The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-07

with everything as lovely as
speckled puppy. than which there is
nothing more pulchritudinous, and the
goose hanging SO high that it could
not be seen with the naked eye. the
Colts went through twenty-one in
ntngs yesterday afternoon without
letting a Bug float across the home
plate There was nothing 10 both
games but sclntillation. fast, saappy
scint,llation, that made the grand
stand sit UP and take notice ard the
bleachers howl like wolves in Siberia
incidentally. Richmond broke even in
rhe double header, taking the first
game, thirteen innings. by the score
OF to o. and dropping the second
when, on account of an error and a
couple OF hits. and two or three other
things. three Bugs came across with
the middling.
For the first time in a long time the
wise heads back of the press stand
had nothing to say that sounded like
bone.head or dubs or any other of the
choice phrases that are SO frequently
used The Colts played like ringers on
college teams before pay day. and that
is the scintillatingest playing that is
MOI Oil sopPOt "dS NaoSSu ~!
twenty one innings. and the way the
hits came a. opportune times made
Squire Graves think of the halcyon
days of the league that knew Pop
Tate.
yerbout in the Box.
Jack Verbout undertook to shuttle
the cards for Richmond in the first
game, and he shuffied like Mississippi
River gam bier all the way through
thirteen innings Not once during that
time did he loosen for the fraction OF
tally, and Steve Griffin and his hus-
kies couldn't reason the matter out
worth cent.
When the casual spectator comes to
think OF 1t there was never a time
during the whole of twelve innings
that either had an opportunity to make
killing. and although both went at
the thing like Michigan lumber Jacks.
the elusive benders had bent before
the stickScame around for the winning
hit. and the winning hit wouldn't come.
In the twelfth inning Verbout under
took to win his own game. and slammed
one In the centre field where Sullivan
couldn't possibly get under it by mere
running. Everybody thought it was
Verbout's monthly three-bagger. and
the grandstand yelped. Sullivan thought
otherwise. however, and when he saw
that he couldn't make the switch by
running, he dived at 1t, and with his
body almost horizontal, picked up that
fly with one hand and had it when he
came up.
In the thirteenth inning Shaw got
his name in the paper by smacking out
s neat single as could be found any
where. He went to second on an error
by Schrader, and when Bunting
slammed out the hit that broke up the
game Shaw came home with the win
ming run.
There was some delay in beginning
the second game, and the rumor had
It that Griffin, wouldn't play. because
GGrn however, s d IL ai take til thatS view,
of matters. and before the teams
went to the field he yelled at tho
grandstand. This one will be easy for
II seems that Umpire westeryelr
and did not want to work. because a
game would throw him late. There
fore and whyrore the kick. Lawlor
and Griffin both sat on him hard, how
The III second game was nothing shor,
ofssthe first one in point of sclntilla-
tions. Everyb ody was working hard,
and although Revelle allowed moro
hits. or at least a higher percentage
of hits. than Verbout did there was
nothing much doing,
NJ In the fifth lnning RichrnonG thought
the game had been carefully laid away
on Ice when with fDobson on second
and the crowd thought sweetly OF
taking three out of, four from Dan.
VILE. pobson got to first on q base
on balls and was sacrificed to- second
by Ess saa 3,nea cane Meigsits Whs
laid against She ball for two solid
ba IS, Dobson came home on the cres,
of the wave.
Then for four innings there was
less doing than there was in old Man
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