The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-08
ROANOKE PLAYS BETTER BALL
And Wins An Easy Victory From
Portsmouth.
The Magicians Batted FierceIy and Played
An Errorless Game In the Field-"Pop"
Tate Was tho Only Visitor to Solve
stahrs Delivery, While Brandt Was
Hit Hard-Norfolk and Lynohburg Tie
in Ten Innings

hoanoReS aggregation of ball PLAYERS
went out to Athletic Park Yesterday
afternoon determined to atone for the
indifferent work Of the day before, and
right royalty did they live up to their
resolve. They sailed in with the stick
In the opening inning and kept the
helders chasing the ball throughout the
game. Then their work in the fold was
such as has rarely been seen on the
local diamond. Breen and Cavansuph
changed places in the inf cid and the
new arrangement worked like a charm.
both men fielding brilliantly.
Stshl and CAMEL were Rcanoke's bat
terry and their performances WAS a
feature of tho game. Tate was tho
only green.legged batsmen to find Stshl
with any success and his record with
tne SUCK was q remarkable one, being
t"o clean singles,a homo run and q
double that Farrell just managed to
knock down but could not capture. The
remaining visitors could do little with
Stahl. CAMEL proved himself to be o
valuable acquisition to the local team.
He caught perfect game and duplicated
his sic6work Of the preceding day with
q clean double and brace of singles
With two men out on flies In the first
inning, Padden started the pyrotechnics
with line drive over left field fence.
lfanzel followed with two Dagger to
center and scored on Bradley's single.
The visitors filled the Eases with no.
body out In their half on hits by Thurs
toh and Reed and soaker in the short
ribs for Kuox. Then Tate sent in two
runs with clean single to right hsld.
Sharp fielding prevented further scor-
ing.
In the second, with two men out,
Stahl reached lrston Tate's error, went
TO third on Sherer's single, and both
men tailed when Hargrove iuggled
Breen's slow grounder to center. The
visitors got their last run In the third
on Tate's pretty hit over left fence.
One run was added to Rosnoke's string
In the fourth by Stahl's double, wild
pitch and Sherers single.
In the first half of the fifth inning,
with the score to in favor OF the Ma.
gicians, heavy rainstorm came up and
threatened to serve up another mess of
hard luck, delicacy to which they
have become accustomed while On their
recens travels. After o few minutes
suspension the game proceeded until
the fifth inning was ended, when the
rain fell more violently than before and
caused a delay Of fifteen minutes. On
resuming play, the two teams started in
and played the prettiess sort OF ball.
The only runs Tailed thereafter were
two by Roanoke, one in the seventh and
one In the eighth, the visitors being de-
barred from further run-getting by
helding that was on the gilt edge order.
In the sixth, with Tate on second,
Quinn cent fly to deep center which
Farrell captured in fine style. Tate
attem pied TO reach third on the out,
but Farrell cut him of by a magnificent
line throw to third peculiar feature
was that both teams closed tho ninth
with double plays.
In the field Farrell carried off the
honors. accepting his six chances in
splendid fashion. Hargrove, in cen tor
field for Portsmouth. despite his brace
of errors, covered great deal of ground
and cut off several long hits for the
Megicisns by his speedy fielding. The
detailed score follows: