The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-11

with the Blues Band yanking out OF
unwilling instruments the syncopated
Htrains of the earliest American two
sstep and the two baseball teams play
iing baseball just as prize fighter
istalls through six-round bout with
the hope that 1t Will end as quickly as
possible. the Virginia League baseball
iseason closed yesterday afternoon with
! Richmond the high card In the wins.
lbut a rather low hand in tho percen-
ttage column. The fact that the Colts
lwon the first game and tied the Sec
ond made no difference In the percen-
f1age column. and the official close OF
1.-The season arrived with the fifth place
occupied by none other than Richmond.
1.-THE first game went to Richmond by
1.-THE score of to 4. and the second was
Ia to 0 tie in seven innings.
/ The games yesterday were rather
lmore Of a tollification than anything
else. Every player on the two teams
was thinking a great deal more OF
what train he could get out OF Rich
mond for home than OF baseball. and
they played accordingly. In the first
game Roanoke managed to create
seven errors, which were largely re-
5ponsible for Richmonds win. and
Richmond came up strong with three.
Richmond has rarely experienced, and
the twelve hits in the first game
lclincfed the bottom place in the per-
lcentage column for Petersburg.
Four Thousand See Finish.
Although there was hardly d cor
porals guard present when the first
game began, the crowd rapidly filed
lin the grandstand. and when the I'm
sish of the second game came there
were almost 1000 people present to
see how the end came The coming
of the 1000 was more custom than
anything else. and the enthusiasm was
1 about as slow as narrow gauge road
I'm the Virginia mountains.
Incidentally Shaughnessy was put out
OF the game for missing a pot shot at
Umpire Westeryelt, The putout by
the umpire came in the first game, but
did not last through the double
header In the seventh inning Shaugh-a
messy was called out Mt first when he
was absolutely certain that he was
safe. In the very same inning Shaugh-
messy fumbled an easy fly. due. OF
course. to nervous irritation, and when
he recovered the ball he was so peeved
about the matter that he tried to mas
eacre Westeryelt with the ball. And
from right field. too. The ball missed
westervelt by about eighteen yards
and for the miss Westervelt ordered
6haughnessy to the bench.
IN the intermission between the
games shaughnessy apologized very
handsomely for his bit Of temper. and
Umpire Westervelt, after pinning a
hoi,quet OF roses to his manly chest.
reinstated him, SO that he was able to
be In the tie game.
started With Rush.
IoNua11 FOR Roanoke, started Off the
batting list In the first game rs II
sthe Tigers were outlfor the goriest
gore there is. Powell landed on the
first ball that Verbout sent over for a
three Dagger while the Richmond we'll
5xyfshers (there are no rooters any .more)5
.Yroze in their seats, The next two
,Roanokers died gracefully, but Holland
'potted a single that scored Powell
Holland died trying 70 steal second,
same frst inning when Shaw potted
INT a single, stole second, and came
nome an an error by Newton. Wallace
got to first on that same error n but
the inning closed when ,buff 11 cG 1aft
3heRIa Roanoke made another try for the
irame in the fourth inning. when New
ton landed on the p and ter sinE Sie
Rressley's hit was really no HIT but
There wasssro one on first to receive
the throw and he was safe, Newton.
TRIED to stretch the hit for another I,
mag and was caught between pas ss,s 4
Pressley gotsto second on the rum olt,
hnd when Schmidt hit he scored With
That run made Richmond mad, and [,
1.-The way they went after the Roanokerss
mad the Roanokers wonder What had
lstruck them, Clayton opened the
fracas with a hit, but was thrown ont
lat second Then Wallace hit, went to
ON Schmidt's error Titman WAS hit
with pitched ball and Dobson hit.
Scoring Bunting. Then coWanE clonted
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