The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-21
.LEAKE' s Blenders
STRA|CHTEN|NG0UT.
Lawmakers Sent Mills's Aggrc-
CATION to the
Brush.
SCORE THIRTEEN TO FIVE.
sl,affcr's Crowd Showed Up Well
III the Exhibition Game.
Baltimore To-day.

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Ever baseball fan loves to see the
home p1ycrs bin the horschide often
and Il nothing else has been accom-
plished by the exhibition Of games on
the diamond here the La lawmakers have
certainly given practical demonstra-
tlon OF sphere swattngs.
!. Yesterdays game with Milss Ashland
aggregation went to the Shaffcr bunch
OF ballooglsts by the scorc OF 10 to S.
and while the eight innings that the
Rlchmonders were working III was pass
Ing away, sixteen hits were being chalkcd
up OH their side Of the tally sheet.
And they were UP against Leakc. too,
l.eake, the future physician, who knows
how to bend them. who has speed
a<-plenty and who doesn't lose his head
very often, was doing the slab work fer
the Ashland bunch and sixteen good
hard blngs were secured off him. i.
Shelter for the Lawmakers. allowed
two hits in three innings, Rlddclmosscr
vas swatted four times In an inning and
half, and Eckstone, the man who
didn't set anything on fire at the last
rs me, eased tho crowd down with one 1T
tie measly blff In five Innings
He Hit Them All. M
Titman did his good work With the
willow again. lie was at The bat five
times and is credited with four hits. Two
OF the swats were scratches, but they had
to count. And TO Offset these, one drive
was for two sacks. The only time that
the right-fielder for the Richmond crowd
didn't get against the leather for a. safe
one was when he sailed ono 10 center
and had It pulled down.
The game, while not an interesting
Z one. was an exhibition game well worth
going the way to zee. Ashland started
the fun by sending Cross out to open.
He did the jiu jtsu act and hunted, And
then he beat the little dinky one out,
Boone sacrificed nicely, but Phillips got
5 II. the way of ball that he struck with
his hat. He was called out and Mills,
the erstwhle heavy siuggar, killed a few
microbes In the atmosphere
Charlie Shaffer sent Titnnn 70 the ru1b I
Der to start the Lawmakers right, and
1r,man opened with good bling. Cuddy
popped one to Icake, who missed It and
both men were safe. Sharp and Hicks
both ozoned according to Mr.. Linford,
who was ut the time the umpire. and
Betscher biiIed right on the snook
good one Ttman and Cuddy came over
and shaffcr drove one to the free coun-
try for two sacks. forcing Betscher to
srike the rubber. Rose went out from Sc
cond and the first inning was over with
the Richmond bunch hanging on to three
tallies
An error by Swift at third, a two-base
swat by Titman. single by Cuddy and
two-sacker from Sharp's willow. brought
two runs over for the Lawmakers In the
second inning.
Eckstone Held Them.
Then things stopped happening SO rap
idly until the NTH inning when Mills's
bunch got on the lenders from Riddles
moser's nit Jordan and Winston led off
with singles. Leake walked, Cross famed
and Boone got transportation. forcing in
Jordan. Phillips got scratch hit. scoring
Winston and Ieake. Mills brought
Phillips and Boone over with biff Of
the horsehide to right garden. Bache
walked and about the time that Swift
was coming up, after five runs had been
made Eckstone. the Memphis HooliGan.
walked into the box. From that time
It was all off In the scoring line,
In the sixth Richmond sent three men
over and In tho ending of the eighth five
men touched the l1o:.<..1late.
Charlie Shnffer was coaching his men
all through the game and at one t!me
spoke rather hnrshly to Shelter who
failed to cover the first sack when
ball was knocked between first and sec
ond. Again Charlie called out from the
bench. loud enough for the grandstaad
to hear him. to player to do something
for him.