The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-04-06
THE HARD HEARTED CHAMPIONS
Roanoke's Pets Are Badly
Beaten BY Baltimore. 4
a Big Crowd and Inspiring Music Fail to
make the Home Team Play Bali -Ihe
Baltimoreans Win by Large SCORE,
Tho hard-Hitting 0uakerssFto PlaS
\ To-day.

The champion Orioles met this Roa-
noke boys yesterday afternoon and, in
the language of an occupant of the
right field bleachers. what they did for
them was plenty!"
The attendance was larger than on
the opening day, between six and seven
hundred people passing through the
gates. Delighted with the excellent ac-
count the locals had given OF themselves
on the previous day, and expecting to
see the visitors compelled to put up
stiff fight for victory, they waited good.
naturedly through the first three in
nipgs while young Dunn was holding
down the hitting of the big "Terrors."
But when the fireworks started in the
fourth and fifth Innings and the players
became demoralized by the failure of
the pitcher to locate the plate and the
cannonade they encountered when he
did get them over, everybody lost inter-
est and prayed for the agony to end.
In simple Justice to tho Roanoke
players 1t must be said that they wore
In poor condition to put up first.class
battle. The hard work of the preceding
day, after short week OF light prac-
tice, was enough to render them stiff
and soro, snd not man on the team
was able to throw with any force CT run
with ordinary ease. The irregularity
and iDeffectiveness of the pitchers was
another reason for Encouragement.
The hard work they are now undera
going will have she effect OF putting
them in condition to make the excellent
showing Of Thursday the rule and not
the exception.
Uunn is young Baltimorean, who
made his first appearance yesterday on
the professional field. Stacked up
against him were an assortment of the
hardest hitters in the business, but he
held them down to two hits "a single
ano "homer"o in three innings He
was little unsteady, giving three bases
on balls and hitting one man.
Reed opened up by drawing base on
balls, but was forced at second by Far
rell. The latter scored on singles by
Padden and Bradley. The champions
made three in this inning. After Nc
Graw had reached first on balls, Keeler
popped short fly to Farrell The lat
ter was too anxious to make quick
throw to Crockett for double play and
dropped the fly, McGrsw getting safely
to second when Reed muffed Fsrrell's
throw.
In the fourth inning Stshl relieved
Dunn. He had poor control, and when
he did get 1t over the big fellows killed
it." Five singles, double, q triple
and two bases on balls, supplemented
by six fielding errors. wild pitch
and passed ball, Noted the visitors
eleven runs in the two innings that
Stahl WAS in the game. The one bright
spot in his record WAS the striking out
of McGraw and Kelly in the fourth.
abilities as q pitcher, and says he will
surprise the public when he gets down
to work.
DeHartstarted in to pitch in the
sixth, but the Generalization of the
folders continued. He WAS even wilder
than Stahl, giving five bases on balls
and hitting one batter. Sandwiched in
between these gifts of the pitcher were
six singles, o triple and five fielding
errors, and nine runs were counted for
the visitors in the last three innings.
Roanoke's single tally in the first in
ming STOOD alone until the eighth, when
Farrell's pretty three-bagger to right
field and Padden's fly out to Kelly
brought in one more to keep itcompany.
The fielding honors for Roanoke wore
OaIIlSu CA ny auucu 1uu 0hHHeyt inc
latter making :wo splendid running
catches Of difficult flies. His ono mis-
play was a running muff of high foul
fly. The vieitors played quick and
snsppy game in the field Probably tho
finest single play on their side was
magnificent running catch by Brodie in
center field. He also led at the hat,
having three singles to his credit. The
detailed score follows: