The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-24
Virginia League
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
Richmond, a; Portsmouth, 1.
Ronnokc, 8, Dnnville, o.
Norfolk, 81 Lynchburg, S.
STANDING of THE CLUBS.

With carload of luck that would
have put any seventh son of a seventh
son TO shame for lack of credentials,
q fielding team that gobbled UP every
thing in sight and Psnurious Ports
mouth sitting disconsolately on the
debit side OF the fortune-teller, Jack
verbout pasted one more win to his
credit yesterday by the score to /
A technical hit by Titman and a three
Dagger by the same worthy, combined
with bone-head play that made the
dogs bark, and an error that made the
fans weep, did the work. Beg pardon;
there were two bone-head plays. The
dogs laid down and died OF want when
the first was pulled off. and forgot TO
bark at the other.
The Portsmouth gang started out to
win with the stick and nothing else,
but they ovcr-played their hand. II
is necessary to catch fly in deep left
field, even IL there are no men on bases.
that is, of course. II the team is TO be
retired and this Chunk forgot to do
on one occasion. Later Baker, who
hit the fly, scored on phoney hit.
Kept UP His Speed.
Vail started out like bull terrier
after a blind ferret. and three men
in the first inning bit their teeth with
rage when they hit where the ball was
palpably absent Also he kept up the
speed and all that kind of thing un-
til the last man was out He bent
them sideways and on the ground up
in the air and about the ribs, and the
Colts were as much at sea as light
ming bug in bee hive
But, O, Gentle Reader. there was
nothing doing for Portsmouth
verbout was tapped to standstill
for nine luscious hits. and only when
three Of them came in huddle in one
small frame did the Truckers manage
to slip one pale faced runner across
the plate, and he was scared to death
at his prowess. No matter where the
hit went, no matter how hard 1t was,
there seemed to be a fatality about the
matter, and the hitter would be thrown
out, so that the funeral procession
might have unimpeded progress.
The hitting on the part of Ports
mouth began promptly In the first in.
ming when Toner clouted out for a
two-bagger. Guiheen made good on a
swift one in the next. and SO it went
until the eighth box, when there
SeelHGu W NC q letLiIi u ~ Ell lHASo3AA
the densely packed Portsmouth
clouds.
In this box Smith opened, with one
man out, by Shaping the ball on the
flank and lifting 1t just over Land
CRAFTS head Vail, by way OF variety,
put a similar little attention over
shaw's head. making two on the bags.
Bowen answered the shrieks of help
from his country, and slammed out a
good one that scored Smith. Then Old
Man Hard Luck sat on the Portsmouth
diaphragm and went to sleep.
Dropped An Easy One.
In the fourth inning Chunk forgot
his lines and dropped fly that looked
SO easy Baker didn't like to exert
himself on 1t. Baker wandered around
the bags on outs until Titman came
up and stabbed the sky with fly
that might have hit the catcher II he
hadn't moved back He needn't have
moved, for all that hone In his head
would have protected him from 9
twelve-inch she'll The pitcher also
moved back, presumably to give the
| first baseman a show at the matter
and the first baseman made Crane
run for 1t. The ball slipped out or ms
! hand, and it had to be hit, Just az
Baker came home. Bone? DO tell.
In the sixth Mr., Smith, who pre-
sided behind the bat for Portsmouth
revealed another ton Of ivory Just un'
der his hair when he left wild pitci
to cuddle against the grandstand
while two Richmonders cantered oVel
the plate He was so busy carrying OF
a joint debate with the umpire as K
whether Wallace, who was battlns
should get his base on hit or bas'
on balls, he couldn't go after the ball
Before the matter was decided, Land.
graft and Baker had scored.
| In the seventh came the only really
truly run that Richmond was entitled
To- Tltman landed for a three-b aggel
| that was a 1nellifuous stroke. and ar
ter weary waiting was drawn home o.
1 Bigbie's sacrifice fly.
That was all. Except, OF course