The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-09
WELL ME DON'T KNOW
t Looks Like Smiths Aggregates Can
Play a Little Ball Themselves.
THEY BEAT THE PRlLlIES YESTERDAY
.And Demonstrated The FncL thnt
they Are GOiiI;s After. the r,cu,,n,,t
ihc f.Ocnis Dtd Great WOrk-Ncw-
toms Splendid Showing: Ostorr
VIII se Here To-day.

Inc NorfoliI roo.Cr has u crow COM
ing.
The way Smiths aggregation went az
Yer the Quake"s yesterday made MIR
SiaslinE's head swim. ana gave johnson
heart disease. That phenomenal coilrr-
ton Of sluggers, Dcirhanty. I.aIoie.
Gcicr. Cooley, Nash. Clements ct ais.
We're poWerless to .stavr D!C defeat. their
colossal reputations fer hard hitting 10
the contrary Notwithstanding The sim
pie truth Of tho MATES, IS that Newton
was puzzle to them. and except in Two
instances. they could not lind him to
save their lives when they wanted TO.
Inc final score WAS four to three and
came about thus:
III the first fCur innings, The locals
never got Il man to first and Johnson
had not been touched for even a scra tch
rue thillies had not been able to score
though they Jared Il little hcttor at the
hand Of Newton. Gcier. in the nltst
walked. and was advanced 10 second on
| cooley'S hit. Llioic sent the ball to
Wentz. who touched Cooley. aud threw
the batter out at first Making a quick
double. while Geier went 10 third. Del
rhanty was hit by Il pitched ball, stole
second. and died there OIL 'rhompson'
| out 10 Shlffer.
! In the next inning Clements lined out
30 ShaIfer; lIalman famed: Nash hii
ana 50 did Johnson. and Wcntz cangh,
nm while he was trying 10 70 to sec
onh on Eeicr's first on choice In tho
third. with two men out, Dclchan,y
hit ami stole third. hut died there
thompson going out to Wcihl, who made
| n pretty running catch of his high IN
TIE FIREWORKS.
In The fifth inning the fireworks were
touched of. WeddiEc flew on, to cen
ire. Wcihl hit safely, Wcntz few out 10
Cooley. Then Me, who ha, hccn catch
l1.a. -1.,g
on a corking TWO bagger and crossed
the rubber himself. While Iajo!e was
| falling 10 get .Gilroy's g,cunde, low
| thrown TO him by Hnlman Newton
ended the inning by flying on, to
GticE The most the visitors could do
was TO scratch out one hit;
In the next inning Shamer ana Lcahy
Wen, out in success sion ana Claude Me
FariAn came To she bat. johnson tossed
4 slow one over and Claude famed the
air. whcreuPon Mr.. johnson grew HORT
bly, pleased with himself ana laughed
long ana loudly. j. MAS even as the
cong Of the dying swan for erc The echo
q his undue hi!ari;y had died alon!
the pulinEs. Mae had Nnnl one out fnr
first Wc!hl and WoddlSe each fol
lowed with Z similar trick Claude COM
ing in on COoleS'S bad throw Nh
Iohnson's face lost its pleasing smile ana
became Il picture Of sadness. The rootcrs
son was ratified aud kindly presented
WCN;H with a bag. The three base
We're fun, bur Johnson wcpt bpcau..5
there Wee no more bases to iii ana p.u-
cecded 70 force Wcddgc IN by allowing
Me 70 walk. HAPPY Jack Gilroy. who
had been distinguishing himself IN
right field would have enjoyed cca
ing the bases. bu, concluded OUT Oi
sympathy 10. Mir. Johnson, not 10 pro-
long the latte"'s evident agony any fur
Their. and considerably went out
Rome howled and the Phllics Went in.
Wcihl made n great catch Of Delchan-
tvs fly Dan Lcahy did a similar favor
Tor Thompson; Clements hit and Hal
man walked. but Nash sent foul to-
ward the right hand beachers. which
Shaffer, by exceedingly clever funtwOrk
secured and ended the inning
Then came trouble. with two men
out Leahy swincd n two blggcr. but
could not &c. further than second. Nc
Farlan following him with IN out. IN
the eighth and ninth the locals went
out In one, two. three style. The
Quallers took brace. In the seventh
ShaffeH made another great catch Of
lohnsOn's foul Gccr wen, out from
Wentz to Sharcr, Cooley battcd a high
foul, which Shaifcr ana Mic both tiled
to get and failed. \ moment later
Cooley sWiped u single and reached sec
ond on Lelhy's bad throw Lejoin
brought him home OF two baggcr and
stole third. Driihanty walked ana stole
and thompson went out and concluded
the inning.
In the eighth the visitors landed two
men more on three singles and 4 double
Newton struck out Dcchanty and Hal
man III the ninth. and Me threw Tay-
Tor, who had singled, out 20 Leahy a
second. ending the game. I. was an
inning for the battery
After SHitilLr twu man ~.
ninth Johnson was hi; upon the arm hy
hatted ball and forced % retire. Tay-
Tor replaced him ana ended the inning