The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-04-24
THE SPIDERS VICTORY.
DEFEAT TIE WASHINGTON AND LEE
TEAMgYE SCORE ORIG to-.
The vss.tots Went to Pieces and flsyed
Yellow IA III sson's Crest 1hroo
razrer TO Right Field.

Tho Aggregation OF youthful. clean
shavcn bali-playors from Washington
ana Leo University. who were knocked
out Of the pleasure OF meeting the RICH
mona College Spiders Monday afternoon
remained over day. and met humil-
iating defeat at the hands Of the Spiders
yesterday afternoon at West-End PARK
Tho only consolation tho visitors got OUT
Of the result was. perhaps, the lact ina.
only a few spectators outside the uSu"i
number OF college rootcrs witnessed we
same. Less than 20 cranks. an toiu' "a"
the youngsters from the pretty "'u
village that nestles among the hlHs ol
Hoclbridge demonstrate how htue they
lnoVy Of a tdacucal game OF Dase-Dall.
They may read Terence by the page
on FIRST blush. they may dream on no
lnefss Had. PcrlClcs' Funeral Grafton
and even some OF Soph0clcs' thofal CUES
they may thrive ON kants fhiosophy,
S9inosa's Pantheism. and all that ana
flourish like green bay-tree on such
problems as 1.-THE square OF the hypot-
encuse. and similar truck. Yes they may
be - familiar with Catullus, Thucidides,
Noifairc. Hcgel, Euclid, Blackstone. and
all the rest Of them. as TO be able to
spout" them by the page. But. alas'
they can't play bali
Be A said TO their credit, however,
that they are as gcntlemaniy set OF
collogians as ever tossed the sphere
On a Richmond diamond. Each Of them
played honest, refined ball. and RETAINED
from kicking. and the Ike. But the GIT
edged article is beyond their capacity.
WANT 10 PIEcIs.
The visitors went TO pieces soon after
the game commenced. Error after err
ror was piled up, until the number reach
Cd sixteen. Myers work al third base
was ragged: Campbell played yellow ball
at short fumbiing pretty much every
thing that came his way. Faulkner, at
second. ny no means distinguished him
Belf. and Foster demonstrated beyond
a pcradventure that what he didn't know
about experimenting the lvcr-pad would
swamp any well-regulated force OF print
crs who attempted 10 set II up. lie maze
four ugly errors.
the efforts OF Miley at first were crude.
lie muned the ball twice, and aided
another error by "A bad throw. The team
work Of the visitors was ragged. and
badly-executed ia almost every respect.
There was "A certain absence of unity OF
effort. snap and general "get-up," that
was striisnely noticeable, even TO the
casual observer.
Pratts work IN the box was not as
bad as II might have been. lie held the
Spiders down to eleven hits. which would
not have resulted so disastrously for the
visitors, had their pitcher been given
even a respectable support. The LeXing-
ton twirler was not even supported be-
h.nd the bat. The base-running of the
Washington and Lee men was lacking In
judgment and spirit.
THE SPIDERS GOOD WORK.
no ST
Spiders played fairly good ball. They
soelned 10 be wanting I'm that spirited
PLAYING which usually characterizes them,
bat they soon realized that they had
matters their own way. and consequently
did not exert themselves 10 the nmlt.
They found Pratt for eleven hits, with
a total of sixteen bases. as against eight
hits with a total of nine bases for the
visitors. Their fielding was vastly SUI
perior TO that OF their opponents. Their
error column was clean, with the eXcep-
ton Of two mistakes by Mcneil, at sec
oId. and one by Edwards. at first. "Ba-
by" Phillips did clever work al 1hiid' anu
I,.ft at short, ana Llislord pehihu
"a = looked after their respective
I1tk<tt occupied the box until the
fourth inning, when "puss" Ellyson was
constituted. EllysOn's work was near
Is ND 10 his usual high standard. Dur
ing the five innings he oihciated ne hela
the visitors down TO i've singles anu
struck out four men.
I'm the sixth inning Elyson found Pratt
for a beautiful thrce-bagger I'm deep right
Hold. The ball struck the fence about
halfway up. 1t was the longest MI
made on the Richmond grounds inns
season. except the hit by Joanes. oil the
Portsmouth League team, in last Satnr-
days game.
Below viii be found niue pho,o-
,.rs,,b Of Washington and Lees defeat.
RICHMOND COLLEGE.