossed the
rubber In the eighth on Reeds single.
Farrell's scratch three. Dagger to left and
Orth's bad throw to the plate.
The Hill City boys did all their soor-
Ing In two innings. Schabel, in the
third inning, made the circuit in long
drive over left fence. Sharp fielding
Kept them from scoring until the
seventh, when they gave the rootors q
chill by coming within one of tying the
score. Smith, the first man up, was
hit by pitched ball, stole second and
went to third on a wild pitch. Clnrk
missed Orth's third strike and the
passed ball allowed Smith to tally
Plock struck out and then the fusilade
began. Schabel. MoIntyre, Leahy,
Thompson and Ferguson smashed on
SAFE hits In succession, and before Ber-
j 1850 ~ o0o WIG Aoob Oub ny o6uQlnR u
fly to Farrell, FIVE runs had counted i.
Mixed up with the safe hitting were
three errors in Rosnoke's outneld, q
high throw over the catcher by Farrell
and two passed grounders by Sherer
Stahl settled down in the eighth and
ninth and not man reached first base.
Aside from the errors made in the
seventh Inning. the locals played per-
feet game. A rushing catch by Padden
in short center and fly plucked off the
left fence by Sherer were the finest in
dividual plays, but the entire team was
on edge and put up a game over which
the rooters went wild. The distinguish
Ing feature was the tremendous hitting
of Padden, Crockett, Cavanaugh and
Stahl.
The umpiring OF Mr.. Gauding WAS
impartially bad. His Judgment of balls
and strikes was extremely poor. and
his s'owness in declaring his decisions
made matters much worse. The de-
tailed score follows: