The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-20
POLICE TROUNCE
P0STMEN SOUNDLY.
In Baseball Clash Between Fed
eral and State Forces Blue
coats Win.
POP TATE IS HERO OF GAME
POP TATE is HERO OF GAME
Grand Old Man OF the Gam
Shows Flashes OF Old Form.
The Other Stars.
, baseball team representing the Pc.

A baseball team representing the Po-
lice Department. of the city shattered
n;ne representingU Uncle SANS wards
in the postal service In game play
red at Broad Street Park yesterday hf-
ternoon. the proceeds OF which were
donated to the Police Benevolent As-
ISOLATION. About 1000 people witnessed
game as the league teams sometimes
play 1.-THE Chinese variety In unsul-
lied yellowness. The bluecoats APP
peared to be the favorites from the
start and SO fully Justified expecta-
lions that the crowd out OF sympathy
FOR the letter carriers changed adj
l1erenoe and rooted for the gray
coats of the postal service. The two
mines appeared In a motley array OF
uniforms, and Pop Tate, somehow and
somewhere managed to find one to fit
his willowly figure to advantage.
AS result of the violent and un-
usual exercise of the players on both
teams many applications for sick
leaves and Burroughs may be asked.
The police finished the seven innings
with total of IS runs and Is hits
and Just S errors. while the post-oflice
boys had I runs, hits and errors
The cops swiped 10 bases and the post
| men 4.
Among the crowd In attendance were
many politicians of every degree. In
Guiding many not seen at q ball game,
in years, and most OF them rooted
for the policemen. Dignihed jurists
GLASSES were represented in the crowd
which thoroughly enjoyed the eXhi-
bition. It was worth the admission
to see Pop Tate catch and Right-Fieid-
Ter Green. of tho postnlen. run. Mr.
Green would have made the sprinter
envious had they seen his great work
as he whirled around the bases. and
when 1t came to chasing flies In right
| field he had a chameleon whipped a
mile. CentreFielder Kauffelt surpris-
| ed himself and everybody else by'
catching long ny from Tate's bat
| In the last inning.
Gather Nunnallie, Of the postmen.
| appeared to have a rubber glove from
the way in which tha ball bounded
from his clutch, He. led both tho
teams in errors. but piucklly stuck %
1 his work. He made no effort to shoot
| the ball to second, prefarring q sure
thing to a. long shot.
Policeman Mel Follses looked rs -spry
and chinper as n siXteen-year-old in
his close-fttins uniform. He was very
much disgusted the first time he was
called out on strikes and insisted that
Umpire Still must he blind. rs he had
nothing. but high ones. but he was
not alone in preferrtng high halls.
The eager batters reached for every
thing in sight. hence the few bases
/ on balls.
the hitters for both teams with four
bingles In five times up, but Pitcher
aRed" Warmer cracked out a two
Dagger and then a long triple. AS q
pitcher, he gave Chrlsty Matthewson
and Rube waddell a close run for the
honors z Tho curveless wonder sped
/ them over In great shape until his
i arm began to show the effects Of the
strain. His old skill in rock battles
4 stood him In good stead as u pitcher
! He famed ten men IN seven innings
and allowed only nine hits. The post
men could not touch him for three
1 innings.
Third Baseman Miller was the stal
of the postmen He made two hits ir
4 four trials, scored two runs, stole
three bases and accepted four chance:
without error. Manager Bradley. Q,
the Colts has his s, eye on on hin: =
4 to use their clubs. AttwO-h base hit. E
4 three-bngger and several errors gave
Them i've runs. In the next rount
q they got six runs on three hits. Z
! was in tho seventh, however that thu
cops dubbed Pitcher Doughty .;
1.-Two Dagger four singles and tw,
passes @netted SIX. runs. The pollc'
might have made 1t ten, but got tire,
Fop rate showed the white feathe
ard promptly declined challenge Z
4 team, explaining that he had been sui
4 aciontly amused The veteran shot tts,
down to second in his old, style, an,
nlpped not a few nttemnted bag-thefts
Il On the bases he was frisky as q Two
year-old colt and stole bases !' as thoug !;
he had never i stoned PLAYING ri, ht'
i Hara.i diagyara of ,tha-rasnA rls