The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-26
TwELvE-INNINa GAME.

About the Cleverest Exhibition rvar
Seen in Roanoke.
one OF the largest and most enthus-
iassic crowds of the season went to tho
association Park yesterday afternoon
ana SAW their favorites down the Olam
Gatnerers In q twelve inning contest.
The game was Of the heart disease hind
ana was the cleverest and most inter-
esslng ever seen on the Roanoke dia-
mona. After the eighth inning It was q
royal pitchers battle between Cheesbro
and Schmit, and 1t was hard to deter-
mine which would get the best OF e..
Cheesoro was given gilt-edge support.
Wrigley and Goucbenour both plaved
the game and 1t did the fans" good 40
see them 60 after and eat up what ap-
peared to be safe hits.
Coons went in to pitch the game, but
In the second inning the visitors iumned
on to his delivery and made four hits in
succession that scored two runs.
Cheesbro was substituted in his stead
ny captain Tate aud then the royal bat.
tie begon.
His royal highness, m pire Wood, WAS
particularly disgusting to the lovers of
the national game. He roasted the
home team all the way through. WIG
In the twelfth inning P. Tate hit
safely and stole second. Wrigley, the
next batter, sent the sph ere over the left
neld renee for home run, and at that
stage OF the game Mr.. Wood called It a
1oul Dali, when, as o matter of fact, IL
was fair by at least three feet.
Another exhibition of rotten umpirinq
was when he called II. Tate out At sec.
ond base.
The locals went to the bat first and
started out as II they intended to put
mr.. Schmit out OF the business. Cock
man hit safely, Groves went to first and
Cocsmsn third on an error by Wentz.
ihe la',er was caught between the
osces and In attempting to put him out
the former scored and Groves went to
second. Williams trotted to fra. on
four balls. Pop Tate raped out a
double and scored Groves. Wriglav
flew out 70 the catcher. Harry Tate
Cos In nice little single that brought
both Williams and the elder Tate home.
The run getting of the locals ceased
until the eighth, when Wrigley started
the ball rolling by smashing out q two.
base hit and scored on another two
Dagger by Tate, Jr. Cheesbro, who WAS
determined to win, after two men were
out, raped out double 10 centre field
that scored Tate. This made the score
Ole, and for the next three innings,
try as they could, the locals could not
get another man across the rubber until
the twelfth. Williams went out on a
pop fly to Ramp, Pop" Tate, (who can
always be depended upon in case of
emeraency) caught she ball souarelv
and went to first on nice little single.
he stole second, and Tate, Jr., sent him
to third on another safe hit.
0ochonour, the crack little second
bAeemen, got his eve on The hall and
sent 1t safely to centre field for another
hit that scored the elder Tate, which
was the winning run for the locals.
The CLAIMS played hard game for the
supremacy, but somehow Cheesbro's de-
livery puzzled them snd made Il impos-
sibie.
In the third inning McFarlan landed
the sphere over the head OF the centre
fielder and went to the second bag.
Armstrong caught one on the end OF his
bat and sent IL over the left field fence
for home run:
The visitors scored again in the fifth
and seventh, and things began to look
blue for the locals. The CLANS were two
runs ahead, but Cheesbro WAS deter
mined 70 win, and sent the ball over Abe
plate with such speed that the visitors
could nor get more shan one hit in An
inning, and were given goose eggs five
times consecutively. Whitehiil. ehe
second basoman. played in right field.
and she general impression is that he IL
the right man In the right place.
ROANOKE.