The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-07
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
AS Ball Ohasers, the brownies" Had
Plenty OF Work.

AS Bail-Ohasers, the brownies" Had
Plenty OF Work.
The Mountsineers had mascot yes.
terday in the personagsof Black Rufus,
an attache OF the Ponce de Leon hotel.
Rufus is firm believer In spirits, ghosts
and hoodooism, and said he would put Q
spell" on the "Grangers' and make
them lose. and lose they did, and In
great shape.
Boyer's segregation, dubbed by the
Eastern clubs the "GoAts," had on the
batting apparel yesterday and hit every
ball hard that was put over the plate.
The ball WAS knocked up and down,
crossways and sideways, and every time
1t struck the ground it was in some
place where 1t was impossible for the
feeders to getit.
G. Reiman started in to pitch for the
visitors, and the locals started the rum
getting In the hrst inning. Wbitehill
Was presented with four balls and
crossed the rubber on Wrigley's single.
In the second inning the hitting me-
lee started with single by Harry Tate.
Grove went out on long fly to right
field. Then every man st the bat either
cs:cked out a Ringle, trapped out double
or smashed out triple until eight men
had chased over the rubber with total
VI uluS ultb. mCGthm6th WINS eQDHhtuk cu
in the latter psrt OF the second inning
in Reimsn's stead and he did not fare
much better than his predecessor.
In the third Whitehill led of with
nice little single to center field, Cock.
man went to first on ball hit to the in
field, which WAS thrown to second, but
little too late to catch Whitehill. Pop
Tate, with o confident air, walked up to
the plate and smashed the sphere over
the left field fence for home run.
Wrigley knocked out two-bagger.
Williams went to first on four balls, and
both scored on safe hit by Harry Tate
and error OF Hall. and McNsmara's
wildness in forcing the latter in by Civ
ing Gochnaur his base on balls when
the bases were full.
In the fourth Manager Mari, OF the
Portsmouths, who is playing right
field, took McNsmara out of the box
and pitched the remainder Of the game
himself. In this inning the Mountain
GERS added two more runs to the score,
hide to the right field fence and made
tour of the bases before IL could be
thrown In.
In the sixth. Pop" led off with q
single, but was cAught mapping and
called out. Wrigley, who had already
a single. @ double and two triples to his
credit. lifted the sphere over the left
field fence for "homer." Groves and
Gochnsur followed with q double and
triple. and both scored. thus adding
four more runs to the already long list.
which ended the run getting of the
locals.
Lipp went in to pitch for the home
team and the Changers went to bat
first. Mari was presented with four
balls; McGhee, Rollins and Burke all
hit safely in succession, and Hargrove
trotted to first on four bad balls. Willis
WAS substituted in Lipp's place at this
stage Of the game, and the fans looked
gloomy, for before the inning wss over
sig men had chased over the rubber.
BY opportune hitting the "Grangers"
scored sheir last two runs in the second.
after which Willis, the little South
paw, had them completely a. his
mercy, and during the remainder OF the
game only allowed them to get three
scattering hits. The score: