The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-04-14
THE HOME TEAM LOST
Ragged Fielding on the Part of the
Changers Gives the Game TO Brooklyn.
UPHILL FlGHTINGA ReDEEMIHG FEATURE
Mailman Pitched Good Rail- nnd Hit
After Hit WINS Made After Chances
Had Been Given to Retire the visi.
ftors AN OF Day Which VIII Prob.
ably Not Occur Again Soon.

The eight or nine hundred people who
assembled at League Park yesterday
afternoon to see the Bridegrooms and
the Changers meet I'm friendly battle
were sorely disappointed at the wretch
ed fielding displayed, not only by the
nome team. but the visitors also tried
TO see how ragged they could play. The
BrooklynS and the home team appar-
emily We'd with each other in seeing
VINO could foot up the greatest aggre-
gate in the error, column, but after
strenuous efforts on the part OF each
cup to excel in this particular, and find
ing that 1t was rather a hard fight to
win. each team then drew the line, and
settled the comedy of errors by de-
claring 1t draw. the misplay column
at that time standing a tie - But
what is the use of crying over split
milk. Such is the uncertainty of base
ball. although yesterdays game was a
hard one on Mailman. for the little fell
low pitched great ball. and the heart
breaking part of 1t is that out of seven
teen runs made by Foutz's men only
one of them was earned. and in nearly
every instance two men were out I'm
each inning before the Brooklyns would
score. and then 1t would be done
through the poor work of some
member of the infeld If these
unfortunate affairs had not happened
just when they did this story would
have been different. and to some every
error made by the home team cost, OH
lots of runs. and 1t seemed that the
boys would wait to get the bases full
and then make a misplay, sending the
men who hoped to represent portion
of the Greater New York around the
bases one after another In two innings
until in one and In another had been
piled up But that word "if"-what y
Inquire II cuts i'll game of ball, for if
these errors had not been made. the hits
charged UP to a little Willie would only
have been to the limit of eleven, just
one more than made by our lads
But there are redeeminE features to
the whole thing, and they are the way
the team fought and hit. They stood up
like men, and never faltered. They
went at the visitors as If they could
win out even after they had been left
behind SO far in the race. That was en-
couraging to a great degree. and augurs
we'll for future success. 1t is Il positive
fact that the Portmouth team can never
be truthfully called "quitters" If they
always take their medicine as they did
yesterday. The next and prOba bly, the
best feature is the way they find the
leather. Ten hits is not bad for a minor
league team TO get off of two such clever
twirlers as Payne and Abbey, and the
Brooklyns realized the fact of having
to play ball when they saw what team
they were playing with. and what Il
clever little twirler they had to face.
The boy didn't sulk bit, but stuck
close to his knitting. and if the iniield.
tnotice the word IF" AGAIN.. had given
him the support they should and are
competent of giving him, the little fell
low would have felt a great deal better
after the game. No one blanes him; he
is all right. In fact all OF the boys are
all right. II was just one of those
off days which visits the best of play
ers and clubs and on those days it is
G hard matter to make clean plays, and
still harder to make II run unless you
knock the ball over the fence, and then
the chances are ten to one that it will
land foul.