The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-30

Wonder what the management is saw
Ing the pitchers forr
Madison had thirteen chances and &C
ceptcd eleven Of them.
Hartford is keeping up her gait, and
will eventually get there.
Yeagcr kept up his hitting reputation
with a homer and Two singles.
Wc:hl made a sensational catch OF a
long foul fly close TO lcftileld fence.
Cy Bowen struck out eleven OF the
Newarks yesterday. He Is getting to
be a terror, surely.
Every Maroon. with the exception OF
Madison and Wente got W or more
hits off Mcfarland.
The Brooms stated like winners. but
that's all they did. Made four runs in
the first, and then fell by the waySidc,
and were cruelty m~altreated by ieaSer.
The mosquitoes are so bad on the
grounds in Hartford that SINAI boys
itre reaping a harvest by selling mos
quito netting on the grounds at III cents
Il strip.
Hook ratt!cs around in Hanes Wag-
ncr's trousers like a pea in it's pod.
They hang so low on him that he got his
base on balls yesterday wilen he was
clearly struck out.
Two games VIII be played to-day. The
first game will he played at $50 p. M.
and the second upo the completion of
he first. Newton and pfanmillcr Will
pitch for the Brooms.
Brandt has a new delivery. which may
account somewhat for his previous nom
success. 1t is Il style which conduces TO
wildncss and Brandt would do we'll TO
stick to his usual style of pitching.
Jim Corhett has been signed to play
first base in five games for the Athletics.
He will start in at Reading on Satur-
day and accompany the team to Nor
folk. Richmond, Paterson and Lancas-
ter.
Mcfarland made Il very inauspicious
beginning. The first man up he hit in
the Stats and the next ball pitched was
n wild one, which allowed Buttermorc
to go to second anI score on uannivan's
single.
Umpire Belts Is officiating in Rich
mond this week. The Hartford Globe
thinks him Il paragon Well. he may
have become so since last year, but he
wasn't many pumpkins In the old Nir-
Sinia League.
Manager Sharsig has received the
consent of the other Atlantic League
mana gers to transfer the remainder OF
the games scheduled for Philadelphia.
The club has rot drawn well at nome
and this has caused Manager Sharsig
to take the above step.
Snyder was hit in the face by n pitch
ed ball in the second inning by a foul
tip. The ball struck one of the wires I'm
his mask and drove it into his cheek
bone. drawing the blood, but he pluckily
continued behind the bat after the
hruise had been plaStcred.
Setley has been charged with buncoing
n team in New York State. lie said this
was not true. He tried to collect $500
10 get the team in n minor league. lie
worked four days and pitched two cx-
hibition games. He collected $500. gave
Sla0 back and gave himself $50 for his
services for the four days. And then
they said l was a robber," he said
Hartford Courant.
"Old King" Kel. keeps on hitting the
ball down In Norfolk. On, for others!-
Richmond State. Right you are, Broth
- 'St N!IS NcltS has taken 4
new lease Of life and is playing a game
with golden fringes on it n yard wide
and 4 mile long. Ec1.'s ambition has
a,waNS been to cover the Earnestly
Sought Cushion and he Is demonstrate
Ing to our satisfaction that his desires
have rot led him astray.
Mi. /. T.. Van Pattcn. of Portsmouth,
enc Of the best Informed men in regard
10 the national game in the State Of Wiz
Sinia. said early in the season that Nor
folk was a 500 team. inc up to the
present time Mr.. Van Patten has proved
himself n true prophet. The Brooms
have been lowering above and below
the 800 mark for a long time now, but
seem to be unable to climb higher. VIII
they do the trick during their present
home series? If they 40 not their
CHANCES for Il good position in the race
are exceedingly hopeless.
1t was very evident Yesterday that
Mcfarland was not in shape To pitch.
From all appearances he was a sick man
and the rol.cy Of the management in
nuttinE him and kecY:nE him In after
the pounding he got in the cary innings
Is questionable. To say the least. ard
Is not iustitlab!c. The patrons Of the
game go ont to SEQ the team win and to
see every effort made to'that enc. the
action OF the visitors in taking on,
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