The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-10
Richmond Team Recovered
Its Batting Eyes and Pulled
Down a One-sided Victory
Before a Large Crowd.
GAME SLOW BUT HAD
SEVERAL PRETTY PLAYS.
Fisher Was in Fine Form and
Had the Visitors at His Mer-
cy from the Start-WiIter-
mood Looked Good to Fans.
(sY TORT.)
Richmond g: T. It's 2.

The Richmond team, which has
been suffering with an acute attack OF
lost batting eyes, recovered Sunday
and sponged up Athletic park with an
aggregation known as the Indianapo-
lis Taste Tells It was tight game
the first six innings, Notwithstanding
the fact that the Quakers battered
Pitcher Mason OF the visitors out of
the box in the fourth Nine hits in the
first four innings only netted the To-
Gals two runs, which was only one
more tally than the Dark Brown
Tastes had at that stage of the game.
In the seventh the Taste Tellers tied
up the game Miller singled to left,
then Hoffman and F'iddick died on
easy outs. Leslie at bat looked like a
dead duck but he flew TO right field
and Cunningham dropped the ball.
The little ourfielder promptly re-
trieved it to Cameron to catch the
speeding Miller at the plate, but Fish
er intercepted Cameron's relay TO Jes-
sup. for some unknown reason. and
Miller crossed the pan with the tieing
run.
Cunny Redeemed Himself.
In the last half of the seventh the
locals started in to put the game in
their bat bags. Justice started the raj
~ with clean single. Jessup hit into
a fielder's choice and Justice died at
second Miller flew out. Minzler drew
a base on balls. Then Cunningham,
to redeem himself for allowing the
Dark Brown Tastes to sew up the
game, stepped to bat and poled a
sharp double 10 left center, scoring
Jessup and Minzler. Fisher hit
sharp one TO Niebergaul at second.
who missed it and Cunningham trotted
home Ritter popped out.
Hard smuggling in the last of the
eighth netted four more runs for the
Ouakers. Wiltermood drew pace on
four wide ones. Cameron flew out.
then Justice came to the rescue with
a double, bringing Wi1termood home
Jessup advanced Justice to third with
a single and both romped across the
pan on Miller's singing two-bagSer
Miller was run down between bases af-
ter which Minzler singled and scored
on some wild heaves made by the VS.
itors. Cunningham made the third
out.
Several Pretty Plays
The game was slow and uninterest-
ing but there were several pretty plays
executed by the locals. In the third
Manager Jessup stole third while the
catcher was returning the ball to the
pitcher. 1t was a desperate and pretty
piece of base running. After purloin-
ing third Jessup attempted to steal
home. but was caught with the goods
by a close margin. In the sixth Rit-
ter drew base on an error AS he
started TO steal second Wiltermood. the
new outfielder. connected for single
and without a pause Ritter continued
on his way until third base had been
reached This h4t and run game net
ted nothing as Cameron made third
out. Justice. Jessup. Miller and Gun
ningham did great work with the stick
and all of them played a fast fielding
game Miller beat down line drive, +
recovered the bali and threw the run
ner out at first. This spectacular play |
Furnished the crowd a real thrill
Fisher in Fine Form.
Fisher pitched for the locals and he |
had the Dark Brown Tastes at his
mercy from start TO finish. Only /
seven scattered hits were made off his +
.offerings and eight of the visitors
were famed by the southpaw. Fisher +
was also as steady as a clock, refusing
ITO issue a pass to first. Wiltermood /
in left field looked good TO the fans. /
He did not have a chance in the field, I
but showed up nicely at the bat and on
the bases. Score: