The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28
STANDING of THE cLUBs.
WHERE THEY PLAY MONDAY.
Richmond ut Norfolk.
Roanoke mt Dnnville.
Petersburg nj Lynchburs.

With the grim light of high re-
face. the Petersburgers. vitn the aid
of an outheld pitcher. managed to
make 1T an even break with Ricnmond
yesterday afternoon. just to snow the
hordes OF Petersburg fans that there
was some life in the Oh team. that
hadn't been either drowned bS rain
bat,ers Jack Nerbout WAS The i.,.-
willing goat that was led TO the
slaughter In the first game. and sam
Edmundston. who has iai!ted a5odt
the North and West all suaiiue;. wus
the coaquerer in the secoad. The
scores were: Petersburg. 2 %, AID
Richmond. o-6.
Few There at First.
The first game started with tne
slimmest attendance OF the season.
and the Petersburgers. who came 20
see what could be done. felt exactly
like they did wnen at home IN tic
Country Club park. There was an
mir OF louesomeness about the place
that augured Ill for the payrolls. and
the noise sounded more like Peters,
burg picnic than anything else in the.
world Before the game was over.
however. the regulars came IL. forca.
and the noise that Petersburg made
Ut the beginning OF the game. which
sounded as II there would be some
hostile roofing. became lighter and
lighter In comparison, until II finally
died down to whisper, when badly
thrown ball in the eighth nning OF
the second game scored the last two
Richmond runners.
Having made such brilliant suo-
cess with Chunk on Thursday Jack.
GRIM decided to let another outhelder
handle the first game and put PUTNAM
in the box Putnam was true to all
promises made. There was nothing
on the Richmond team that looked as
II the run-getting clout could be-
pulled down. True. Bunting ham
mered out double-bagger in the
ninth inning, but there was really no
feature of the hit that could over
come the blank spaces in the score
board, and except for the empty honor
OF putting one out for two bases.
Bunting got nothing. In fact. Put
man held the whole blooming bunsh
down to four hits, and only two Of
them came before the ninth inning.
Mr.. Collins Appears.
Collins, the crack third paseman OF
the Collegians, was on third Tor Pc
tersburg In both games, and although.
make a bad showing Although he
could not manage to get single hit
in both games. he handled himself
rather we'll in the field and made sew.
eral difficult stops that brought down
the house. y
Petersburg started out for blood IN
the first inning and got It before Rich
4 mond had doped out plan OF cans
paign. Mcfarland. the second man to
face Workout, slammed out a double,
Dagger and was advanced on kirk
patrick's out. Then Bunting undertook
ITO handle q bad one that came from
4 Chunk bat, and while he was dallying
with the ball Mcfarland came home
like a. stray comet @
Putnam kept the Colts as worried rs
the owner of q dog with fits for three
Innings, and the general plan was for
three men to come to the bat, knock
little pop flies and scratch grounders
to where a capable man was waiting
for It. and then trot out into the field
sRgain. In the fourth, however, there
came rift In the clouds, and II real
NV looked as If there might be some-
thing doing. Clayton, with two men
out. ccepted a free pass to first and
Wallace hit. The first hit Of the game.
4 Before the cheering died down, how
ever. Bunting sent an easy fly to centre
Neld and the Jig was up.
Game Hack Strong.
In the fifth Petersburg came back
strong again when Smith opened the
\ ballawith q sweet clout. Then Haunt
ian took one between the shoulder
blades and pushed Smith aheao. "A. sac
rifice moved both up q peg. anu the
@)urf looked about as high as the city
Hall Mcfarland sent an easy one to
clayton, however. and Smith was
hailed to the doorplate as dead as a
herring. kpaatrick sent NJ ono at
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