The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-16
ENDED In A
FREE FIGHT.
DisgracefuI Termination of the
Game at the Park.
COLLEGE HooDLUMs, ASSISTED
BY ROANOKE CITIZENS, MAKE
THE BALL GAME RESEMBLE A
RIOT IN HoGAN'S ALLEY-THE
AUDIENCE TREATED TO A SCENE
WHICH WAS NOT ON THE BILLS
THE TROUBLE ORIGINATED BY
V. NJ. I. BOYS.

The fifteenth day of May seems to be
the day of all others when tue Virpinn
Military Institute wants to fight They
commenced it in 1864 when they gallantlv
held up The cause of the Confederacy at
New Market and concluded it to-day
when they met the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute boys on the diamond
The game was a good one, both clubs
doing excellent work and every one says
it was one Of the best games PLAYED for n
long time On the grounds here, but the
disgraceful termination of the game was
disagreeable surprise to the friends of
both institutions.
The game was progressing nicely. AL.
len for the V. NJ. I. boys was tanning
them out just about as fast as they came
to bat. but occasionally n safe hit would
he made and n run would come in Vir-
gnia Military Institute scored their ONLY
run in the first inning. Miller got his
base on balls, stole second, was advanced
to third OIL Jewels error and scored on n
wild throw
Otey came very near scoring in the fifth
Tor '. t. l., but was cleverly stopped..at
the home plate by Harrison. The game
was interesting and Blacksburg was only
far enough ahead all the time to convince
tue audience that a bunch of one or two
hits would mean " loss of the game and it
seemed to stimulate the work of the
'chappies" and they worked all the
harder.
Thus the game proceeded until The be-
ginning of the ninth inning, with ShiDp
for the Lexington boys ut theibat. Ship
struck bouncing ball TO short stop and
started on run for first base. Herbert
neatly fielded the ball and threw it to
Trendwell on first This started the fight
and from purely disinterested stand
point the cause OF the trouble appears to
have been rs follows
When Ship saw that he was surely out
on first he made jump ut Treadwell,
presumably to knock him down. Some
say he jumped ut Treadwell and Tread
well saws he struck him with his fist I'm
the breast. This incensed Treadwel so
much that he turned nHesthrew the ball
with all his might at Ship, striking him
in the body. Shipp jumped to his feet
and the two clinched. Friends of both
sides came running across the diamond,
gathering bats, sticks and anything that
was available.
such another scene, disgi aceful in the
extreme, never was seen here. The sight
OF men who are supposed to represent
two OF Nirginia's most honored and we'll
other with bats, sticks and fists cursing,
yelling more like Indians than civilized
beings.
Two policemen attempted to stop the
fight, but could do nothing against the
mon. Several citizens attem pied to inter.
fere and get the boys pacified, but this
only seemed TO ince use them all the more
and s Jnie of the citizens We're forced into
the fight.
Finally when all had qleted down,
which was i'll about twenty minutes. the
wounded were counted. Mills, of the V.
Nj. l., was the most seriously injured of
the whole humber, he having been hit on
the side of the head with base ball bat.
Martin was. the worst injured of the V.
L. l., boys he having received very Sc
we're blow on the head from n bat or stick.
Black eyes-and bruised noses were COM
mon and hardly Il man but got lick or
two. Q
several citizens were hit in their at
tempt to separate the combatants and had
to fight in seli.tlefense
FINALLY quiet was partially. restored
anu the Blacksburg boys took the field
to iinisheds the game. They stayed ont
for sometime, but it was impossible to
90 on with the game, so Trainer Lpop
broughtSlis uGn off the field and the
ssnine ended.
A good many of the boys it is under
stood, will ha, 1Adefer their visit home
until after the Waiter has been .sthor-
onghly investigated by Judge Woods in
the police court Monday morning.
The 'following-is the score of the game
as played:
V. ?, J., 6 runs, : hits, 3 errors
V. NJ. l., 1 run. hits. a errors.
SUMMARY fhree-hase hit. Jewel.
Double plays' Jewell, Whitehuryt and
wilkins. Whitehurst and Treadwell.
Bases on balls, off Allen, s; Starke, /.
Hit by pitcher by Allen, 1. Left on
bases, V. p. l., s; V. NJ. l., 6. First base
on errors, Y. p. I...3,:V. NJ l., l. Stolen
bases, Herbert, wilkins, Miller. Time
OF game, one hour and forty minutes.
EMPIRES, MP FGp.B Cooper, of Ran.
dolph Macon CosaGe, and Mr.. Faulkner,
OF Washington and Lee University
AWARDED TO V. p
The game was given the V. p. I. boys
bv the two umpircs,..th score,,being fixed,
as Is usuafin such cases, mt 8 to O.
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