The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-17
MISS ELITES BOYS
MAY ACT WELL
They Cannot Play Bali Remark
able Game Yesterday
Afternoon.
scoREKEEPER's HARD LUCK

Place-Richmond, Virginia. s
Scene-A large field with four bags
and piece OF rubber placed on It.
Time--Alay IS, 1905.
The play opens with nine chorus gentle
men before the footights Behind the
scenes are seen nine other men.
Eenter one Richard Duke, the umpire.
He struts across the stage to the box and
takes up q position behind a man VINO
was called Brill. Brill twists his sides
and throws the ball. 1t goes half way
over the rubber. The ball would have gone
the other part of The way If a bat hadn't
wiggled. But the bat wigGles.
It Is all of from thenceforth.
Barton goes In to twir He couldn't
see the plate. Clark got spiked and went
to the bad. Kent believes that he can
see q plate, but forgets It's not supper
time.
Only five men were released from the
batter's box after he started the business
OF doubling himself up In cute llttle
knot and making his bow to the audience.
Hal Clements and Galway Herbert, the
leading man, and the Henglishman, :e-
spectively, jumped out on the grandstand
and started to coach. That was tho be-
ginning OF the end. 1t was all off after
wards, for Kent had resigned his Job
at short and stuck his toe on the slab.
He pitched ball that dropped to tho
ground after 1t had gone Its pushed dis
lance. And his control was all right.
The only thing about him was he couldn't
move the catcher, and the home plate
around to suit his peculiar twisters, The
uuntette OF Richmond Brownies walked
to the first sack, stole the second, tho
third and the fourth sacks and then
asked to be given cridit In the ofilcl Al
score for good base running.
Couldn't Touch Sphere.
at Broad Street Park, Tho Elfle Fay
Bijou company, which closed here this
week, was to have gone against Albert
Anthony's Brownies. Things went along
very nicely until tho Broad Street PARK
was reached, Then the game started.
There were several who forgot 1t was
Wednesday and not Thursday and Jour-
ncycd out to sec game of ball. They
looked at baseball and that was all.
Hulaher pitched for the Brownies. ana
he aid let Clark and Fay get @
single each In tho fourth inning. But
neither one put his tootsle-wootsie on the
rubber.
Jimmie had his drop breaking and
even when he wanted them to hit It they
wouldn't,
Master Brill of the pitou Company,
did the twIring at the first but he was
soon released for incompetcncy and Juve-
nile Kent took his place on the slab.
Mr.. Kent was good ball player when
he was woung, lie has forgotten The
game!
When the sixth inning was Just ending
and the Brownies were chalkng up the
thlrty-ninth run, the scorekeeper went
out to see his sick step-uncle and from
this time on all is q blank
The Brownies had fourteen men to
wiggle the willow In the third inning and
eleven of these fourteen. spiked the plate.
Ten more came over In the following IN
ming and after this everybody scored.
Umpire Richard Duke was taken out
of the box and put on third base and
Mister Bender called balls and strikes.
Mister Duke did the Hamilton stunt at
in emitting the box score, charity is
shown to all OF Elfle Fay's aggregation
Of ballologlsts, Ff