The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-09
THE AUDIENCE ApplAuDED
When Padden Led the Magicians
| Off the Field.
Ono Of Horfolk's Players Was Umpir,ne
ana OF Course the Visitors Got tho
"srss OF It-Another Uphill Game
Helped Along by Norfolk's Errors.
Richmond and Lynchburg Keep on
Winning.

NORFOLK, June s.-Ospta;n Padden
l9d his players off the field in the eighth
hning OF to-dsy's game and the game
was declared forfeited to Norfolk by the
fscore OF to 0. With two men out and
the third and first bases occupied bv
CLARK and Little respectively, Weeks
made wild pitoh and Clarke trotted
home but the ball hit the grandstand
30 hard 1t bounded back to Geier and he
touched the runner, Wynne, who WAS
umpiring a. the plate, declaring him
out In 80 declaring the runner out, the
umpire was wrong, as tho grandstand is
only about sixty feet from the homo
plate and according to the rules should
be ninety.
There is also ground rule which al
lows the runner base on a passed ball
or wild pitch. The Roanokes had
been getting considerably the worst of
the umpiring all through the game, aud
a large m ajority of the audience present
applauded Captain Padden's action
when he took his men off the field. It
looked as though Roanoke was going to
WIN again, as they were just beginning
to hit Weeks
The score stood TO 6 in Norfolk's
favor when the trouble occurred. Two
bases on balls, aided by Clarks error
gave the locals two in the first. Thew
earned two more in the second on
Geier's single and doubles by Corcoran
and McGann. In the fifth they added
two on Viox's tumble of McGann's
grounder, O'Hagans out at firss, Colli-
Towers single, Kelleys double and
HEIRS slow one to Padden which Colli-
hover beat to the plate. Roanoke tai.
lied one in the first on singles by
Snerer and Little, Latimer's error and
wild pitch.
They got another on series OF err
rors in the fourth. Cavanaugh's fy
WAS muffed by Hager, O'Hagan's wild
throw TO catch Viox put him on third
and he came home when the same
FUN bled Farrell's krounder McGann
robbed them .of two runs by q phenome-
nal running catch back OF second. With
| one man out, Farrell on second and
Viox on third, Stahl sent fly over Sec
ond. No one in the grounds had any
ides the ball would be taught, but Nor
folks second baseman made great run
for it. catching the ball and throwing
Farrell out on second, thus completing
the double play.
.
Viox's base on balls. Farrell's pretty
bunt and McGann's failure to cover
second when Stahl hit TO Corcoran,
filled the bags. Sherer's double scored
Viox and Farrell. Then the locals went
to pieces completely in the field, and
out Of the wreckage Sherer and Clark
emerged with the tying runs. In the
seventh McGann's double, O'Hagan's
bunt hit, >Collihower's sacrifice and
Kelley's single put the locals two runs
to the good. No moro runs were scored
on either side, the dispute occurring the
last half OF the eighth.
MITCHELL who started to umpire. re-
tired at the end Of the fifth, and two
players. Wynne and Mccain. finished
the game.
The visitors played with spirit in the
field, but could not hit Weeks consecu-
lively, making all their runs on errors.
Stahl was hit hard at times. four of tn
eight runs being earned by Norfolk.