The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-07-12
MAGICIANS STILL WINNING.
Norfolk CLAIMS Compelled to
Bite the Dust Yesterday.
Roanoke Gives q Fine Exhibition of How
to Hit the BaM-Chard Receives a
sevore neutrality-suspicious. Touched
Up Lively In the First Inning, but
After That He Was Invincibie,

The Magicinns continued their wins
ming streak yesterday and defeated Nor
folk with ridiculous ease. In fact, after
the sixth inning the CLAIMS seemed to
realize that they are not In the same
class with Manager Paddens lads, and
their greatest desire seemed to be to
end the agony and get back to the hotel
where they knew good supper was
waiting for them. They considered this
better than trying to accomplish an i'm
possibility.
McCann was in the box for Roanoke
and that precluded all possibility OF
Norfolk coming out ahead. AS a
pitcher Mccain has few, II any equals
in this league. Not that he is not hit
hard at times, for he is, but he has the
courage to put the ball over the plate.
realizing that he has eight men behind
him, and az critical stages he displays
the greatest kind of head work. he
may be called lucky, but the fact re-
mains he wins his games and does It by
honest, hard work.
Norfolk started out yesterday after
noon as though they were going to
knock him out OF the box in the first
inning. McGann lined out two.
Dagger, OHsgan q triple, Corcoran
single and Kelly a home run. This
hitting Melted them four earned
runs, but after that they were
like putty in his hands. TRY as
hard as they could Tate and his
men could not solve his slow delivery
and they secured but four scattering
hits off him during the rest of the
game.
Chard essayed to do the pitching for
the CLANS and he was peaches and cream
with the other appurtenancss Of the
bakery thrown in. Pitch as fast or as
slow or as cunning as he would Ma
0ician's bat was always ready to famil-
iarize itself with the ball and bang It
would go to some safe territory. He was
hit safely fifteen times for O total of
twentY-seven bases In addition to this
Mr.. Chard WAS very wild, being credited
with three wild pitches and seven bases
on balls. Little, Cavanaugh and NC
Cam were the only Roanoke players
who did not swell their batting averages.
Sherer drew two singles and double,
Fultz single. triple and home run,
Stshl single and double, Padden a
single, . double and 8 triple, WEIGH two
singles and triple and 'Viox a single.
a pretty good record .o1 one days work.
The support Mccain received was all
that could be asked for. although Viox
had an of day. Still, the king did some
good work and 1t is very easy to excuse
his misplays. While al the men did
we'll, to Cavanaugh and Sherer must be
awarded the palm. The former accepted
ten chances without the sign of an
error, and some of them were very ditn-
cult ones too. Sherer pulled down a
number OF difficult flies in center. his
only misplay being passed ball. The
CLANS also put up fine article OF ball,
Corcoran and McGann doing especially
we'll.
AS for the game itself there is but
little to say. When hit WAS needed
on Roanoke's side it was generally
forthcoming, and as result thirteen
pair OF maroon legs crossed the rubber.
For Norfolk things were just reversed.
Outside Of the first inning they longed
and longed in vain for those delusive
aud tsntalizing things called hits but
they were as scarce as Ia money to a
printer twenty-four hours after paw
day. careful perusal OF the SUBJ
Joined will give the reader fair idea of
how the thing was accomplished: