Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-10
BLUEBIR,DS BEATEN.
Went Down Easily Before The Great
Bean-EaterS.
RAIN FINALLY ENDED THE BALL.
Only Two Plays Worthy of Note
Were Nade--knin Was the Hero of
One and Lowe, of the Bean-Eaters,
Made the Other.

The Boston team minus Billy Nash
seems odd. but still the aggregation of
ball-players' put up an article of ball
playing at West-End Park yesterday az
ternoon the like Of which has not been
seen around here in many years. Every
man on the nine plays as though the
whole game depended upon him, and the
teamwork Is absolutely superb.
Jake Wells's boys were clearly not in
the game. 1t was not to be expected
that they would beat the Bostons, but,
certainly there was no reason to believe
that they would so to pieces and play u
Chinese game, such as they did put up.
They hadn't that ginger in their move
ments which usually characterizes their
playing, and there was an absolute
dearth of teamwork shown by them.
They were more lethargic in their actions
than they have been this year, and the
game was therefore devoid Of excitement,
and the only interest which attached TO
1t was created by the presence Of the
Bostons on the field.
Dillon was in the box for Richmond
and from the very first he was vciously
pounded by the Bean-Eaters, though not
n great many hits were made by them.
He was poorly supported, and old Dad
Pender even lost his head, and let n man
walk into third bag, when, by raising
his hand, he might have retired him.
TANNEHILL SUBSTITUTED.
Tannehnl was substituted for Dillon in
the fifth inning and struck out the first
batsman who confronted him. "Tanne's"
appearance In the box appeared to stimu-
late the Bluebirds. and for a time a new
impetus was given the game, but the
Bostonians had made five runs ere this
change took place, and IT was beyond
the ability Of the Richmond team to take
the lead from them.
The first five innings OF the game were
pitched by Maynes for Boston. He is a
great. tall gawky-looking twirler. but
has terrific speed, and great control Of the
sphere. and held the erstwhile sluggors
of the Bluebird team down 10 two lonely
scattered hits in his quintette of innings.
He was succeeded by Yerrick, another
of the bean-eating twirlers, and his very
first official act was 10 present the initial
bag TO Tannehill and send him TO second
by "A similar presentation TO Wood. Then
1t was that Pender found him for a
single and Richmond's first and only
run was scored by Tannehll.
Yertick was taken out of the box after
this, and Oldham Stivetts, the hero of
many hard-fought battles, went in. He
kept the Bluebirds well i'm hand. and
precluded the possibility of Their making
any more runs.
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rain began to fail, and such a chilling
effect did this have upon the players and
spectators that Umpire Wood took com
passion on the frozen players, and called
the game.
TWO CLEVER CATCHERS.
The game was not characterized by
many very brilliant plays, though there
were two very clever catches made-one
by Barley Kain and the other 10y Lowe
Boston's second baseman. 1t was in the
fourth inning that Camel batted Il bail
into right-feld, which bade fair to bring
Collins, who was then on first. into home
No one dreamed that Barley would cap
ture II. but he did after an almost super
human effort, and tossed il to Wells who
assisted in making a double play. as Col
Inns had gone some distance around the
diamond ana was unable to return 10
first.
loves brilliant catch was made in the
fifth inning, when hot line ball from
Wells's bat passed over his head. He
might well have let it gone by but he
was after IL like cat, and up from
the earth he went like a shot from
cannon and pulled the sphere down. This
was a great surprise to the spectators,
as well as a great disappointment TO the
81 T.Ur III
amount 90 something, but, nevertheless,
all joined in applauding what was recog-
nized as a most wonderful play.
The score, which tells accurately the
rest Of the story. is here appended:
RICHMOND.
ABB 4. II. O. A. T.