The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-17
HITS AND ERRORS
|. MARK FIRST GAME
WITH JAY BIRDS
The Trapped Weather Was
Relieved Somewhat by the
Heated Nature of the Slug
ging Match.
RODENBACH SENT TO
JIMPSONS AFTER FOURTH.
The Hitting of Bitz, the Jay
Left Fielder, Was the Feat
ure of the Game-The Off
ciaI Score.
The Score Thursday.
Richmond. 3 OO3 o 3 o o x-9
Portland ...3 / o 20 o Is

In trapped weather Richmond and
gagement Thursday afternoon at Ath-
letic park, the local demons winning by
pounded the horsehide all over the
premises, there being total of 2S hits.
The game is best described as weird.
Combined with the numerous hits
there were thirteen glaring misplays
committed by the two teams. Not
withstanding the numerous errors, the
game was interesting from start to fin
ish
Cupid Rodenbach opened the festiv-
tiles for the locals and his delivery
was fractured in twelve places by the
Jay county visitors. AT the close OF
the fourth inning with the score 6 to
3 in favor of our demons, Jessup
chased Mr.. Rodenbach to the jimpsons
and substituted Mr.. B. Horn, who sue
ceeded in holding the Portland outfit
down to six hits. With the score 8
to 3 in favor of the locals at the close
of the seventh. Portland made a gal
1anti tieffort TO save Hne ga1n3 from the
lost column and nearly succeeded in
doing SO. The Jays made two tallies
in the eighth and in the ninth after
two were down they got runner
across the plate for the eighth run and
the $50 bugs began to hear funny nois-
es under their hats. Mr.. Horn, know
ing that one more run would tie up the
contest gave an imitation of a fox and
forced the slugging Mr.. Parker to die
on an easy out, Justice to Cameron.
Three Each to Start.
Portland scored three runs in the
opener by laying down stingy little
bunts, which the heavy Mr. Rodenbach
could not handle. Then couple OF
infield errors. committed by Jessup
and Cunningham, assisted the Jays
Our demons in their half of the first
started in to even things up and sue
ceeded well. Mr.. Cameron started
the joy by polling the sphere to deep
left for three bags, then Thomas Plum
mer scored him with a single Mr.
Durham, who won home in the Hall
of Fame last Sunday by crashing out a
homer, stepped to bat and accumulat-
ed more space in said hall by hitting
the ball on the biziz for another three
bagger. scoring Mr.. Plummer. JUS
tice, our valiant second baseman, tied
the score with a single to right. The
side was then retired.
In the fourth Richmond made three
more runs and then added three more
in the sixth. Our demons only made
10 of the 2S hits. but all of them were
timely and the Jays fortunately made
their errors during the bingle-fests of
the locals The feature of the game
was the hitting of one Bitz. the Jay left
fielder. and catcher. Bitz hit the
Spalding on the snoot five times for
three singles. a double and three
bagger. The infielders on both teams
had a hard winter owing to the warty
condition of the diamond Cunning
ham. Meredith and Justice notwith-
standing this handicap, played their
positions in most admirable style and
J. Cameron, reformed polo half back, |
held down first base in most crafty
ing manner. The official score runs
like this: