Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-07-12

Old Jupiter Pluvius is a baseball crank.
He. as well as many others Of the same
tyne dislikes to see the national game
played on the Chinese order; but the diff
ference between Jupiter and the other
cranks Is that when he gets tired he can
stop a game. and the other cranks have
no other course than to sit through 1t,
or quit.
Jupiter came 10 the rescue OF the cranks
yesterday and relieved them of the ne
cesslty OF sitting through two Chinese
exhibitions. The old man sat on the
edge OF Chicago-lined cloud yesterday
afternoon. and through a clear sky looked
down upon Richmond and Petersburg.
and for nine innings saw the Blueblrds
play the worst game OF ball ever put
up on a Richmond diamond. He had
not read the Dispatch and, consequent
ly, did not know that two games were
to be played; but he had no idea of sitting
through another such exhibition, so when
he saw the two teams go back on the dia-
mond 20 play game No. he swore
Il great big oath. and calling hts little
gods around him bade them open their
sluice- gates ard drive the clubs 10 cover.
The little fellows obeyed instanter.
and ere two innings had been completed
the diamond was filed with water, and
more closely resemDied a duck-pond than
anything else The game had TO be called,
but It was some time before the spec
tators could get away from the park;
and OF the $500 or more present il is safe
10 say that not one escaped without a
drenching
Nu-TTApryUV No1, cr-ppOpTrD
Mullarkey pitched for Richmond. and
did reasonably well, but he was given
miserable support, ami what ordinarily
would have been put-outs were allowed
20 become hits The Richmond boys
seemed 10 go all 10 pieces. and paid alb
solutely no attention TO the game. They
let hy-balls escape them I'm rapid sue
cession, and unless a grounder came di-
rectly towards them made no effort 70
get II.
Then. again. they did absolutely no.
thing al the bat until II was too late 10
recover the game, which they had de-
liberately thrown away. They were up
against Norcom an amateur pitcher. who
has just entered the league. but they
might just as well have tackled Rusle
for all they did to him.
The Petersburg players made up in bril-
liant plays what the Bluebirds lacked.
They hit Mullarkey lberally. ran the
bases like deer. and felled the game in
a manner which would have reflected
credit on any National League team.
CAPTURED EVERYTHING
Hitherto the Farmers have been ac-
cumulating more errors than anything
else in their games, bur yesterday they
pounded the ball all over the lot and
captured anything in a spherical shape
which came near them.
They played wonderful ball, and espe-
cially IS this applicable to Dundon, their
shortstop, but the Richmond boys suf-
fered In comparison with them.
If baseball is TO live in this State some
thing has got 10 be done with the Rich
mond team. Twice has IL been demon
tratcd that they cannot hit an old field
pitcher. and the patrons of the game were
made very tired yesterday.
In the second game Richmond was
10 Petersburg's 2, but the Farmers were
outplaying us. and II was with feeling
of relief that the spectators saw the rain
descend and end the agony.
Here Is the score OF the game that was
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