The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-15

+. Speaking about hard luck. just cast
your eye down the HE and error col.
umns in the appended score. Note
carefully the players who made Roam
oke's errors. There are no safer field.
ers in the league than they.
There is Jake Sherer, who wss never
known to drop afy ball. A prominent
baseball crank gave THE TIMES reporter
his solemn assurance yesterday morn
ing that Jake couldn't do such thing
II he :ried. Jake muffed two of them
yesterday.
} Next comes Jimmie Little. He Is
the best in the business. 1t Is his
daily practice to scoop low thrown balls
out OF the dirt, 60 up yard. or two and
OF the bag and pull them down with
one hand, or to reach out on either
side couple of rods with equal facility.
But he was never known to drop bail
delivered squarely in his hands. He
dropped one yesterday.
! Cap'n Dick Padden has no equal on
second bag. He Ia accustomed to
playing seven or eight positions all at
the same time. When a ball Ia batted
In the air, Dick is just as likely as not
to be under 1t when 1t drops. A grouuder
between first and second is certain
death to the batter, because these are
the balls the Cap'n never fails to han
die. He fell down on one Of them yes
terdAy.
Then there is "Cavvie." There is no
surer fielder or speedier thrower filing
the space between the second or third
bsgs-but, never mind, that tumble Of
Alloway's grounder did not affect the
score, anyway.
Look at the excellent batting record
OF the Msgicians. Alloway was the
easiest they have struck for long time,
with the notable exception OF Mr.
Knorr, Of Richmond. They would pump
out singles until the bases were com.
fortably filled. and then the succeeding
batsmen would prove easy outs Atany
one of FIVE or ak critical junctures, a
safe hit would have preclu1ed the pos i.
sibility OF an extra inning.
Do not fall to observe the circum-
stances surrounding that home run hit
OF SAnford's. This usually safe hitter
WAS four times at bat. Twice he struck
out, once he rolled little grounder to
the Pitcher, but the fourth time, with
two strikes famed" q man on first
base and two runs necessary to tie,
bang; went the ball out of the enclos
ure.
Hence. the agoniElng wall OF the die
appointed last night.
The narrowing tale of the disaster is
soon told. In the eighth inning, with
the score tie, the locals knocked out
three singles which. with Alloway's
bad throw, gave them three runs. In
the proceeding eight innings Stahl had
held the visitors down to one scratch
hit, and the lead Of three runs seemed
impossible to overcome, but they went
at him savagely in their lAat half.
Lippert led of with clean three-bap
ger to left center and scored on Turner's
single. The latter Tailed ahead of
Sanford on the homer that tied the
score.
Successive singles by Sherer. WEIGH
and Little gave Roanoke one in the
tenth. Packard batted for Alloway
and struck out. Lyons sent down a
grounder that Padden fell down on and
went to third on Lippert's two-base hit
after Fender had flied to Padden. Both
men crossed the plate on Turner's long
drive to center field
Umpire Mitchell made his first ap.
pearance on the Roanoke diamond and
made a good impression. Judging from
his performance yesterday he is de =
sided Improvement over any of his pre-
decessors this season.
Captain Ponder did himself no credit
by his unsportsmanlike refusal to allow
runner for Sherer. who was ILL.,, after
Little had declined by reason OF being
the next batter. This sort of thing in
evltably reacts on the party guilty OF it.